Guess the name of the vid card

[requiem99]

It might look something like this.

Hello everyone. :)

[digitalwanderer]

WHERE THE HELL DID YOU GET THAT AND MORE IMPORTANTLY I WANT MORE DETAILS NOW!!!


Sorry, I got excited....hi back atcha and welcome to this forum. (Don't I know you from somewhere else too? :confused: )

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You can check out the .jpg deleted from the above post at me icky yahoo briefcase-thingy (http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/hayho@sbcglobal.net/vwp?.dir=/digs_online_digs/mystery_card&.dnm=nv40.jpg&.src=ph&.view=t&.hires=t). Sorry, I hate the briefcase-thingy too...but it's all I got. :(

[requiem99]

Yeah I post on rage3d every now and then. I hate that site. It attracts children and lamers worse than Planetquake.

[requiem99]

You're pretty trusting too, who's to say I didn't just photoshop that score to create a ruckus?

[volt]

Could it be a photoshop job? :rolleyes: :D

[digitalwanderer]

Originally posted by requiem99
Yeah I post on rage3d every now and then. I hate that site. It attracts children and lamers worse than Planetquake.

Yeah, it must be the Mom in me that keeps me going back there....that and the whole "ATI-thing". ;)

Originally posted by requiem99
You're pretty trusting too, who's to say I didn't just photoshop that score to create a ruckus?

No one, I just trusted it for some weird reason on a gut-level when I saw it....that and your name was familar to me as one I knew/sort of trusted.

Is it real?

[SurfMonkey]

Hmm, looks like realistic scores but for the fact that the NV40, to the best of my knowledge, hasn't even taped out yet. Unless of course nvidia have been really sneaky and this is one of their record number of tape outs from last year ;)

[digitalwanderer]

Originally posted by SurfMonkey
Hmm, looks like realistic scores but for the fact that the NV40, to the best of my knowledge, hasn't even taped out yet. Unless of course nvidia have been really sneaky and this is one of their record number of tape outs from last year ;)

Or it could be an R450/500 too, ATI might be sneaky having something up their sleeves...he is from R3D and all. :eek2:

[Uttar]

The NV40 hasn't taped-out yet.
I don't know if we should expect that much of the NV40. My guess is that it's mostly a technology leap, with maybe 30-40% higher performance. Maybe 50%, who knows.


Uttar

[requiem99]

Even if you guys guess it (and you might have already) I can't tell you what it really is. All I can tell you is the image is not modified, and its not an NV40, per se.

Thats all I can say.

[digitalwanderer]

Originally posted by requiem99
Even if you guys guess it (and you might have already) I can't tell you what it really is. All I can tell you is the image is not modified, and its not an NV40, per se.

Thats all I can say.

Dare I guess a R400 MAXX? :p

[SurfMonkey]

My god!, it's the bitboys voodoeon fx tnt nuclear dawn card running at 4Ghz and it's own private power station... *sigh* I always wanted one of them. Just couldn't find a country big enough to store the box in.

[requiem99]

Surfmonkey: Thanks for the friday morning laugh, I needed that! :p

[SurfMonkey]

Go on give us a hint ;) Canadian or Californian?

[Sazar]

Originally posted by SurfMonkey
Go on give us a hint ;) Canadian or Californian?

they both are based out of california for all intents and purposes... :D

ati is canadian in its roots...

[SurfMonkey]

Nah... I doubt the NV35 will break 8K. Unless it's had porridge for breakfast.

[digitalwanderer]

I'm just happy to hear that cards exist now that can crack 10K in 3dm2k3 for some weird reason. :)

[SurfMonkey]

Originally posted by Sazar
they both are based out of california for all intents and purposes... :D

ati is canadian in its roots...

I guess they are now with ARTX on board. But we could just pretend Canada for ATI and California for Nvidia.

[Sazar]

Originally posted by SurfMonkey
I guess they are now with ARTX on board. But we could just pretend Canada for ATI and California for Nvidia.

I love palo alto btw... :)

had a ncie drive round the silicon valley section and around stanford's campus... what a lovely town... but flippin expensive as sin...

[Lezmaka]

Well whatever it is, it's got some weird scores...

Here's those scores compared to a 9700 Pro (http://www.beyond3d.com/articles/3dmark03/tests/index.php?p=2)

9700 Pro
Mystery Card

GT1
147
156.1

GT2
29.7
105.6

GT3
26.8
76.0

GT4
26.4
52.4



Ok... so it only gets 9fps over a 9700 Pro, yet more than triples it in GT2, triples it in GT3 and doubles it in GT4?

[Uttar]

Well at least, the final score is correct according to the test scores...

3DMark03 score =
(Game Test 1 frame-rate x 7.3) +
(Game Test 2 frame-rate x 37) +
(Game Test 3 frame-rate x 47.1) +
(Game Test 4 frame-rate x 38.7)

156.1 * 7.3 = 1139.53 = 1139
105.6 * 37 = 3907.2 = 3907
76 * 47.1 = 3579.6 = 3579
52.4 * 38.7 = 2027.88 = 2027

= 10652


Strange, strange...
NV40 didn't tape-out AFAIK. And the R4xx might have been cancelled, not 100% sure.

Then there's that "did ATI tape-out something recently?" rumor- so... Hmm...

Or it could be a smaller player - but I don't quite see who'd be able to get that much.

Either it's a darn well researched & done photochop job, or it's for real, or it's for real but it's a ridiculously overclocked version of a card or another ( 750Mhz NV35 could maybe get that much, maybe )

Heck, nVidia had 600Mhz+ NV25 samples, so it could likely be something that'll never go in real mass production too.


Uttar

[DadGT]

Originally posted by Lezmaka

Ok... so it only gets 9fps over a 9700 Pro, yet more than triples it in GT2, triples it in GT3 and doubles it in GT4?

Doesn't seem to me particularily odd that it performs so different in some kinds of tests. GT1, IIRC, is basically all DX8 calls While GT2, GT3, and GT4 start to use shaders and such. So what this would really indicate is that the "simple" pixel pushing power of the card isn't drastically more, but the shader components and other DX9 features are much more powerful.

[mikechai]

Hi requiem99,

Why you post a title "NV40 preview benchmarks" but say it is not NV40?
:confused:

And volt, are you just guessing or you do know it is NV35 ?

Michael

[SurfMonkey]

It's not NV40, and it looks far too high to be NV35. And I don't think ATI have anything that beefy yet. So it must be...

[Sazar]

Originally posted by Uttar
Well at least, the final score is correct according to the test scores...

3DMark03 score =
(Game Test 1 frame-rate x 7.3) +
(Game Test 2 frame-rate x 37) +
(Game Test 3 frame-rate x 47.1) +
(Game Test 4 frame-rate x 38.7)

156.1 * 7.3 = 1139.53 = 1139
105.6 * 37 = 3907.2 = 3907
76 * 47.1 = 3579.6 = 3579
52.4 * 38.7 = 2027.88 = 2027

= 10652


Strange, strange...
NV40 didn't tape-out AFAIK. And the R4xx might have been cancelled, not 100% sure.

Then there's that "did ATI tape-out something recently?" rumor- so... Hmm...

Or it could be a smaller player - but I don't quite see who'd be able to get that much.

Either it's a darn well researched & done photochop job, or it's for real, or it's for real but it's a ridiculously overclocked version of a card or another ( 750Mhz NV35 could maybe get that much, maybe )

Heck, nVidia had 600Mhz+ NV25 samples, so it could likely be something that'll never go in real mass production too.


Uttar

lol... come on.. either its photoshopped or that test is being run @ another resolution... it is the professional edition after all is it not ?