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GT300 rumours.

Im a bit surprised about the amount of on-board memory, as the current latest Nvidia card uses around 1,792 of total memory, so why would Nvidia then use even less memory on there new cards?
 
danceMB said:
Im a bit surprised about the amount of on-board memory, as the current latest Nvidia card uses around 1,792 of total memory, so why would Nvidia then use even less memory on there new cards?
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Depends - if you're talking about the 1792MB GTX275/260 cards then those aren't officially made by Nvidia - the GTX295 needs that much, because it can only use half of its memory, as the other half is just a duplication of the first half. Even then, we're only just beginning to see benefits from 1GB on new cards, we probably won't see a need for another doubling of memory until the generation after the next, I'd imagine.
 
psychas said:
but rumored 5870x2 specs would have 5400 GFLOPS :eek:
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That GFLOPS value above for the GT300 looks a bit low, from what I've heard for GPGPU its as good as 2x 295GTX (about 5% less)... which would put it closer to 4000GFLOPS for single precision.
 
Rroff said:
That GFLOPS value above for the GT300 looks a bit low, from what I've heard for GPGPU its as good as 2x 295GTX (about 5% less)... which would put it closer to 4000GFLOPS for single precision.
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See, now I think you might be getting carried away assuming a four-fold (even theoretical) performance increase from one generation in single core GPU performance.
 
Lightnix said:
See, now I think you might be getting carried away assuming a four-fold (even theoretical) performance increase from one generation in single core GPU performance.
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Thats for GPGPU type stuff rather than rendering. AFAIK for stuff like pixel and polygon fillrates, etc. its only double the current single cards.
 
Rroff said:
Thats for GPGPU type stuff rather than rendering. AFAIK for stuff like pixel and polygon fillrates, etc. its only double the current single cards.
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I am not sure about gpgpu as i don't use it, i hope they not going overboard on the gpgpu side and at the expense of the gaming performance.
From my point of view what it does in games is more importance than gpgpu.
 
Nvidia needs to concentrate on the performance and imagine quality like they always have done, if we are to see Nvidia compete or even beat ATI when they come out in October, all guns blazing. DX11 titles should have a marked improvement over all other games, maybe we will see a Crysis 2 with an improved Cryengine, with some improvements over the first Crysis, we would be treated to amazing visuals, even if the GTX295 could achieve a little over 10FPS ;)
 
PC gaming doesn't move as fast as it used to. I don't think we'll be seeing too much DX11 at least until the next gen of consoles are established.
 
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