g80 on agp?

[Fr0dders]

By keeping it pcie nvidia can practically guarantee sales of their mobo chipsets.

So I think keeping new cards on pcie is not only a way of pushing their own products to the consumer, but also forcing the consumer to get up to date.

AGP is a bit long in the tooth now, it's not like it's going to make a come back.

agreed

look at how nvidia is marketing the new nforce 6 and the 8800 together on nearly all the major e-tailers. Theres a big push for buyers to get both together

i highly doubt you'll see an 8800 card of any power on AGP. there will probably be an 8600 GS but not an 8800 i would have thought.

 

[FreeStream]

Where did you get that info?

Over at XS its been said that its only tapping 80% of the power of the GPU, some people with Kentsfields say its limit by them, and they are at 4ghz.

G80 is very powerful, and is CPU limited. An X2 would limit a X1900 up to a point.

2.4ghz X2 to 3.6ghz Conroe in BF2 at 6xAA and 16xAF at 1600x1200, with a X1900XTX = from low 30s to high 50s

 

[z0mbi3]

I still find it hard to believe. Need to see proof.

edit: Seen link above, reading now.


Hmm. Well its not really proof, but if it is true I'm a bit disappointed. I mean ~500 on a gfx card then the cost of a new mobo, ram and cpu

I don't think its limited to any great extent anyway. If it was / is now, presumably if existing software made popper use of multi threading we'd be having a different discussion?

 

[edgaruy1980]

AGP on a G80 is not probable, but the ati R600 could as ATi wants add a gpu for geometrical computations, so will release pressure from the CPU, means the card will work in mathematical equations to help the cpu, and this will push away the Ageia cards.
Also I read the X1950 pro specs and they are better than the 7800GS+, both runs on 46Gb/s and the fill rate is greater on the nvidia card, just the BIG PLUS is HDCP.

 

[ernysmuntz]

CPU limitation isn't that bad tbh, if your CPU can maintain a 60+fps it is good enough, sure you will never see 150+fps in a game but what it does allow you to do is use lots of AA nad AF without a performance hit.

Cheers yeah thats the plan...AA\AF bonanza...