Nvidia G92 will push the limits to 1 TearFlop

[Harvik780]

So to compare .. ATI's R600 is like 450 GigaFlop. But in all honesty .. many roads lead to Rome and there are many ways to interpret the measurement of a Gigaflop. According to le Inq NVIDIA says it's G92 high-end graphics card will deliver almost a teraflop of computing performance.

In an analyst webcast, Nvidian Michael Hara says that the chip will be ready for Christmas, a release cycle the company adopted with G80, where high-end products come out for Chrimbo and the mid-range and low-end products hit in the spring.

This suggests a couple of things. One, that the delays we saw to the release of Nvidia hardware through 2006 and 2007 have now been factored into the schedule, to a point where we're going to see yearly updates of the high-end part every Q4. This is pretty nifty. Second, Nvidia doesn't see the benefit in releasing all three ranges of cards together, preferring to let the 'halo' effect of the high-end card provide a few months of advanced marketing for the mid-range parts.

Second, it puts DAAMIT between a rock and a hard place. AMD is readying Barcelona, and Intel is preparing its own native quad-core chip in Nehalem to hit at the same time. ATI will be prepping the R600 refresh for the end of the year and Nvidia will be hitting with the GeForce 9800. Tough stuff.

The actual power of G92 might surprise some. The 8800 can rustle up about 330Gflops, which means the green team is suggesting that the 9800 could be three times more powerful. If that's true, the question remains - why bother? What games are going to take advantage of that? If the answer is Crysis at 2560x1600, Nvidia better hope that the game doesn't slip much further than it already has.
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[abhijit_reddevil]

Hmmm...Everyone does not yet have the Geforce 8 series and now the geforce 9 series gets ready. good news is that the 8 series prices might drop.

[sabret00the]

hmm "Technology"...uff...it changes before u even blink...in just another few months my brand new 8600GT is gonna be obsolete..ha ha

[Harvik780]

Heard that AMD ATI is building a firesteram feature for their graphics cards.

[rajasekharan]

man , just give me loads of money , or sometime .

come on , this computer thing is emptying my pocket like hell.
just when i thought i had a decent comp to play games and all , another game comes and destroys the hopes . and another hardware rises the next DAY of my purchase...

DAMN , i hate this industry...

[gxsaurav]

^^^^^ Deal with it. i am still running my 4 years old FX 5900XT with Vista. Forget the tech man, think about what you need. If you look, u don't need anything beyond a GeForce 8600GT for the next 3 years.

In other news : nVidia G92 will require its own power plant

Both ATI & nVidia graphics card can do a lot of work, well..fine. But they seriously need to consider decresing the thermal envelop if these cards.

[praka123]

PSU=800VA next? for these future cards or separate psu

[sabret00the]

Originally Posted by gx_saurav

^^^^^ Deal with it. i am still running my 4 years old FX 5900XT with Vista. Forget the tech man, think about what you need. If you look, u don't need anything beyond a GeForce 8600GT for the next 3 years.

Very well said bro...that's a fact considering my monitor supports upto 1440*900 resolution wat will do with a card better than 8600GT...true

[QwertyManiac]

Nvidia and Nokia are making me confused with their model names. Both companies name appear similar while scanning and now its G92 and N92.

[gxsaurav]

Originally Posted by QwertyManiac

Nvidia and Nokia are making me confused with their model names. Both companies name appear similar while scanning and now its G92 and N92.

Lolz...Imagine talking to your gf with a GeForce 6600GT next to your ears.

They both sounds same though...whine whine.

[Harvik780]

Well actually the reason for the AMD ATI HD2000 series having so many shader units is that AMD ATI wants to compete with the nvidia's G9X series GPUs in shader performance.Though the stream processors are more in AMD ATI HD2000 series but the stream processor clock is slow due to which it currently gets beaten by the G8X series.However expect better performance in the future by the HD2000 series from AMD ATI cause they will definitely outperform the G8X GPUs in intensive shader usage scenarios due to more stream processors.

[nvidia]

i think the G92 Graphics cards wont be released within this year... plus such a card would require AC rooms to keep it cool and half of your house power the only plus point is that 8800 may become affordable

[Harvik780]

Originally Posted by nvidia8800

i think the G92 Graphics cards wont be released within this year... plus such a card would require AC rooms to keep it cool and half of your house power the only plus point is that 8800 may become affordable

Yes they will be released this year only and by September as of Nvidia's own board specific implementation.But i can just hope ur correct.But there's a big reason why nvidia will try to release them.Just like the case of the Geforce 5 series.

[blackleopard92]

i heared that nvida/AMD are working on external graphics solutions for future to tackle heat and power issues. that mean, u would now have a seprate power plug for GFX card!!

[gauravakaasid]

i guess in another 2 months time, this 1gigaflop thing will be revised to 2gflops! even am starting to hate this industry.....just read news of ps4 right here
what abt the job openings in this industry??(wen u cant beat them, join them )

@Bobby...leme know wen ur card becomes obsolete, am ready to take it

[xbonez]

whoa! don't the guys at nvidia ever sleep?

[rajasekharan]

i seriously dont want amazing games ........
i dont want amazing graphics card..........

i want , i want , i want

my 7600gt to last for a couple of years more and plays all the games superbly well at 1024*768 res . and let there be no graphics card killer games be released

so that, so that, so that


these money hungry card manufactures stop producing cards like this and make the devil inside me saying "go get it man...."

[sabret00the]

Originally Posted by gauravakaasid

@Bobby...leme know wen ur card becomes obsolete, am ready to take it

Well u'll have to wait for another 3-4 years for that my brother..ha ha

http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/show...postcount=2680

[Harvik780]

Originally Posted by sabret00the

Well u'll have to wait for another 3-4 years for that my brother..ha ha

http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/show...postcount=2680

Finally some good performance by the Geforce 8600.

[meajmal]

wen i bought my 6 series to run vista especially...thot it mght be sometime befre i chnge it..nw...the 6 series is out...7 series is out...and man 8 series costs as much as a house nw....wht crap is this...

[gxsaurav]

Why are you guys worried? Your graphics card does everything & will do everything for many years to come. It took 4 years for Microsoft to jump from DX 9 to DX 10, it will take more with DX 11 because DX 10 is a new tech, they will simply optimise it more in form of DX 10.1 & 10.5 etc.

If you are buying a new card & computer then just get a DX 10 based 8600GT/2600 HD with 256 MB RAM if you are a gamer running games at 1024X768 (mostly).

If you just want a graphics card to run Windows Vista, then get a DX 10 based 8400GT/8500GT/Radeon 2400 HD or even Intel GMA X3100/X3000.

If you already have a DirectX 9 based graphics card like nVidia Geforce 6 or 7 series or Radeon X1400/X1600 with 256 MB RAM, then stick to it. No need to upgrade. DirectX 10 games are not out yet & these cards will hold DX 9 games easily along with Windows Vista.

[nvidia]

it does not make any sense to say that it will take the same time to move from dx10 to dx11.... it only depends on the reliability of the current version in use.... so if dx10 does not come up to the mark dx11 may come out faster!!!!!!!!!!

[faraaz]

Ideally when choosing a video card, it is important to me that the few games I play run at over 30 fps because that's movie quality speed IIRC (or was it 25 frames?? Talking about PAL here...)

Therefore, any card that lets you play a game at oh...I dunno...300 frames per second isn't really worth it...having said that, I am very happy at the moment with my ATI Radeon X1600 and am NOT going to upgrade until there's a game out which uses DX-10 ONLY and will only run at like 4 fps on my current card at any rate.

In the foreseeable future, I can only think of Dragon Age, Spore and Bioshock as games that I want to play. Of the above, Bioshock is the only one that can merit investment of that nature...and even then, its available on an XBox 360. So I'm thinking...why bother?