GF 8800GTX or the "G80" - Page 18

FLB · 21st October 2006, 5:10 PM

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Originally Posted by SLATYE

What I said about G80 was pure speculation - it may turn out to be only as fast as a G70 in DX9, but ridiculously quick under DX10.

I have a feeling NV will be quick in DX10 as they don't want the same crap as last time with DX9 R300, Vs. DX9 NV30. And considering any IHV building a DX10 chip must implement every Direct3d10 feature to even be considered DX10 compliant - unlike DX9 where they just implemented what they wanted/needed... the 2 big boys will be on the ball I think.

TOX · 21st October 2006, 5:14 PM

I was told by nVidia that Intel don't have enough money for them to pay for the licence for the 975X to support SLI

SLATYE · 21st October 2006, 5:21 PM

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Originally Posted by TOX

I was told by nVidia that Intel don't have enough money for them to pay for the licence for the 975X to support SLI

That seems strange, since there were rumours that Intel was just going to buy Nvidia a few weeks ago.

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Originally Posted by FLB

I have a feeling NV will be quick in DX10 as they don't want the same crap as last time with DX9 R300, Vs. DX9 NV30. And considering any IHV building a DX10 chip must implement every Direct3d10 feature to even be considered DX10 compliant - unlike DX9 where they just implemented what they wanted/needed... the 2 big boys will be on the ball I think.

Let's hope so - and let's hope that MS actually get Vista out soon enough that we can have DX10 games before G80/R600 are obsolete.

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Originally Posted by nVIDIAxp

never assume that it will be 3 times as powerful as 1 ALU per pipeline design

Yes, this is true - but even so, I would expect it to perform much better than it does now if developers start adding lots of shader effects to each pixel.

TOX · 21st October 2006, 5:24 PM

What so strange about it with C55 NDA expiring the same time as G80 why would NVIDIA want to give people the choice to buy the 975X over there new chipset?

FLB · 21st October 2006, 5:34 PM

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Originally Posted by SLATYE

Let's hope so - and let's hope that MS actually get Vista out soon enough that we can have DX10 games before G80/R600 are obsolete.

Mid-Late January should still be the Vista Launch. Regarding them being obsolete before Vista comes, well if the chips are good all should be fine, remember the 9700 Pro did pretty well even tho it launched months before DX9 actually shipped for XP/2K/9x OS's - let alone any DX9 games...

lowdog · 21st October 2006, 5:54 PM

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Originally Posted by dinos22

oh man so many goodies coming out....crazy crazy crazy

Thought you said you'd been spending too much money on all this crap and it was time to stop.

skootyloops · 21st October 2006, 6:00 PM

It's a pity that intel didnt get SLi support for the 975X chipset. It would make an intel setup one of the best. Just think: Core 2 Quad + the option of SLi or Crossfire

lowdog · 21st October 2006, 9:02 PM

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Originally Posted by dinos22

likewise

So it looks like your in the market for 2 x G80 for sli, Nvidia 608i and QC, must have a few spare K's in the back pocket eh, hehe.

dinos22 · 21st October 2006, 9:15 PM

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Originally Posted by lowdog

So it looks like your in the market for 2 x G80 for sli, Nvidia 608i and QC, must have a few spare K's in the back pocket eh, hehe.

something like that heh

Aetherone · 22nd October 2006, 7:41 AM

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Originally Posted by TOX

What so strange about it with C55 NDA expiring the same time as G80 why would NVIDIA want to give people the choice to buy the 975X over there new chipset?

to give themselves a slice of the pure Intel solution (CPU + Chipset) pie?

Although I dont know hard numbers, I suspect the number of Intel chipsets being sold under Intel CPUs is an order of magnitude more then the number of NV chipsets being sold under Intel CPUs.

You'd also think it would allow Intel to take a big bite from the AMD+SLI market. Course a "big bite" of that market may only be 1/1000th of the mum'n'dads market

eva2000 · 22nd October 2006, 8:02 AM

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Originally Posted by dinos22

likewise

haha

You better have the psu to back them up though

TaroT · 22nd October 2006, 9:19 AM

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1 was told by nVidia that Intel don't have enough money for them to pay for the licence for the 975X to support SLI

well you better tell the receptionist in the mailroom she's clueless.

It's more the point nvidia WANT to much for the liscence and Intel don't deem it a profitable expense.

especially after there last forecast, they will be counting pennies over the next month or so to get back up to full borg strength

dinos22 · 22nd October 2006, 9:34 AM

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Originally Posted by eva2000

haha

You better have the psu to back them up though

ha ha ha ha maybe you can hook me up with your mob

eva2000 · 22nd October 2006, 9:48 AM

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Originally Posted by dinos22

ha ha ha ha maybe you can hook me up with your mob

will be selling one of my Intel D975XBX Badaxe rev304 soon just finishing off some tests http://forums.overclockers.com.au/sh...83#post6523583

Only issue i see is flaky driver support at launch for G80 based cards on 975x chipset. I've already seen some G80/G80 SLI based benchmarks for Intel platform and they do need some work on drivers and yes even a core2 @3700mhz will be bottled necked by a single G80 graphics card... that's all i'll say

dinos22 · 22nd October 2006, 9:51 AM

i wonder how nvidia 680i will do against 975X

re CPU comment

wonder how 4.5Ghz C2D would do in terms of bottlenecks

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21st October 2006, 5:14 PM	#257
TOX Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Xindian City, Taipei Posts: 14,265	I was told by nVidia that Intel don't have enough money for them to pay for the licence for the 975X to support SLI

21st October 2006, 5:24 PM	#259
TOX Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Xindian City, Taipei Posts: 14,265	What so strange about it with C55 NDA expiring the same time as G80 why would NVIDIA want to give people the choice to buy the 975X over there new chipset?

21st October 2006, 6:00 PM	#262
skootyloops Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Sydney Posts: 5,692	It's a pity that intel didnt get SLi support for the 975X chipset. It would make an intel setup one of the best. Just think: Core 2 Quad + the option of SLi or Crossfire