Nvidia Confirms Nv30 Availability Early Next Year
Posted by Daniel Fleshbourne on 12 November 2002 - 09:49 · 12 comments & 247 views
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#1 Posted by Fubar on 12 Nov 2002 - 10:04
- I WANT ONE
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#2 Posted by r1x on 12 Nov 2002 - 10:15
- lol
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#3 Posted by nonick on 12 Nov 2002 - 10:38
- heh in 2years u will say bah! NV30? damn! how the heck i loved that card so much? dont get too excited please.
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#4 Posted by DigitalDJ on 12 Nov 2002 - 10:54
- in 2 years ull say...NV30..uhhh....wats an NV30? OR
ewwwwwww..NV30...works like shit haha
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#5 Posted by humcheepeng on 12 Nov 2002 - 13:59
- When is the NV35 coming out?
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#6 Posted by jerichohol on 12 Nov 2002 - 14:08
- Or the Radeon 10XXX
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#7 Posted by Raptor on 12 Nov 2002 - 17:13
- ATI must have be peeing their pants in joy at this news. -Raptor
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#8 Posted by DrunkenMaster on 12 Nov 2002 - 18:52
- I've got to wonder how they can afford to keep up the pace. $500 million for a new processor generation of graphics cards with ficsal revenues of $1.8 billion (these are not profits). I can't think of how they can stay on top of the stock market. They're investing about 30% of revenues on RD. That's too much. I don't see them coming out with an all new architecture for at least 2 or 3 years at that price.
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#9 Posted by daneel on 12 Nov 2002 - 19:04
- DrunkenMaster: simple, as said in the article Nvidia will just just release several revisions of the same core to keep increasing the performance. It's very common to just do copy&paste full units and have to do some very minimal work of synching the all lot after. This means that the NV30 core will be around for at least 2 years (1 for the high end and 2 for low end).
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#10 Posted by FearMeAll on 12 Nov 2002 - 23:06
- I've been waiting to get my hands on an NV30 since July! I mean- the thing is supposed to be able to render 30 dinosoaurs from Jurrassic park at 100fps at high res! I can't wait to see UT2003 running at like 150fps at 1280 x 1024 with 4xs antialiasing and 16x anistropic filtering! that's my dream- hope it comes true
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#11 Posted by daneel on 12 Nov 2002 - 23:34
- This "30 dinosaurs at 100fps" is ludicrous, another marketing trick from Nvidia.
At the end of the day what matters are the actual games using the hardware (and maybe Longhorn or its successor using an 3D'ish UI), I don't care a given card scores well with let's say the next generation of 3DMark that will probably be using DX9.0.
What I would really prefer are chipsets able to push much more polys/sec rather than just giving the ability to use higher resolutions thank to higher memory bandwidth, past the 1280 I don't see any visual differences even though I have a 22inch monitor.
After all on my PAL TV when watching a DVD full of CG like SW EP1 or 2 looks definitely better than UT2003 in 1600*1200
NVIDIA will only be able to deliver the next-generation highly-anticipated NV30 graphics processors in January or February next year. Now it is confirmed by the CEO of NVIDIA, himself.
Just as we stated, NVIDIA wanted to improve the yields and reduce the costs of manufacturing. With almost two months time, they will definitely be able to achieve higher yields and maybe even improve the speed of their graphics processor. Apparently, NVIDIA’s developers have been able to play with certain hardware samples of NV30 technology since February 2002. According to NVIDIA, the cost of developing the NV3x family of products will be close to $400 million. At this moment I know for sure that there will be NV30, NV31, NV34 and NV35 code-named graphics processors as well as chipsets with integrated NV3x graphics core. Keeping in mind that there may be some problems with the NV31, NV34 and NV35, just as there were a lot of them with the NV30, the cost of developing will eventually be close to a half of a billion ($500 million). A lot amount of money even for NVIDIA, whose revenue for 2003 fiscal year will achieve $1.8 or $1.9 billion (keeping in mind that the Q4 will be flat, according to the CEO).
All in all, do not expect to get yourself a nice gift powered by NVIDIA’s next-generation graphics processor, which name is still not revealed to the masses, this Christmas. Grab the RADEON 9700 PRO or put your $399 back to your pocket
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