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ATI's next generation video card to be 1.6x faster?
Meanwhile, the Nvidia camp is prepping their November response to ATI's Evergreen line. Nvidia is working on a GT300 card, which supposedly features 512 processor cores among other architectural enhancements including MIMD (Multiple Instruction Multiple Data), an improvement over the presently utilized SIMD technology.
It is alleged that Nvidia's project may outdo ATI's in terms of performance, but at the expense of a larger, hotter card.
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poundsmack
on August 31, 2009 3:57 PM |
as long as they both keep shrinking the mn's down and the power and heart requirements the same or lower, they will be good cards. Every time I see specs like this it always reminds me of this picture; http://blog.codefront.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/outside |
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TomSEA
on August 31, 2009 4:16 PM |
I'll take expensive, larger and hotter over slower any day. You can adjust for that stuff (bigger case, good cooler, take a second job....). |
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Guest
on August 31, 2009 6:10 PM |
I'm just glad something new is coming out to feed my addiction. I've been stuck with these two gtx 295's for far too long. When I am awaiting something new for my build my mind is constantly thinking about it and my OCD decreases. |
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snowchick7669
on August 31, 2009 6:22 PM |
[link] Wow! I play that game, its so addictive :P |
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red1776
on August 31, 2009 6:38 PM |
Wow! I play that game, its so addictive :P you play Wow?...hmmm...you don't seem like the type :p |
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snowchick7669
on August 31, 2009 7:05 PM |
Haha funny that, I did actually. I only played it because my flatmates played it and we had 'bonding' :P I was talking about RL |
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red1776
on August 31, 2009 7:35 PM |
obtuse and obtuser I was talking about RL I know...i know...im not dumb!....now then, is this RL out in PS3? |
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9Nails
on August 31, 2009 8:05 PM |
I'm going to side with Matthew on this one. I can't help but to think that this 1.6X faster is an artificial number which is only achievable by marketing departments. The typical slope between hardware cycles suggests a 20% increase. I'm more incline to believe something along these lines as realistic. Which is a number to suggest actual hardware performance. Driver optimization for specific game titles can add to the base hardware improvements. But I'm not holding my breath for these two performance indicators to be delivered together as the hardware ships. |
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snowchick7669
on August 31, 2009 8:09 PM |
Hm, I think it may be Certainly Microsoft haven't got the hang of it yet |
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EXCellR8
on September 1, 2009 2:01 PM |
I hope they improve their Crossfire support with the next series... it's a shame that they always have to release hotfixes due to poor marketing. |
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windmill007
on September 2, 2009 7:36 AM |
ATI needs to optimize there power consumption and heat. Thats why i choose Nvidia over ATI. Just like my Honda...if you optimize the speed a smaller engine will perform almost as well as the hogging big one. |
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AndrestheBean
on September 2, 2009 11:26 AM |
ATI needs to optimize there power consumption and heat. Thats why i choose Nvidia over ATI. Just like my Honda...if you optimize the speed a smaller engine will perform almost as well as the hogging big one. i think your confused, nvidia is the one with big hot cards. |
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HaMsTeYr
on September 4, 2009 2:22 AM |
"but at the expensive of a larger, hotter card. " Am i the only one who notices that its supposed to say expense...? lol And yes, its meant to be nvidia with the big and hot >.> not really so much of ATi... ATi's coolers just suck >< |
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Matthew
on September 4, 2009 10:10 AM |
@hamsteyr: Fixed, thanks |
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