neo1980 Posted July 28, 2002 Share Posted July 28, 2002 Although it wasn't an announcement per se, nVidia nonetheless divulged some details about their upcoming NV30 GPU, due to ship in volume this October. Here's what nVidia made public in its presentations at SIGGRAPH: Image rendered with the upcoming NV30 Vertex Shaders beyond DirectX 9 with up to 1024 static instructions, up to 65536 instructions executed in loops, branches and subroutines Pixel Shaders beyond DirectX 9 - up to 1024 instructions Long programs for both pixel shading and vertex shading Support for OpenGL and DirectX HLSL via NVIDIA's Cg OpenGL extensions that support long pixel and vertex shaders programs 128-bit floating point color precision High bandwidth Support for high-speed DDR2 memories 8X AGP Built on 0.13-micron process technology Other chip-specific details remain under NDA until later this year, but we'll have a deep look inside the guts of NV30 in the coming months, so stay tuned for that. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973...3,415713,00.asp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TooPackShaker Posted July 28, 2002 Share Posted July 28, 2002 sweet :cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MxxCon Posted July 28, 2002 Share Posted July 28, 2002 it'll cost only $699:rolleyes: and will come with it's own disel power generator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomwarren Veteran Posted July 28, 2002 Veteran Share Posted July 28, 2002 hehehe sweet :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Zollo Posted July 28, 2002 Share Posted July 28, 2002 I really can't wait to see if nVidia can beat the 9700, its truly up in the air for now. I'd put my money on the 9700 though, ATI seems to have a new sense of what they're doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClintEastman Posted July 28, 2002 Share Posted July 28, 2002 I think nVidia's "omen" really is gona stomp on the 9700, from what they have been hinting it's going to set the bar at a whole new level, which can only be good for us the customer! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axis Posted July 28, 2002 Share Posted July 28, 2002 We all know once the two rival companies ship there cards that it will be down to driver performance. nVidia is far supperior then ATI in this department. I have never had a problem with any nVidia card I have had and the drivers always seem to improve as they go on. I would still stick with nVidia even if they ATI card is better, because how much better can it actually be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Posted July 28, 2002 Share Posted July 28, 2002 Originally posted by neo1980 Although it wasn't an announcement per se, nVidia nonetheless divulged some details about their upcoming NV30 GPU, due to ship in volume this October. Here's what nVidia made public in its presentations at SIGGRAPH: Image rendered with the upcoming NV30 Vertex Shaders beyond DirectX 9 with up to 1024 static instructions, up to 65536 instructions executed in loops, branches and subroutines Pixel Shaders beyond DirectX 9 - up to 1024 instructions Long programs for both pixel shading and vertex shading Support for OpenGL and DirectX HLSL via NVIDIA's Cg OpenGL extensions that support long pixel and vertex shaders programs 128-bit floating point color precision High bandwidth Support for high-speed DDR2 memories 8X AGP Built on 0.13-micron process technology Other chip-specific details remain under NDA until later this year, but we'll have a deep look inside the guts of NV30 in the coming months, so stay tuned for that. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973...3,415713,00.asp that image is disgusting.... I LUV IT!!!!!! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClintEastman Posted July 28, 2002 Share Posted July 28, 2002 Take a look at this then. http://www.nvmax.com/Articles/Previews/NV3..._SNEAK_PREVIEW/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EDF Posted July 29, 2002 Share Posted July 29, 2002 if it wouldnt cost that much it would be cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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