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Nvidia GeForceFX(NV30) Officially Launched
egarland writes "Tom's Hardware has a new article previewing the new GeForceFX chip and discussing its architecture. 0.13 Micron, 16 GB/s memory bandwidth, 128-bit DDR2 memory interface, 125 M transistors, support for 8x FSAA. Sounds like an interesting chip. They stuck with a 128 bit memory bus so ATI's R300 still has more memory bandwidth (19.8 GB/s) but NVidia has new lossless memory compression so we will have to wait for benchmarks to see if NVidia comes up a winner here. The reference card also sports a massive new cooling system which is worth a look."
Readers Oliver Wendell and JavaTenor add links to additional stories at The Register and at AnandTech.
...poor Tom's Hardware, we knew him well. :-(
Ita erat quando hic adveni.
How does it run Doom III?
Well, I can see that it allows blood to drip 2x as fast as my 128 Meg Geforce 4400.
And, wow! You can totally see the eyelids blur as characters blink!!!
What great features in this cool cool engine. I think I can even see the blood polygons underneath the characters' pixelated skin!
Don't even get me started about the quality of reflections in the moving water.
DAAAMN!
-S
We Apprentice Developers and Designers
There I was with my Beowulf cluster of GeForceFX(NV30) cards..
The duct tape glistened in the weak 40 watts of light in my parents' basement. "g1bb0r m3 T-Fl0p5!" I screamed but it was not to be. There was no joy in Mudville, the mighty cluster had blown a fuse.
Trolling is a art,
I could hook that thing up to my ductwork and save a fortune on natural gas this winter.
Trolling is a art,
Damn, Nvidia, why couldn't you have this thing ready for fall?
I've been searching for years for a leaf blower that could run Doom III at acceptable frame rates.
NVIDIA has a few more shots of that Fairy:
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Now that they have a video card that has more impressive specs than my PC I have to upgrade or be made fun of by my rich friends.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. It's just that yours is stupid.
Dear Timothy,
1. Do you understand what the word 'launch' means?
2. Are you aware it is not yet February 2003?
I predict that we'll soon be buying big metal graphics controller boxes from nVidia complete with heavy duty power supplies and massive cooling capacity. After you get it home, you'll open up your graphics adapter and insert a little motherboard and CPU into an option slot to complete your computer system.
New hardware mentioned on Slashdot. Now it's time for all the lamers to come up with the following posts:
:) Maybe along with a dual Opteron machine. And before you scream excess, have you checked Pricewatch lateley? I remember paying $3300 for a single processor PII-300 with 64MB of RAM and a Riva 128 in January of 1998. If the Opterons don't cost that much more than the high-end Athlons today, I could put together this machine for significantly less than that!
1) Who needs all that power anyway? I'm running Windows XP just fine here on my 486SX/33!
2) Why cares if it's fast? It uses up too much power and has a *fan* on it. God forbid a computer have a fan on it! It sucks because it's not fan-less like my Mac!
3) Sure it might be fast, but I bet it isn't as *efficient* as a G4!
4) NVIDIA sucks because it's drivers are closed source.
Did I forget anything? Anyway, I couldn't care less what the lamers think. This is a genuinely cool piece of hardware. There are a few things that make it so:
1) 500 MHz! That's half a gigahertz! A very large jump in clock-speed here, much more so than the usual 33 MHz pussy-footing the industry (particularly Intel!) is guilty of.
2) Compressed-memory access. Ah, computational power exceeds memory bandwidth to the point that it's more efficient just to compress the data before sending it over the bus... The 16 GB/sec memory bandwidth (which is also quite a big jump from existing machines) is made even more impressive by a lossless compression that can achieve 4:1 ratios. This is very helpful for multisample AA graphics, because it reduces the memory bandwidth hit to just the pixels that occupy the edges of polygons rather than every pixel in the scene.
3) Fully floating point pixel pipelines. Carmack was asking for 64-bit floating-point point pipelines a while ago. While this doesn't quite get there (it's 32-bit floating point) it is a major step, and makes life a lot easier for game developers.
Overall, this card is definately in the cards for me
A deep unwavering belief is a sure sign you're missing something...
AHA! so you're that loser that just sits in the corner at the lan parties with his 486 rocking back and forth playing solitare and minesweeper...
Nice to meet you!
In short, better get that Ti4600 card very soon, because they could be gone in a matter of months.
I am glad you summarized that, because I was having trouble digesting the entire *sentence* before that.
My goodness, can you imagine a "workstation" running one of these nVidia cards with dual Itanic processors? Heck, if you got a university to run this configuration, you could bring Enron back from the brink. I see 20amp fuses in many homes going "POP" right now.
That new graphics card sure looks pretty and EXPENSIVE with all that copper. This will certainly add to the cost of that product. I wonder what percent by weight of the entire product is copper, seeing that copper is a commodity metal.
Regarding those comments about the cooling system not having a filter, this is a pre-production model. Give it some time, it will have to use a filter to keep the small space between the copper fins free of dust.
Hey Bob, while you're out at Murray's Automotive, get me a new oil filter model number P3160 for a Saturn SL2 dual overhead cam and FX160 filter for my NVidia graphics card, 128MB DDR2 RAM, and be sure to read the serial number information. My FX card is post 4375XXX, so it doesn't need a finotany rod or a muffler bearing.
Its amazing!
The specs for this board should include a noise dampener to counter the hoover that they have strapped to its circuit board.
The ex-3DFX engineers that NVidia acquired somehow managed to brainwash the NVidia guys into releasing a gigantic monster of a board that can only rival the VooDoo 5000 in its unpracticality and ungainliness.
Those 3DFX guys have had their revenge.
Heh- Anyone else see the "NVFairy" on the offical site? If the GeForceFX can do that...then I forsee an entirely new market segment opening up in "Hardware Accelerated" software.
Kind of adds a whole new meaning to the "Force" in GeForce.
The GeForceFX - so fast it leaves skid marks in your wallet!
-Julius X
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SKO: Add Carmack to your foes list.
Alice: Why do you want to do that?
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SKO: you slut!
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Alice: No, you're a slut.
SKO: No, you're a slut.
Alice: Now you DIE!
Official MacOSX 10.2.7 Patch schedule
Because many new GPUs are reaching a stage where they are faster than our G4s, code has been added to swap the GPU into a CPU and the CPU(G4) into a GPU. We anticipate a 15-30% boost in Photoshop.
Yeah, but if they called it GeForce 5, they'd've had to pay royalties to Sandy Frank or Ted Turner, and probably would've had to name the 7th generatation card the 7-Zark-7...