NVIDIA: Beyond G80...

Well.. we'd have to see.. I can imagine mid range cards to be so bottlenecked one way or another because of the way the first generation of dx10 games are coded that the benefit wouldn't be all to clear when the first benchmarks arrive

Yeah but it certainly can't be any worse than a legacy architecture can it?
 
Heh but that would apply across the board and not just to mid-range cards :)

True, but I don't think the focus on the first two quarters of dx10 is anything about low-end and midrange.. or do you actually WANT to run something like Crysis or, god forbid, Unreal Tournament on a lowly mid-range card? I think it will be a crying game for most people that assume that their mid-range dx10 cards are that much faster than their older high-end cards.
 
Ah I see what you're saying. Yeah it will be interesting to see how lower end unified hardware in general does against its more seasoned brethren.
 
Certainly NV at least has put together two midrange parts in a row that were very impressive performers at release, 6600GT and 7600GT. It will be interesting to see if the hypothetical 8600GT can live up to that trend.
 
Looks very much like a filtering problem, but the bad JPEG compression makes it difficult to see properly. Do you have an uncompressed version?
 
I present to you.. 8600 Ultra! and a bunch of others
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=130015

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:High-end market :

GeForce 8800(GeForce 8900)——​
R600 (publication indefinitely)

:Mid-level markets :

GeForce 8600Ultra——Radeon X1950XT​
(RV670 Q3 next year after the date of publication)

GeForce 8600GT——​
Radeon X1950Pro (RV630 release date in May next year)

GeForce 7600GT——Radeon X1650XT


GeForce 7600GS——​
Radeon X1650Pro. Radeon X1300XT

And low-end markets :

GeForce 8300GT——​
RV610 series (launched in May next year) Radeon X1650Pro

GeForce 8300GS——​
RV610 Series

GeForce 7300GT——​
Radeon X1300XT. Radeon X1600Pro, XT, Radeon X1550 and so on.


Thats about it, the return of the ultra moniker?

This could potentially indicate that the 8800ultra might exist waiting for the R600.

Or this could all be hoax. :LOL:

 
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That chinese website lists it as G83. Too bad no such thing exists... :)
I also find it amusing that they predict lower clock speeds for what should be the mid-end offering, when that one is most likely on the 80GT process node, while the low-end would likely be on G instead. FWIW, that was one of the ways NVIDIA got from from 430MHz for G70 to 650MHz for G71, afaik.

As for G84 and G86, you'd assume at least one of those two (probably G84!) is using GDDR4. Any leak which doesn't take that into consideration is most likely random bullshit, sorry to disappoint.


Uttar
 
That chinese website lists it as G83. Too bad no such thing exists... :)
I also find it amusing that they predict lower clock speeds for what should be the mid-end offering, when that one is most likely on the 80GT process node, while the low-end would likely be on G instead. FWIW, that was one of the ways NVIDIA got from from 430MHz for G70 to 650MHz for G71, afaik.

As for G84 and G86, you'd assume at least one of those two (probably G84!) is using GDDR4. Any leak which doesn't take that into consideration is most likely random bullshit, sorry to disappoint.


Uttar

Scalar ALU Clocks weren't a factor in G73 and NV43... ;)
 
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