Nvidia Talks About Next-Gen Geforce, Plus Pics

Per Hansson writes "Techspot was at Comdex in Sweden a few days ago; we have now posted a small interview with Nvidia along with some high-res pictures of the Geforce FX on this page in our new comments system." This is one of the strangest looking video cards I've ever seen (and it isn't cheap), though it may look different by the time you can buy it in a box. Which is not yet, despite all the hype.

Comments

Good Old Video Card

[hikousen]

What are we up to now? Three months to obsolescence? It was just last Fall that we heard about the ultra-mega-super Radeon 9700 that could render 47umptyzillion somethingorothers every picosecond (only $400 while supplies last)?

I wonder if we're ever going to get to a point where "this is the hardware. You have 10 years to do something cool with it" instead of "oh, look, your program is obsolete again! Your graphics are dated! Another 10 man-years down the drain! Place your bets... (spin)"

sigh...

Re:Good Old Video Card

[Saeger]

Place your bets... (spin)

I'll put $40 trillion on "The Law of Accelerating Returns", and laugh at you for putting your money on "Moores Law Has To Hit A Wall Dammit!!!!1!!!1" :-)

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Re:Good Old Video Card

[Reality Master 101]

There's very little reason someone with a video card made a year or two ago would need one of these.

Two words: Quake III.

You are right that 98% of games will run on hardware two years old. However, there is a subset of games that demands the latest and greatest hardware to experience the game. There's no "conspiracy" here, just that certain developers aim at the leading edge. If you don't want to play those games, there's no reason to upgrade.

Personally, the day Quake III comes out is the day I upgrade my video card. :)

Re:Good Old Video Card

[MisterFancypants]

Personally, the day Quake III comes out is the day I upgrade my video card. :)

You said it, man. When Quake III comes out I'm gonna PARTY LIKE IT'S 1999!

Re:Good Old Video Card

[Reality Master 101]

Oops... I suppose that's probably a freudian slip about the "differences" between Quake and Doom. :)

Bah! Humbug!

[kruetz]

In my day, video cards didn't even use these new-fangled slot whatsits. We didn't even have monitors back then - the video card had to do all the drawing and thne DISPLAY it to us as well. And we didn't have RAM or ROM either, so we had to remember each byte ourselves and give it to the video card when necessary. Not that it ever TOLD you when it needed a byte, OR which byte it needed. You had to memorise the order in which bytes were required - the list was provided in invisible ink on the back of the installation manual (which we DIDN'T have) and it was written in reverse-polish ascii pseudo-hexadecimal with a Russian accent. AND it could do everything we needed! And it didn't even need a heatsink (but the horses that powered it did need a break every now and then, and you had to train them not to go potty on the computer ... that was a real CORE DUMP)

Hmmm...

[mschoolbus]

I wonder if they are coming out with a laptop model also... =P

I love the comment under the images. . .

[stevarooski]

"How cool, a video card with what looks like a trojan stretched over it for safe gaming."

How apt!

That's Quake IV or DOOM III

[idontneedanickname]

That's Quake IV or DOOM III.

Personally, the day Quake III comes out is the day I upgrade my video card. :)

Well, you're a couple years late, better hurry!

Re:not just FPS anymore

[RabidOverYou]

> 486 DX system ... and 1/2 gig

Half a gig? Shit, what bank did you rob? We had 120MB, and strutted like horny alley cats.

Re:not just FPS anymore

[ChrisDolan]

just 10 years ago a 486 DX system could cost over $4000 grand

4000 grand??? I think you paid too much. :-)