Nvidia and ATI's new midrange speculation

[anzak]

Now that Nvidia and ATI have released their new high end cards how long till the new midrange cards are announced? My budget it limited to $200 so these cards will fit the bill. From what I here about ATI's new midrange card it will be a high clocked 4 pixel pipeline card on 11u, if this is true it could cause a large gap between the midrange and high end cards. I have not heard a thing on Nvidia's new midrange.

[mikechai]

How about a 8 pipe NV4x card with 256bit bus at $199 ?

[anzak]

How about a 8 pipe NV4x card with 256bit bus at $199 ?

That would be great with PS 3.0!

From what im reading, the NV42 (budget) and NV43 (midrange) will only be PCI express. This sucks because I have no plans of upgrading my mobo or processor any time soon.

[mikechai]

According to a previous roadmap :
By Q3/Q4,
NV45 - highend (3x5950)
NV41 - highend (NV40 in PCI-Express) (2x5950)
NV43 - performance (2x5700U)
NV44 - value (3x5500)
All pci-express.

AGP version unknown.

[Casper]

X800se 8 pipeline 199$ too...

[Geforce4ti4200]

the agp market is too pervastive to abandon it that soon. heck we still see pci cards such as the fx5200 and mx440 and I think theres a 9600se in pci as well. I do know the x800se is comming out but its no good because of its 128 bit ram, even the 9700 pro would be faster anyway. .11 microns sounds very sweet but with 4 pipes its low end in todays world but if around $100 could be a very good replacement for the 9600xt and overclock crazy high, may even be able to match a stock 9700 NON pro. x400 it might be called

[MUYA]

PCI Express market won't be a dominant one till 2005 late...methink I mean how many ppl can afford brand new PCI express mobo/cpu/graphics cards etc? Not even corps will do it. ...... them pci express gpus/cards will be available in AGP flava thro the bridgechip.

[anzak]

Budget: high clocked 4x1 cards
Midrange: high clocked 8x1 cards
Lower high end: semi high clocked 12x1 cards
High end: High clocked 16x1 cards

Thats my best guess on how things will turn out.

I do hope that the bridge chip will be used for AGP support and AGP users wont be stuck with only high end products.

[zakelwe]

If they can do a 2x 5700U for similar price then that would be good.

Regards

Andy

[anzak]

Could this http://it.enorth.com.cn/system/2004/05/10/000780612.shtml be the X300 or X600.

[nobie]

Hmm won't it be up to the board manufacturers to produce AGP versions if they want? I'm sure if the damand is there they'll do it.

[anzak]

Any information yet on if these cards will be sporting 256mb of memory? Since the X800se and 6800 non ultra will not be supporting 256mb of memory this would not surprise me. If not I guess the Radeon 9800 pro 256mb or XT will have to do.

[Viral]

Of course the mid-range cards (and even low end) will have 256MB of memory, remember, they were the first to do so.

I think it will still come as an option thought..