Details on nVidia G80 GPU

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1. February 6, 2006 6:31 AM
   thomasxstewart said:
   Heres few more details:G80card.//FUTURE:We heard that G80 will be in time for launch in June during Computex and the process technology is likely to be 80nm at TSMC. In the recent statement, NVIDIA has said that they will be backing the 80nm "half-node" process by TSMC where it allows reduction of die size by 19%. We have previously mentioned that G80 is likely to take on the Unified Shader approach and supports Shader Model 4.0. G80 is likely to be paired up with the Samsung GDDR4 memories reaching a speed of 2.5Gbps. As for ATi, the next generation R600 is slated for launch end of this year according to the roadmap we have seen and the process technology is 65nm. It seems that the leaked specs of the R600 that surfaced in June last year is pretty likely. According to Xpentor, NVIDIA G80 will make ATI stumble on April. Quad SLI itself can be implemented on a single card with two chips solution because it will carry the first dual core GPU ever with the support of DirectX10 and Shader Model 4.0. The development of G80 is also mentioned as being running very intensive since NVIDIA's acquisition over ULi. As for the upcoming G71, there will be 32pipes, increase in ROPs and a little speed bump over the core clock. Date moved up from June to April '06 in one breath.Thats high speed marketing.(carbon nanotubes may be certain eventual dynamic change that present engineering must get as much as possible today, before whole system changes again).SOME MORE SPECS65nm 64 Shader pipelines (Vec4+Scalar) 32 TMU's 32 ROPs 128 Shader Operations per Cycle 800MHz Core 102.4 billion shader ops/sec 512GFLOPs for the shaders 2 Billion triangles/sec 25.6 Gpixels/Gtexels/sec 256-bit 512MB 1.8GHz GDDR4 Memory 57.6 GB/sec Bandwidth (at 1.8GHz) WGF2.0 Unified Shader more disruptive will be carbon nanotubes next year, many specs will go (up to) 10X if nanotubes pan out.Many ask why so fast change? Well game cards have been way over priced since sli year ago.SLI in itself was to straighten out INTELS pci express 16x flop & develope "true" 16x slot. Think of Ms. Pacman, 8 kb. Then think of sharek eating tropical fish, same game (mouth action back & forth action) only 8mb. 3DNA was amoung first next step to 250 mb games & 3dnow. Yet progress has slowed, equipment is stalled in developement limbo. demands of hdtv large screen interactive gaming may be next step en masse'.What world needs is more powerful card, not wacko expensive cards. 32X slot will be great help.Once done it should remain for quite awhile, Yet today most games sold are like tetris, ms. pacman, or shooter over & over.Power will free us, sooner better.As well as my last thoughts inserted above about nano processors & gddr4 nano memory. Signed:PHYSICIAN THOMAS STEWART VON DRASHEK M.D.
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2. February 6, 2006 6:36 AM
   KillerPrince said:
   wow that is amazing directx10 now what are they gonna think of next?
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3. February 6, 2006 11:50 AM
   canadian said:
   Go nvidia, yea! Im so going to buy this. Imagine this, but in SLI!!!Nvidia is so much better than ATI. Although, ATI is Canadian...Should be interesting.
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4. March 5, 2006 2:15 AM
   blackdragon1230 said:
   [b]Originally posted by djleyo:[/b][quote]dual-core GPUs, DirectX10 support, Shader Model 4.0,GDDR4, core speeds 800MHz(and more)!!!everyone start drooling and pick up your jaws of the floor !!!do we really nead more ??? this news item made my day!! hooray for nvidia this olso means the series 7 gpu's are going to have a nice price droptake that next gen consoles imagine two of these bad boys in 16x SLI bye bye playstation 3 [/quote]Well i cant say for sure about the XBOX 360 gpu(not really a fan of the 360 or Ati) but as far as the Nvidia Rsx its still going to outdue the G80. IF what i found is true the RSX has a 7 series main core and 6 support cores. It seems that Nvidia and IBM did some close work on the RSX and applied cell technology to it, if the schematics i found are correct. But huray for Nvidia for taking the next step in the video card evolution.[Edited by blackdragon1230 on 2006-03-05 02:26:15]
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5. March 20, 2006 3:01 PM
   JavaJawa said:
   While my 2x7800GTs are fine, having only just got a new PC containing them a few weeks ago, I'm a bit peeved to find out that the G80 is coming out so soon . . .
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6. April 2, 2006 4:47 PM
   dicexzx said:
   Forgive me for being so naive when it comes to computers, but I was just curious will the G80 still be able to run with other operating systems other than Vista? If so, will there be any cons about this and will it still run all other games with ease or do we have to wait for Vista to be released? Thank you.Edit: I was also curious when do you think the G80 will be released? Because some people are saying in June, some are saying we might even have to wait until 2007. I was just curious when you guys think the card will be released. Thank you.[Edited by dicexzx on 2006-04-02 16:52:02]
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7. August 11, 2006 7:58 AM
   Cerberus666 said:
   [b]Originally posted by jmag034:[/b][quote]It wouldnt matter if it supported DX 14.0 and SM 7.0...the image quality sucks. I get the same detail with a 7800GT that i could get with a 9800pro. [/quote]Yeh probably. I used to run BF2 on medium detail with the 9700 pro BUT i now run the same settings with the X1300 at double the framerate (1024x768 in both cases) so its not just the quality of each frame but the quantity as well...the DX10 and SM:4 support are probably to futureproof them and the sick clock speeds will just help to boost the framerate 100+ even on 16x12 - not that any monitor can support that kind of refresh anyway...a futureproof GFX card and in SLI the performance is unimagineable - only its all going to come at an astronomical priceJust an after-thought: Anyone think the G80 series is going support PCI-E 32x?And in response to 'What's ATI got lined up to counter it?'"Probably DX11 and SM:5 with 2GB of memory and (called the X2000XTXTXTX)" :P[Edited by Cerberus666 on 2006-08-11 08:02:56]
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