This really supports what I was thinking about NV launching the 98XX series just to buy some times due to AMD's complete lack of competition http://forums.extremeoverclocking.com/showthread.php?t=286990
So basically Nvidia are milking all of the consumers because they were expected to release something new around this time, and weren't prepared to release their "Big guns" until AMD were also ready... and while I actually appreciate them doing that (lets face it, AMD would have been destroyed were NV to release the GT200 now), it still means that anyone who upgrades from a current 8800-series card to a 9800 series card essentially has "MUG" stamped accross their forehead. It was never intended as anything other than a stop-gap, never intended to bring anything to the table.
Looks like the real next-gen is only a couple/few short months away considering that is when ATI are due to release their R7XX and 4870 series cards, which have monster specs if these are anything approaching accurate http://www.crysis-online.com/forum/index.php?topic=23024.msg320774.
I get the feeling that 2008 is going to be a great year for the GPU market, and we are going to see some REAL performance monsters form both NV and ATI.
NVIDIA "GT200" is pretty much ready, FPU monster ahoy?
Written by Andreas G 09 March 2008 10:53
More than a few NVIDIA partners have been revealing information about the upcoming "GT200" chip from NVIDIA. The G8x architectures has been with us for an extremely long time, and with the G9x refresh, NVIDIA has had more time than ever to complete the true next generation architecture, known as both "G100" and "GT200". Apparently, NVIDIA has been working hard because the story is that NVIDIA could present its next architecture any day now, if it wanted to, but instead it's going to keep riding the G92 wave until AMD is ready to launch the R7x series.
The only kind of information about the performance that has leaked was posted by German HT4U.net, which stated that GT200 would sport twice the FPU performance of G92. This doesn't say much about the actual performance though, but we would be very surprised if GT200 doesn't stand up to R7x.
So basically Nvidia are milking all of the consumers because they were expected to release something new around this time, and weren't prepared to release their "Big guns" until AMD were also ready... and while I actually appreciate them doing that (lets face it, AMD would have been destroyed were NV to release the GT200 now), it still means that anyone who upgrades from a current 8800-series card to a 9800 series card essentially has "MUG" stamped accross their forehead. It was never intended as anything other than a stop-gap, never intended to bring anything to the table.
Looks like the real next-gen is only a couple/few short months away considering that is when ATI are due to release their R7XX and 4870 series cards, which have monster specs if these are anything approaching accurate http://www.crysis-online.com/forum/index.php?topic=23024.msg320774.
I get the feeling that 2008 is going to be a great year for the GPU market, and we are going to see some REAL performance monsters form both NV and ATI.
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Surely then they would have a monopoly which would mean we would have no choice other than to buy their cards.
, its one game of many that many people don#t place much weighting on anyway (i know for some its all that matters etc etc etc, ive learned that lesson the hard way yada yada).
