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v3rninater
06-16-07, 01:53 AM
Ya know what I hope, smaller physical size, better performance, run cooler. Nvidia could probably stay with G80 until DAAMIT came out, or had rumors of something better then what they have now.

I'm still curious if Nvidia will come out with a G81 counter part to G80. I haven't heard much rumor, but I will say that I'm waiting for 8950 GX2 dual card. That thing should blow away the G80.:afro:
rhink
06-16-07, 01:05 PM
Ya know what I hope, smaller physical size, better performance, run cooler. Nvidia could probably stay with G80 until DAAMIT came out, or had rumors of something better then what they have now.

I'm still curious if Nvidia will come out with a G81 counter part to G80. I haven't heard much rumor, but I will say that I'm waiting for 8950 GX2 dual card. That thing should blow away the G80.:afro:

Thing is a video card isn't designed overnight, their cycles are 18 months or longer. So you have to plan for a release a year and a half in advance. They can't sit around and wait to react to ATI's latest plans. They start working on a chip, and when it's ready, they release it- simple as that. To sit on the design until ATI popped out with something better than their previous chip would waste a huge amount of money they sunk into the design of the new chip.
Vasot02
06-16-07, 01:13 PM
G80 is the winner

There is no need for Nvidia to launch a new GPU soon
v3rninater
06-16-07, 06:13 PM
Rhink....your right, I guess from what I've seen with the 2900's I guess I just expected more from DAAMIT.
retsam
06-16-07, 08:09 PM
G80 is the winner

There is no need for Nvidia to launch a new GPU soon
actually the only need i see right now is more memory on the GPU's ...i would love for a 1.5gig card to be released by nvidia...
slaWter
06-17-07, 04:50 AM
The better release the G92/G90 by the end of this year. I need a better card since I'm going back to a single card config.
rhink
06-17-07, 03:28 PM
Rhink....your right, I guess from what I've seen with the 2900's I guess I just expected more from DAAMIT.

Yup, I have concerns over what the market will look like if we don't have ATI there to push NVIDIA a little. I think we'd all like to keep at least 2 solid competitive players. Hopefully ATI comes out with something good this fall.
Red_Shift
06-18-07, 09:45 AM
There is no need for Nvidia to launch a new GPU soon
Maybe not if all you want is just stay on top of the competition, but if you look at dx10 games' benchmarks you'll realize there will be a demand for a new chip.
I hope nVidia sticks to a Q4 launch, and hope they keep pushing the graphics industry independently of what ATI does.
atriq
06-29-07, 07:52 PM
Also, the Mt Evans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opengl#Post_OpenGL_2.1) OpenGL specification is expected to be released in October. It'd be awesome to have some cards available sometime in the months following that support it.
kam03
06-30-07, 09:22 AM
They better release a new GPU by Q4, i don't want to run crysis or other Dx10games below 40 fps on a single graphics solution.
SH0DAN
07-06-07, 08:31 PM
Yup, I have concerns over what the market will look like if we don't have ATI there to push NVIDIA a little. I think we'd all like to keep at least 2 solid competitive players. Hopefully ATI comes out with something good this fall.



I wouldnt worry overly much about ATI.Intel will give Nvidia all the competition they could ever want,and then some ! :)
MauiHawk
07-18-07, 09:57 PM
The G80 is still selling, so from a marketing stand point, it would be a bad move to launch a new card line until AMD comes up with a card that beats it. Nvidia will probably keep the G80 out for over a year.
But if they can reduce physical size with the next generation (which is very likely with a 65nm process), it will cost them less to produce the cards. If that's the case, they'll make a bigger profit margin on the G90's and it would make sense from a business standpoint.