NVIDIA GF100 & Friends speculation

I am a bit surprised that Nvidia is supposed to have taken the we-etch-stuff-into-our-GPUs with their high-end again. G80 and GT200 were completely plain.

 

It is quite often, given most cited prices in US dollars lack VAT. That added plus the usual premium we old worlders pay, it turns out to be true quite often. Or wasn't HD 5830 supposed to be launch at 229 US-$?
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/preisvergleich/?cat=gra16_512&asuch=HD 5830&v=l&plz=&dist=&sort=p

 

The USA doesn't have VAT we have sales tax but it varies by state. Also I don't pay any sales tax when i order from another state (though i think they are trying to change that)

Some states have no sales tax. Some like New Jersey where I live is 7% however there are sections in new jersey with 3.5% sales tax.

Its my understanding that VAT in Europe is much higher than sales tax here.

 

No cards shipped yet huh? Would explain the deathly silence so close to launch.

 

Maybe paper launch with paper boxes quite literary.

 

I've let someone else do the calculation for me.

If we take the package size from the Tesla documents (42,5cm) the die size ends up at around 23x23. That's where the number comes from.

 

I found the original picture, no need to zoom...

No it's not.

H: 2.30

L: 2.30

 

If the numbers are small, you can ship them out at the last minute. 5-10k cards you can get around the world in the last week. A couple of pallets on a plane for each country...

 

GTX4X0 3Dmark06 benchmark leak:


http://www1.uwants.com/viewthread.php?tid=9547178

 

Hmm.. thanks.. But still if you zoom the other one.. Its 100% NOT clear that they are all zeros. The left and right characters seem to be the same, but NOT the middle one. Something is fishy here, for me.

 

You're actually legally obligated to do this, but there is no mechanism.

 

Gotta get them to AIB's then there's branding, maybe some sort of testing, packaging and then it has to make it out to retailers. Doesn't look to me like there'll be any retail stock on the 26th.

 

Can you post the screenshot?

 

I already posted....

 

It didn't load.

 

Yea , I think its a bullshit law. IF i went to the state and bought something I wouldn't have to pay tax when I entered new jersey.

 

screenshot

 

Nothing is fishy here. That one that you zoomed in was exactly the same image that I hosted at a bigger res on imageshack. Look at the url of you image, it has a "thumb" somewhere. If you delete the last part of the url, you will get to the bigger image.

 

Independently from 3DMark06 being a synthetic benchmark, performance seems to be good, keeping in mind a HD5870 reaches a 20k score only. Is there any reason for this to be related also with rumoured memory advantage? For some reason I dont see 3DMark06 being that memory hungry, as it was released almost 5 years ago.

 

3DMark06 is a CPU benchmark nowadays,HD5870 can reach over 25K with 4G i7....