Nvidia G80 Spotted

Mathew Everett 13 Jun, 2006 at 10:23am ET Article published in Tech

Nvidia is in the midst of pushing forward their first DX10 graphics card in late Quater3 or early Quarter 4 of this year. Specs are not known at this point but what we do know for sure is that the G80 will be DirectX 10 compliant of course but it won’t have the full implementation of Shader Model 4.0. It won’t do the unified Shader but it will be Vista ready.

This chip has every chance to end up faster than ATI’s upcoming R580+ fall refresh chip but this one will get R600 beast to compete with. It is still too early for clocks and final specs but we will start digging this one

Source: The Inquirer

Comments

13 Jun 2006 ~ 9:38pm Jengo damn, with this early of a release im wondering if i should still buy a GeForce 7900gt
13 Jun 2006 ~ 9:41pm airbornflght im not, my next video card will prob be a 14800GT at this rate
14 Jun 2006 ~ 8:17pm Jengo

airbornflght wrote:

im not, my next video card will prob be a 14800GT at this rate
15 Jun 2006 ~ 7:10am jradmin

Jengo wrote:

damn, with this early of a release im wondering if i should still buy a GeForce 7900gt

For the love of god WAIT! Until they fix the unstability problems of the 7900 series I am going to try my hardest to convice people not to buy them. You don't want the kind of trouble that thousands upon thousands of people including myself have had.
15 Jun 2006 ~ 9:07am madmat

jradmin wrote:

For the love of god WAIT! Until they fix the unstability problems of the 7900 series I am going to try my hardest to convice people not to buy them. You don't want the kind of trouble that thousands upon thousands of people including myself have had.

As long as you don't go and buy the "Uber Whiz-Bang CO/KO/BMFD Overcooked" variety you should be fine. The ones having all the issues are the ones that are far off nVidia's specs, the budget friendlier versions that stick to the specs posted by Nvidia are having very low return rates.
15 Jun 2006 ~ 1:36pm Sledgehammer70 Very true, The problem is not caused by Nvidia, It is caused by Nvidia's Partners. If you read across the net Nvidia tells it Partners not OC their cards, and sometimes if a company can prove it is a good thing Nvidia will allow it. But 99% of the time it is the partners fault. In your case the blame is on EvGA.