When Tuesday does the G70 NDA expire?
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_xxx_ said:
according to g_day 30 more minutes
Hanners said:
awwww
dissapointment...that makes it 2pm GMT... or 3 PM Euro time...
Hanners said:JoshMST said:Too bad I don't actually have hardwaremaybe next time...
Heh, join the club.
Hell, strictly speaking I'm not even actually under NDA with NVIDIA, I'm just being polite and fair.
That's very British of you hanners ! Don't cry, keep that stiff upper lip old chap.
Kombatant said:I have to finish up an article for the mag about wireless networks and I am bored, I want to see the reviews already
http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp
or
Google transtation
overclocked
Veteran
The relative low-powerdraw, the conservative core/mem speeds, this smells like an Ultra-model is coming along.
Kombatant
Regular
_xxx_ said:Kombatant said:I have to finish up an article for the mag about wireless networks and I am bored, I want to see the reviews already
http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp
or
Google transtation
I should've said "the reviews from the well known English sites", but thx for making me slack some more with a placeholder until they arrive
Jawed
Legend
overclocked said:
I sense an awful lot of people (tier-1 SLI, tier-2 top single card) who would buy the GTX if it was the top card will be holding off until the Ultra hits. This plays into ATI's hands, because it means less GTX sales. Unless GTX isn't yielding as well as the rumours suggest, and the tier-3 enthusiasts will soak up all the GTXs made.
Jawed
Jawed said:
Tier 3 guys are more price sensitive, so some of them will want to see if an Ultra is coming relatively quickly, and if it will drive the price down on GTX. I do think NV might actually hurt initial sales a bit with this tactic --but then depending on their supply they might be okay with that; takes the heat off of them for not having enuf to go around.
According to the editor of atomicmpc.com.au their article goes live at 9pm our time - 3 minutes ago, when the world wide NDA lifts, and here is their brief article by a forum lurker here
http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/article.asp?CIID=23448
http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/article.asp?CIID=23448
A small excerpt by James Weng from this forum (under a different name)
Each pipeline also can execute two multiple-add instructions in one cycle, twice the rate of the NV40. The end result is that one G70 can often outperform two 6800 Ultras in SLI.
Using SLI, the G70 is a different beast all together. At 1600 x 1200 with 4xAA and 8x anisotropic filtering thrown in for good measure, it managed to score an absurd 10611 3DMarks!
On its new MSAA
When creating game models, instead of describing each strand of wire on a chain linked fence as a dense mesh of triangles, game designers cheat by modelling such geometry as one large rectangle painted over with a wire pattern. What's not painted is encoded in the texture as “transparentâ€. While this technique spares the graphics card of excessive geometry calculations, when it comes to anti-aliasing, the GPU ignores such areas since MSAA only works on polygon edges. The new “transparent AA†mode in the G70 will find transparent textures and tag them to be anti-aliased using supersampling, which smoothes both geometry and textures.
And from 1up
based on tests run using the Unreal Engine 3's Engine CityStreet2 demo, a single GeForce 7800 GTX is faster than two 6800 Ultras running in SLI, by almost 30%
Each pipeline also can execute two multiple-add instructions in one cycle, twice the rate of the NV40. The end result is that one G70 can often outperform two 6800 Ultras in SLI.
Using SLI, the G70 is a different beast all together. At 1600 x 1200 with 4xAA and 8x anisotropic filtering thrown in for good measure, it managed to score an absurd 10611 3DMarks!
On its new MSAA
When creating game models, instead of describing each strand of wire on a chain linked fence as a dense mesh of triangles, game designers cheat by modelling such geometry as one large rectangle painted over with a wire pattern. What's not painted is encoded in the texture as “transparentâ€. While this technique spares the graphics card of excessive geometry calculations, when it comes to anti-aliasing, the GPU ignores such areas since MSAA only works on polygon edges. The new “transparent AA†mode in the G70 will find transparent textures and tag them to be anti-aliased using supersampling, which smoothes both geometry and textures.
And from 1up
based on tests run using the Unreal Engine 3's Engine CityStreet2 demo, a single GeForce 7800 GTX is faster than two 6800 Ultras running in SLI, by almost 30%
Richteralan
Regular
In Hong Kong, we are already at night on Wednesday....
I just went to computer market today and saw Inno3D Geforce 7800 GTX retail boxes(yes, it has the actual card inside ) already in sale.
I just went to computer market today and saw Inno3D Geforce 7800 GTX retail boxes(yes, it has the actual card inside
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