Geforce 680 = US$400 millions , RSX ?

[Heinrich4]

David Romam of Nvidia informed at interview to site xbitlabs (january/2005) NV-42/Geforce 6800 cost in development early US$400 millions.

How much it the cost of development the G70 ?

Better... if the GPU ps3 will be based on the G70 (or parallel development) how much Sony would have repassed in resources($$$) for development RSX(any information?)?

 

[overclocked]

David Romam of Nvidia informed at interview to site xbitlabs (january/2005) NV-42/Geforce 6800 cost in development early US$400 millions.

How much it the cost of development the G70 ?

Better... if the GPU ps3 will be based on the G70 (or parallel development) how much Sony would have repassed in resources($$$) for development RSX(any information?)?

Thats the number for the whole line though with all the parts if im not wrong.
G70 i have no idea but i guess the R&D was much lower for one but the total cost as the whole line isnt out yet i dont know. Check up some of the analyst-meetings or their next Quaterly report for that!

 

[Heinrich4]

Thats the number for the whole line though with all the parts if im not wrong.
G70 i have no idea but i guess the R&D was much lower for one but the total cost as the whole line isnt out yet i dont know. Check up some of the analyst-meetings or their next Quaterly report for that!

well observed overclocked and thanx for information , and my intention to know " the quantum" of investment on the previous architecture have been invested for rsx, to determine if really has an (great or less) addition in the performance ( more cost = more improvement ...i know this is very relative but...) in this gpu.

 

[overclocked]

Thanks, there are however some much more clever people at this board when it comes to the numbers. I guess you are after an "estimate" of how much Sony has plunged in to nVidia aswell as the cost for RSX. I think you can search the boards also cause there was some discusions about this for awhile ago.

 

[London Geezer]

Thanks, there are however some much more clever people at this board when it comes to the numbers.

It's true. It's obviously 42.

 

[overclocked]

Someone needs some spanking...

It's true. It's obviously 42.

...

 

[akira888]

I'm fairly certain that the 400m USD figure for research and development covers the whole NV4x/G7X/RSX architectural line, and not just NV42. $400m to process shrink an existing processor sounds absolutely absurd - that would imply that ATI and NV spend billions every year on R&D, since they release (easily) more than 10 distinct new ASICs a year.

 

[ben6]

considering NV's total R+D from last 3 years was in the neighborhood of 730 million 400 million for one product is unlikely....

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