Possbile NV 30 delay? Warning its from The Inquirer!

[Brimstone]

http://www.theinquirer.net/07060204.htm

Who knows? It does seem that the R300 is going to get a good jump on the NV 30.

 

[Grall]

The Inq reported Nvidia was to release new drivers the other day and they didn't show up EITHER! Guess this must be true then!




I think one would do well to take just about anything this "publication" prints with a few scoops of salt. The article purports NV30 taped out just recently, but there is no fact of any kind in it to back that up so we don't know if it's true or not.


*G*

 

[ben6]

Unless something has drastically changed . And I mean DRASTICALLY in the last 2 weeks (note the date of the Inquirer's story), it's pretty safe to say that Nvidia's next part will be DX9 compliant, which NV25 is not in the fall.

One thing they made clear at E3 in May 22-24th (we met on Thursday the 23 or 24th (forgot the date heh), was that high end cards this fall will either be DX9 or not. They in fact made the comment when talking about Matrox's Parhelia. (BTW this was all on the record so I can comment).

Shrug , believe what you want, but it's going to be a interesting fall for all videocard companies.

Here's the comment: "This fall you're DX9 or you're not, and Parhelia is not. "

2nd interesting comment they made on the record was the 2 big things this fall will be DX9 and AGP8X most likely.

It would take a disaster for it not to happen, no matter how many times the Inquirer tries to print the story.

 

[Brimstone]

Bit Boys are you listening? This fall high-end cards are either Direct x 9 or you're not! Don't let us down.

 

[Geeforcer]

Is that the same Inqwell that posted this:

R300 will feature a 350 MHz core that will be built with the help of a 0.15µ process at either TSMC or UMC where they like to "bake" their chips.

Memory will use 128 Bit interface with support for both DDR as well as the slower SRD memory, and with up to 256 MB of RAM on the card.

Cards such as the Radeon 2 will be able to address up to 128 MB of Ram just like Nvidia's Geforce 3. Despite Bill Gates once saying that 64K should be enough for everything, note that 256MB of RAM should be a decent amount of memory for the adaptors that use the R300.

The chip will be DirectX 9 compatible but at this moment we are not aware what Microsoft may build inside this future API. I predict NURBS as variations of B-splines that are present in GF3.

The internal peak of the chip will settle on 75 million triangles per second which will be just fine for future games and engines that will use more than 10000 polygons for characters.

The R300 will be able to render 4 pixels per clock and 2 textures per one cycle which gives 8 textures per pixel. This part is surprising as Radeon can do three textures per clock.

And this:

The card is an NV25 killer while ATI's lower market model the RV 250 which many assumed to be an NV17 killer now has large speed advantages over Nvidia's offering.

While clock speeds are still under waraps, the RV250 will be spawned from the R200, currently branded as the Radeon 8500.

Whle Nvidia is readying its cards for launch in the next fortnight or so, as revealed on Friday, it is still to finish its work to take advantage of DirectX 9.

Samples of the R300 will go to ATI partners in the next two weeks and R&D teams are preparing their card designs.

ATI is positioning SnoBIT 2002 at Hangover, Germany, as the venue for some big introductions including the R300, the INQUIRER learns.

 

[Nappe1]

Bit Boys are you listening? This fall high-end cards are either Direct x 9 or you're not! Don't let us down.

well, those who are interested enough, have already took a peek behind the curtains. when those curtains are pulled away, is still unclear.

and those who are interested and don't know what I am talking about, really should take a look of Petri's presentation information that I posted to old boards and compare it to upcoming DX9 compliant cards specs. (there is something common, as you might notice.)

And those who aren't interested and thinks that Bitboys is full of BS, you are reading wrong post. So, skip to the next post.

I am not saying that they would have something, or they would release it in some exact date, but as said, normally only 5 - 10 % of happenings during new HW development leaks to publicity and I would say that in case of bitboys that percentage is much smaller. (as in positive as also in negative cases.)

so, meaning of this post was?? nothing, I just wanted to tease you.

 

[Fuz]

Nappe1,

I can't tell if are you serious or not, do you actually believe that Bitboys will release a card this year? Or even next year?

How much you wanna bet that there will be no card, no anouncement from Bitboys this year?

Ofcourse I could be wrong, but I am willing to put some money on it... say if I am wrong, I will buy you the top of the range Bitboys card, if I am right, you buy me the top of the range ATI or Nvidia card?

What do you say?

Actuall make that either ATI, Nvidia, Matrox or 3Dlabs top card.... wich ever one I choose at the time. Its going to be a good christmas (lets hope) this year, 4 cards to choose from!

 

[Matt Burris]

Bah, when I talked with NVIDIA about those rumored Detonator 5 drivers Inquirer mentioned (which turned out to be not true) they even told me they have absolutely no idea where Inquirer is getting NVIDIA-related info from, but definitely not from them as the Inquirer likes to insinuate. Just like you can be a successful website and publish things on japanese scat, I guess you can pull rumors out of your arse, post it up, and get attention from it too.

I really think those guys should go work for the National Enquirer or Sun, and post about how cows are having alien babies or something.

 

[KimB]

Me? I'm never going to touch an Inquirer link, let alone visit their website. With the total and utter lack of journalistic integrity they show, I see absolutely no reason to give them any more hits just so I can take a look at some lies.

 

[Gollum]

Eeeek, I just was foolish enough to follow the link and ended up browsing the Inquirer for like 2 minutes before I had enough of them for probably the rest of my life.

Not only that their stories are obviously not always "well researched" (to keep things civil), but they focus on such stupid things too. I read up on the latest 4 or so posts concerning ATI/Nvidia and what the heck - they keep reporting about some Nvidia suit who didn't want a gamecube for his kids because of the flipper, but would take one of he got it for free from ATi or something, yeah I can see how that's an important newsitem to make it apear in 4 reports, D'OH. Since they focus so much on this one topic, it looks to me like it could be the ONLY thing based on reality in their postings - "Yay, look I got a real story!"...

 

[Typedef Enum]

The "MO" of the Inquirer goes something like this...

A. Official drivers haven't been released in some time...They must be close to an official release.

B. We all know of the Anisotropic filtering performance issue(s)...or lack thereof.

C. We have seen evidence of improved OpenGL/Anisotropic filtering...so they must be working on it.

D. They might end up talking to _somebody_ who tells them the obvious: nVidia is working on drivers to help in this area (ya think?)

E. The Inquirer takes all of these things, and puts together an article trying to connect all the dots...despite the fact that the content of the article is totally unfounded.

 

[ben6]

Uh sorry to do this. I just realized I can't say what I said... But expect more information this week

 

[mat]

ben... just a question (if you can answer it)

since you seem to know something... would you recomend to wait for the announcement (i guess something from nvidia) to buy a new card (i just wanted buy a Ti4200 tomorrow but i dont want to waste my money on it if something else cheap is comming soon)?
or is it something that wont happen soon/is just a new/better driver?

 

[KimB]

nVidia's not going to be releasing any new hardware until at least August.

 

[mat]

nVidia's not going to be releasing any new hardware until at least August.

thanks.