G92 Right around the corner

[Sava700]

Looks like its time to start saving up for the BFG 9800GTX/ultra! :)


NVIDIA SAYS its G92 high-end graphics card will deliver almost a teraflop of computing performance.

In an analyst webcast, Nvidian Michael Hara says that the chip will be ready for Christmas, a release cycle the company adopted with G80, where high-end products come out for Chrimbo and the mid-range and low-end products hit in the spring.

This suggests a couple of things. One, that the delays we saw to the release of Nvidia hardware through 2006 and 2007 have now been factored into the schedule, to a point where we're going to see yearly updates of the high-end part every Q4. This is pretty nifty. Second, Nvidia doesn't see the benefit in releasing all three ranges of cards together, preferring to let the 'halo' effect of the high-end card provide a few months of advanced marketing for the mid-range parts.

Second, it puts DAAMIT between a rock and a hard place. AMD is readying Barcelona, and Intel is preparing its own native quad-core chip in Nehalem to hit at the same time. ATI will be prepping the R600 refresh for the end of the year and Nvidia will be hitting with the GeForce 9800. Tough stuff.

The actual power of G92 might surprise some. The 8800 can rustle up about 330Gflops, which means the green team is suggesting that the 9800 could be three times more powerful. If that's true, the question remains - why bother? What games are going to take advantage of that? If the answer is Crysis at 2560x1600, Nvidia better hope that the game doesn't slip much further than it already has.

Source: inquirer

[YARDofSTUF]

Hopefully a trust worthy source will back this up.

I'm curious how much power this will suck up. THREE TIMES AS POWERFUL doesnt sound like they paid much attention to power demands.

[Sava700]

Hopefully a trust worthy source will back this up.

I'm curious how much power this will suck up. THREE TIMES AS POWERFUL doesnt sound like they paid much attention to power demands.

well i'm sure we will be looking at GDDR4

[YARDofSTUF]

well i'm sure we will be looking at GDDR4

...

ok.

[Brent]

Source: inquirer

'nuff said

[A_old]

'nuff said

:rotfl:

[Sava700]

'nuff said

its also posted over on guru3d and Hilbert never posts things that are untrue.. reading info on the 9800 cards is all over the internet..this is just one article that seems to follow suit with all the other past releases.

[YARDofSTUF]

its also posted over on guru3d and Hilbert never posts things that are untrue.. reading info on the 9800 cards is all over the internet..this is just one article that seems to follow suit with all the other past releases.

Guru's source is the inq too.

[Brent]

its also posted over on guru3d and Hilbert never posts things that are untrue..

rofl

[Sava700]

rofl

whats funny? The news of this card has been all over the net for months now...this just confirms some info around its release. :confused:

[YARDofSTUF]

whats funny? The news of this card has been all over the net for months now...this just confirms some info around its release. :confused:

Everyone is just quoting the inq, how does that prove anything?

[Sava700]

Everyone is just quoting the inq, how does that prove anything?

naw not just that article..but alot others are also talking about it..this card is soon to be here.

[YARDofSTUF]

http://techreport.com/onearticle.x/12538

http://www.neoseeker.com/news/story/6749/

http://www.guru3d.com/news.html#5361

All sources are the inq.


EDIT: No hard facts about what the card will have/do. I am very sure thats all NDA.

[Sava700]

the card will come out by the end of the year..so I'm saving now :thumb:

[Brent]

the card will come out by the end of the year..so I'm saving now :thumb:

I love how you are so sure of what it is and when it will be coming. Do you work for NVIDIA? Because I don't even know that information right now.

[Rivas]

They didnt approve heatsink/fan for the videocard yet.

The temperatures are going to be 12-15 degree celsia more but it also depends what kind of memory they are going to use.

It's going to be available by the end of august.

kit tronics is one of a "few" who developed cooling solutions for this videocard, but it's not clear if they will get it since there are so many other major players.

Thats what I was told.

EDIT: I had to make a call before posting something stupid and ask about this videocard.

Also Yorkfield is going to hit streets in july/august latest and it will need new motherboards, but this information is not clear yet.

[Sava700]

I love how you are so sure of what it is and when it will be coming. Do you work for NVIDIA? Because I don't even know that information right now.

no but as you can see from Rivas post i'm not the only one that knows this information..its all over the net. I wouldn't have posted it if I didn't know it not to be true.

[Brent]

Because everything you read on the Internet is true

[Joe]

Because everything you read on the Internet is true

I know.

[Sava700]

Because everything you read on the Internet is true

such negativity when its at least something someone cares about.

[YARDofSTUF]

such negativity when its at least something someone cares about.

We want teh cold hard facts! Leave now, find them! You have 27 hours.

[Brent]

such negativity when its at least something someone cares about.

I apologize if I am coming across negative, that is not my intent.

I like to work on the basis of facts when it comes to computer hardware. Many websites only post rumors, it is called rumor mongering, a lot of it comes from the Inq and Fudzilla, including Guru3d and VR-Zone (they just repost what comes from the Inq). Take everything with a bag of salt.

[Sava700]

We want teh cold hard facts! Leave now, find them! You have 27 hours.

27 hours?


no prob Brett and I agree with ya.. be nice if Nvidia had that news on its site directly.

[Rivas]

27 hours?


no prob Brett and I agree with ya.. be nice if Nvidia had that news on its site directly.

Not going to happend yet.

[Rivas]

I apologize if I am coming across negative, that is not my intent.

I like to work on the basis of facts when it comes to computer hardware. Many websites only post rumors, it is called rumor mongering, a lot of it comes from the Inq and Fudzilla, including Guru3d and VR-Zone (they just repost what comes from the Inq). Take everything with a bag of salt.

I didnt even look what was written in the inq Brent.

[YARDofSTUF]

27 hours?


no prob Brett and I agree with ya.. be nice if Nvidia had that news on its site directly.

Who the **** is Brett!

[YARDofSTUF]

I didnt even look what was written in the inq Brent.

Random words with no meaning.

[Sava700]

Who the **** is Brett!

I meant brent ya typo noticing wookie!