NVIDIA Gearing Up For The Release Of The G80

Mike Howes 30 Sep, 2006 at 1:47am ET Article published in Tech

NVIDIA is advising its partners to clear their GX2 and 7900 GTX video cards from their inventory as it prepares for the release of the G80.

This card should replace the GX2 as the performance king. ATI still haven’t efficiently matched the Geforce 7900 GX2 and Nvidia is already on the brink of introducing the G80.
It seems Nvidia is inviting the Tech. Journalists to their headquarters in California, around mid October for a peek at the G80, so we could see a release of this card early in November.

At this stage not much is known about it except that it is a 90 nanometre chip.

Source: The Inquirer

Comments

30 Sep 2006 ~ 1:49am maxclark sounds intereseting...uh...could you tell me how to start a new thread...i can't find any button that allows me so...:)
30 Sep 2006 ~ 1:51am maxclark reading your post, it seems that NVIDIA is better than ATI since they have faster chips and everything....or at least NVIDIA is a step ahead of ATI....
30 Sep 2006 ~ 12:11pm Sledgehammer70 That isn't a good assumption, ATI and NVIDIA both make great cards, and depending on the price range one is better than the other.

Both ATI & NVIDIA have power house cards rolling out in the next few months for the high end users, so sit back and enjoy the show as these next Gen card will be ones to watch.
30 Sep 2006 ~ 12:20pm lemonlime

Sledgehammer70 wrote:

...Both ATI & NVIDIA have power house cards rolling out in the next few months for the high end users, so sit back and enjoy the show as these next Gen card will be ones to watch.

Couldn't have said it better myself This next gen will be very interesting.
3 Oct 2006 ~ 10:31am Esso The future will be changing the Computing Landscape Forever
5 Oct 2006 ~ 12:29pm indigoflow_as Is a new chipset required for DX10 compatibility?

No such thing as DX10 G70 cards ever? The Nvidia DX10 cards will be 8600, 8800, 8900 and so on?
5 Oct 2006 ~ 12:34pm Thrax No new chipset required, however you will need Windows Vista to run DX10 and DX10 games.

As for DX10 G70 cards, the probability is very, very, very slight. Margin of error slight.
5 Oct 2006 ~ 2:03pm airbornflght yeh DX10 was supposed to be released for XP, but that isnt happening afaik.
6 Oct 2006 ~ 1:08am TheSmJ This should be of interest to some people here: http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=4441
6 Oct 2006 ~ 2:21am a2jfreak So was the previous gen. And the one before that. Guess was, the gen after this next gen will be one to watch too.

lemonlime wrote:

Couldn't have said it better myself This next gen will be very interesting.
6 Oct 2006 ~ 5:56am Enverex Problem is for some of us though that ATi's Linux drivers are utter crap compared to nVidias (sounds like Windows going back a few years doesn't it). So NV always comes out on top there.

airbornflght wrote:

yeh DX10 was supposed to be released for XP, but that isnt happening afaik.

They were going to release it with SP3 but decided it would be best to just rape your wallet instead.
6 Oct 2006 ~ 6:36pm airbornflght

Enverex wrote:

They were going to release it with SP3 but decided it would be best to just rape your wallet instead.

who woulda thought? my wallet=