Next-gen Cards from ATI and NVidia (R600, G80)
I've been holding off on an upgrade for my X850XT for a while now. I purchased it about a year and a half ago at a full price ($599 I think, I've never paid that much for a card before
), so I really want it to stretch as long as possible.
With DX10 coming, and hints of the next gen ATI and NV cards, I want to wait for the next 'big thing' before buying. R600, G80.. who knows.
Any ideas of when we may start seeing these next gen cards? Are they really going to be as powerful as everyone is hinting? What do you think?

With DX10 coming, and hints of the next gen ATI and NV cards, I want to wait for the next 'big thing' before buying. R600, G80.. who knows.
Any ideas of when we may start seeing these next gen cards? Are they really going to be as powerful as everyone is hinting? What do you think?
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I haven't heard to much on ATI's new DX10 card, as details have been running very slow out of ATI since AMD bought them. I am actually surprised that we haven't seen more info being soiled as tons of ATI workers have fled the big red company..."now green". I am dying to get some juicy leaked info.
In regards to how powerful these new cards will be is uncertain, but the technology they will be supporting will open our eyes to a new graphical level of gaming. I took almost 4 years for game developers to really start to push Dx9 and from what I can tell DX10 open about 10 million more doors for new things. Until we start seeing DX10 in action we only know what is written on paper.
I have my speculation on these new cards, and I am thinking we will see a bit better jump in performance this time around.
Thanks for the info Sledge!
Based on those late 2006 dates, I think it definitely makes sense for me to hold off until then. The X850 should hold me off for a while longer, although it certainly struggles in games like oblivion. I don't think I'm going to go bleeding edge again (like I did with the X850XT), but I'll wait until something like a 'GT' or a 'second highest' model comes available. Not worth the big price premium for a small improvement in performance.
the G80 will be a huge leap as will ATI's offerings... they are both leading onto new tech.. and ATI's 80nm GPU's might finally be lower power and less heat than Nvidia.... we will see sooner than later.
oh and yea...if gpus could be utilized for folding..that would be cool too
supposivly ATI is saying their DX10 card is going to be as big like as when the 9700 came out, for those that dont know when the 9700 came it out freaking mopped the floor with any Nvidia card D:, it was also the first DX9 card