NV30 = Geforce FX - NO DOUBT!!!

[JonathanM]

Just posting the URL as it's gonna be falling off the main page soon: http://www.warp2search.net/article.php?sid=8485

[suburbanguy]

Nv30/GeForceFx is sounding less and less impressive by the day IMHO. I'll hold off until I have a rough idea of when Nv35 is coming out and what performance/features it is likely to have.
I am not getting a NV30/GeForceFX based video card since it's only going to have a 128-bit bus, (and now seems likely to have less triangle performance than R300) It's likely though, that NV35/GeforceFX2 will move to a 256-bit bus.

My speculation is, it is also probably very likely at this point, in terms of performance, that NV35 will be to the NV30 what GF2GTS was to the original GeForce.

To be fair, I can say the same about R300 and the rumored R350.
R300 has 256-bit bus already BUT it only has 1 TMU per pipeline.
R350 should bring that to 2 TMUs per pipe thus 16 TMUs in total, equaling NV30. (just speculation)

If R350 and NV35 are coming out sometime in 2003, I will get one of those. The extra performance can only help in games like DOOM3. It's usually a wise decision to buy the REFRESH of a new GPU architecture, rather than buying into the first iteration.

[thcdru2k]

i'll probably do the same..doom 3 ain't coming out for awhile anyway. and i don't think many games will come out in between now and doom 3 to really push videocards.

[nutball]

Originally posted by budd_wm
You're wrong....I can also give a clue to something else about the card: 64...that's all I'll say. ;)

64-bit memory bus!!! WOOHOO!!!

:p