nvidia "D8E" High End solution, what can we expect in 2008?

Away said:
Look at the chip (G92-450-A2)

Could it have a larger bus or something like that ?
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8 RAM-chips -> 256 Bit.

But G92-450 imo could mean higher clocks as GTS 512MB (maybe for the 9800 GTX) and lower-voltage for the 9800 GX2 -> a better selected G92.
 
isn't the middle part (G92-xxx-A2) just to differiate different cards, rather than anything meaningful regarding clocks or such?
 
Kaotik said:
isn't the middle part (G92-xxx-A2) just to differiate different cards
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Sure, but why 450 and not something like 350 or 370? ;)

8800 GS (G92-150) < 8800 GT (G92-270) < 8800 GTS (G92-400) < ? 9800 GX2 (G92-450) ?

8800 GTS (G80-100) < 8800 GTX (G80-300) < 8800 Ultra (G80-450)
 
AnarchX said:
Sure, but why 450 and not something like 350 or 370? ;)

8800 GS (G92-150) < 8800 GT (G92-270) < 8800 GTS (G92-400) < ? 9800 GX2 (G92-450) ?

8800 GTS (G80-100) < 8800 GTX (G80-300) < 8800 Ultra (G80-450)
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Maybe the number just represents the "quality" of the binning. A score, as it were.

Jawed
 
That's just too boring, there is not even much stuff I can read at all (LOL can't even be a happy lurker). Slow year indeed...
 
We're almost a year and half beyond G80's release and still no real overhaul / refresh of the architecture. just respins and different configurations.

With a year of NV40 / GeForce 6800 release, there was a major overhaul / refresh of it, the G70 / GeForce 7800.

This is why lack of highend competition from ATI sucks.


If competition had been stronger, ATI's R700 would've been out fall 2007 (R600 was due fall 2006) Nvidia's highend refresh NV55 / G90 would've been out last fall also. We'd be getting respins of those this winter, and looking forward to next-generation R800 & NV60 this coming fall.
 
Plenty of time for Fudo to change his prediction yet - his reports about power consumption will probably go up and down a few times before he finally settles on a figure. ;)
 
Megadrive1988 said:
This is why lack of highend competition from ATI sucks.

If competition had been stronger, ATI's R700 would've been out fall 2007 (R600 was due fall 2006) Nvidia's highend refresh NV55 / G90 would've been out last fall also. We'd be getting respins of those this winter, and looking forward to next-generation R800 & NV60 this coming fall.
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I take it you really haven't been watching/listening to the GPU industry recently.
Since R700 was first rumored it has been targeted for a mid '08 release, rumors first started in '06. R600 was started back around when R300 as released which makes me assume that R700 was started around R420 times. Start to release takes roughly 4 years for GPUs.
 
LordEC911 said:
I take it you really haven't been watching/listening to the GPU industry recently.
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ouch...

Since R700 was first rumored it has been targeted for a mid '08 release, rumors first started in '06. R600 was started back around when R300 as released which makes me assume that R700 was started around R420 times. Start to release takes roughly 4 years for GPUs.
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not .. quite

this is a quote from sept 2003 http://www.neoseeker.com/news/story/2771/

"The R500 "is" the R400, which was cancelled early this year. There are many reasons to this, among which the fact that ATI didn't feel they could deliver the R400 in the required timeframe, which is Q1 2004 ( it seems the August 2003 timeframe was either BS, or that it had already been delayed a bit before getting cancelled. ) The R500, thus made by the same team which worked on the R400, might of course have more features than the original R400 design had, because, well, it'll only be launched in Q4 2004, best case scenario."
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Ati only has/had two design teams (marlborough / silicon valley. one team kept developing the R300 base (R350, R420/80, R520/80) and one team worked on R400 (R500, xenos, R600)

Rumours about possible delay of the R400 architecture based on Mr. Orton's statement started to emerge around the Web after the story had been published in BusinessWeek. Furthermore, Dave Rolston, ATI's VP of engineering said during the Goldman Sachs Technology Investment Symposium in late February that the R350 graphics processor (or the RADEON 9800) "will ensure ATI's leadership position on the market, at least, in this calendar year", what also could allude observers on the fact that we are not going to see the next-generation high-end graphics processor from ATI, dubbed R400, this year, but it will only come out in July 2004, approximately 24 months after the R300 was announced.
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The thing is that, with the continuous postponement of R400 all schedules have basically been messed up until R580+ was finished.
 
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