Next gen comming in about 3 months?

[PeterJensen]

Weee another rumor :p

Had a longer chat with a buddy that works at a graphic card maker (take a guess i cant tell :o ).
He talked about dual core cards and nextgen cards from Nvidia in about 3 months.

Well its only what he said, take it like you want ;)

[PeterJensen]

"i think probably the G80 will bring you 48 pixel pipelines 24x 2"

[FraGTastiK]

Weee another rumor :p

Had a longer chat with a buddy that works at a graphic card maker (take a guess i cant tell :o ).
He talked about dual core cards and nextgen cards from Nvidia in about 3 months.

Well its only what he said, take it like you want ;)

Leadtek? ;)

[PeterJensen]

Leadtek? ;)

European :)

[FraGTastiK]

Leadtek isnt European?(Oh nvm its .tw and based in Taiwan)

POV/Galaxy/Gainward?

Gainward?

Do we have a Dansih AiB partner?Need to look that up. :D

[PeterJensen]

Leadtek isnt European?(Oh nvm its .tw and based in Taiwan)

POV/Galaxy/Gainward?

Gainward?

Do we have a Dansih AiB partner?Need to look that up. :D

Nope, no danish AiB :) And it aint POV/Galaxy/Gainward. But annyway, the rumor is more interesting then the make of the card ;)

[FraGTastiK]

Yea ealry G80 release.I hope your buddy is right. (nana2) (nana2) (this nana guy is addicting)

Club3d? :D

[jolle]

Alright when you say "Dual core", do you acctually mean dual core or do you mean Dual GPU cards.. 1 card with 2 GPUs on it, or 1 GPU with 2 GPUs in it.

[Marvel_us]

Inquirer begs to differ.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30624

[MUYA]

g80 has been reported to haved taped out. Maybe inkwell were refering to further spins..ie more speed bins / layout changes to the ASIC etc

[PeterJensen]

Alright when you say "Dual core", do you acctually mean dual core or do you mean Dual GPU cards.. 1 card with 2 GPUs on it, or 1 GPU with 2 GPUs in it.

Well i really dont know what he means. I just quote what he said :o But what is the chance that Nvidia made a dual core GPU, like dual core CPU?

[Brimstone7]

I was under the impression that there was no point to a dual core GPU because modern GPUs are massively parallel in the first place...

[diablomonic]

there is "some" point to it (in my non expert opinion which could be wrong):
1) with normal SLI cards need individual memory, ie 2 512 cards in sli not equal to 1 1gb card. by closely incorporating 2 cores, perhaps memory can be shared. also communication between them can be much quicker if they are on the same die
2)if an approach similar to intel's "stick two seperate cores next to each other" is used, if one is dead, youve still got another working one. (same as disabling quads to go from high end to mainstream part when a quad isnt working). Actually this works even if they are on the same die if they can be disabled seperately
Basically comes down to, is the (possible) performance loss of using dual 24 pipe cores worth it, due to the (again possible) ease of implementation, in comparison to making a true 48 pipe version ( which is almost the same thing anyway).

[jAkUp]

I don't think G80 is going to hit until Fall time.

[nutball]

*sigh* Honestly I wish this dual-core GPU nonsense would die the death. Next people will be telling us that NVIDIA will be adding "threading" to their GPUs. :rolleyes:

Dual-core on a single die make no sense -- GPUs are already multi-core this way and have been for years.
Dual-core in the Intel sense (two physical chips in the same package) might help improve yields a bit, but adds to packaging costs and doesn't solve the memory bandwidth issue.
Dual GPU graphics cards with independent memory buses -- helps solve the bandwidth issue -- but we already have these cards, why are people so excited?

Really people, "dual-core" is meaningless in GPU-land.

There really is only one exciting possibility for "dual-core": a "dual die" solution, ie. two physical chips in a single package, one of which is a GPU and the other of which is a stonking great piece of RAM. A la Xenos. Wake me up if and when this happens, otherwise *please* when someone mentions dual-core in a GPU context :POKE: poke them in the eye with a stick.

[bkswaney]

I don't think G80 is going to hit until Fall time.


Yep... The G80 will be the fall release along with Vista.

I'm building a whole new rig with a Intel Conroe and 2 gig's of ram getting
ready for Vista. It will have a G80 in it and SLI ready. :D (nana2) :p
My twin 6YO boys are getting the rig I'm running now.
It should do them fine for a while. The games they play
do not need a super fast gpu anyway. Most are online games. "Nick,Cartoon network etc"
This 6800 ultra still has a lot of power with a good cpu to push it.

[MUYA]

*sigh* Honestly I wish this dual-core GPU nonsense would die the death. Next people will be telling us that NVIDIA will be adding "threading" to their GPUs. :rolleyes:

Dual-core on a single die make no sense -- GPUs are already multi-core this way and have been for years.
Dual-core in the Intel sense (two physical chips in the same package) might help improve yields a bit, but adds to packaging costs and doesn't solve the memory bandwidth issue.
Dual GPU graphics cards with independent memory buses -- helps solve the bandwidth issue -- but we already have these cards, why are people so excited?

Really people, "dual-core" is meaningless in GPU-land.

Ditto...I have stopped trying to explain why multi core or dual core is nothing to excited..as it is already a feature in GPUs!!!... well sorta..

G80 should be about innovation...DX10 compliance yes..but otehr stuff they can throw in to make the visuals better for less of a performance hit and balance teh costs too :D

[dustinf7ga]

bkswaney,

What mobo are you using for the system you're building? Is there a mobo currently available that will be compatible with conroe that also has sli (preferrably with x16 to both slots instead of x8)? Or are you waiting till new mobos become available?