nVidia The Power of 3

[Slappi]

http://www.nvidia.com/page/home.html


Wonder what that means?

3 Cards in SLI?? :confused:

[angshuman]

Now, wait a second. Deja vu! Wasn't there a thread about this yesterday? A couple of people replied, and I added a reply too. I checked today, and the entire thread had disappeared! I did a search on the string "Power of 3" as well as on my own posts and... nothing! Could it have been on some other site? I really doubt it... can anybody back me up? Or maybe I just need sleep :o

Angshuman

[Slappi]

Now, wait a second. Deja vu! Wasn't there a thread about this yesterday? A couple of people replied, and I added a reply too. I checked today, and the entire thread had disappeared! I did a search on the string "Power of 3" as well as on my own posts and... nothing! Could it have been on some other site? I really doubt it... can anybody back me up? Or maybe I just need sleep :o

Angshuman



Go back to sleep :p


What do you think it means?

[angshuman]

Here's the list of guesses that I recall from the mysterious missing thread:
- 3-way SLI
- SLI + SM3.0 + HDR (Somebody seemed pretty confident about this :D)
- GeForce 7300

Edit: More guesswork at http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/showthread.php?t=22352

[ThreeDeeMark]

Now, wait a second. Deja vu! Wasn't there a thread about this yesterday? A couple of people replied, and I added a reply too. I checked today, and the entire thread had disappeared! I did a search on the string "Power of 3" as well as on my own posts and... nothing! Could it have been on some other site? I really doubt it... can anybody back me up? Or maybe I just need sleep :o

Angshuman

Yes there was, I started it, was just looking for it and couldn't find it either...

Cheers,
Mark

[BrianG]

No one has guessed right yet. ;)
Come on Chris, spill it...

My assumption is a slam at ATI for not having an SM3.0 part yet. 7800GT should be revealed at QuakeCon, it just makes sense. This makes for yet another card released with SM3.0 before ATI can reply. Still no Crossfire, still no R520 specs, this is kicking when their down, and I like it.

[Slappi]

opps

[|MaguS|]

I think it could be the power of PS3! :D

[angshuman]

Definitely has something to do with the "Old vinyl records, old typewriter" etc. line...

Now, who would buy an "old" card? Someone who believes they are good value for money, of course. So, maybe nv are going to launch some product(s) at shockingly competitive prices... say, a 7800GT PCIe at $300 :eek: so you wouldn't even think about a 6800GT???

Or, an affordable mainstream 7300 at $120 that rivals the performance of a 6600GT?

Edit: I find it very intriguing that Mark's thread was deleted...

[|MaguS|]

What thread?

[angshuman]

Mark's thread... sorry, edited it.

[shabby]

Yes there was, I started it, was just looking for it and couldn't find it either...

Cheers,
Mark

Ya where is that thread, looks like one of the mods deleted it boooo :thumbdwn: :D

[ChrisRay]

Come on Chris, spill it...

My assumption is a slam at ATI for not having an SM3.0 part yet. 7800GT should be revealed at QuakeCon, it just makes sense. This makes for yet another card released with SM3.0 before ATI can reply. Still no Crossfire, still no R520 specs, this is kicking when their down, and I like it.

Well. Consider marketing... and well consider marketing your best aspects. ;)

[angshuman]

Well. Consider marketing... and well consider marketing your best aspects. ;)
That would be SLI, SM3.0, HDR...

But wait a second, all that is NV40 territory! This is 1-year old technology. What's with all the sudden hype about it now? They should have done this at the 6800 launch last year :confused:

[jAkUp]

Power of 3 is not a new product.

[ThreeDeeMark]

That would be SLI, SM3.0, HDR...

That's what Chris posted yesterday in my (presumably) deleted thread.

He was 100% sure :)

Yes, it all all NV40 ground, but it's also supported on thre newest graphics card to hit the market (7800GT), and is something that ATi STILL can't support.

Cheers,
Mark

[Graphicmaniac]

could be sm3.0 sli and pure video

[FraGTastiK]

I think nVIDIA is doing a very nice job by showing people the "light of 7800GT" helping them out not to make a stupid decision and go for a SM2.0 card just because its gonna be titled a newly released mainstream card.

or

an even more stupid decision that is going for dual graphics card solution on a dated architecture (SM2.0 part).

[Ywap]

One could hope it´s the dual core support drivers. The power of two cores + one gpu...

It´s probably not, but it would be sweet (popcorn)

[angshuman]

One could hope it´s the dual core support drivers. The power of two cores + one gpu...
That's not bad at all... I wouldn't even call it a cheap marketing stunt. Power of 3 is actually quite appropriate in this case :)

[Zelda_fan]

I bet it's going to be triple monitor gaming like matrox did several years ago. Except now we finally have a card with the power to do it right.

Either that or it will be 3 new products in the product line.

[Delbert]

One could hope it´s the dual core support drivers. The power of two cores + one gpu...

It´s probably not, but it would be sweet (popcorn)
Nice reasoning.... sounds like the most plausable so far.... NVidia did indicate that a new driver would include support for Dual core CPU's....

[BrianG]

One could hope it´s the dual core support drivers. The power of two cores + one gpu...

It´s probably not, but it would be sweet (popcorn)
Yes please.

[Namrok]

It's a longshot, but RSX tech on the PC?

Ah who am I kidding, thats crazy talk.

[angshuman]

Uh... I thought we already had RSX tech on the PC... G70.