NVIDA 90nm GPU is selling allready!!!

[Sunday]

http://digitimes.com/print/a20050915A7036.html

last answer!
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the product:
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/akiba/hotline/20050917/image/ng611.html

 

[Fodder]

2 pipelines, damn.

Was thinking one of these would make a nice core for a slim little A64 rig, but now I doubt performance will be quite up to scratch. Guess reviews will be up soon.

 

[Fate]

As long as they start slow & ramp up, I'm ok with that. Or they might end up like ATi did.

 

[Pete]

Anand has already posted numbers. While faster than Xpress 200, it's still meh.

 

[trinibwoy]

Anand has already posted numbers. While faster than Xpress 200, it's still meh.

Being faster than the Xpress 200 is the only reason for its existence (and to bring in the $$ too of course).

 

[Dave Baumann]

Its kind of a curious situation they have left themselve in here. Gaming performance is not really what these boards are about, its Vista performance that is telling - Vista's interface is Shader 2, but with SM3.0 NVIDIA are paying for some feature overhead. RS600/RS680 are suppesed to be "X700" based, which is obviously Shader 2 - presumably ATI will take what they save from not adopting shader 3 and increase the number of pipelines.

 

[Rys]

Its kind of a curious situation they have left themselve in here. Gaming performance is not really what these boards are about, its Vista performance that is telling - Vista's interface is Shader 2, but with SM3.0 NVIDIA are paying for some feature overhead. RS600/RS680 are suppesed to be "X700" based, which is obviously Shader 2 - presumably ATI will take what they save from not adopting shader 3 and increase the number of pipelines.

I don't really see what they'd be enthusiastic about keeping around from NV3x times, for a SM2.0 IGP part just to have no feature overhead (I don't buy that that'd be a realistic factor either even if they had good performance SM2.0 and 3.0 parts out in parallel, really), for a million and one reasons and certainly not any that are marketing led.

And, IMHO, it's not the only non-gaming IGP that'll have 'feature overhead' come Vista, either.

 

[Dave Baumann]

That was what I was getting at. Frankly, if RS600/680 is Shader 2.x based then, Avivo aside, I can see little point in it if they aren't going to increase the number of pipelines.

 

[Rys]

That was what I was getting at. Frankly, if RS600/680 is Shader 2.x based then, Avivo aside, I can see little point in it if they aren't going to increase the number of pipelines.

Ah! I took what you said the other way around. Gotcha now :smile:

 

[Blazkowicz]

it's a Turbocache without cache, isn't it?

two pipes at 425 or 475MHz still isn't bad IMHO. Imagine getting this in a low-cost notebook instead of the terrible Intel Exxtreme Graphics.

 

[CMAN]

Anything is better than Intel graphics. I have seen strong penetration of ATI chipsets recently at brick and motar stores, hopefully the C51 will have a similar situation.