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G80 specs finally confirmed! NOT old news!

LoadsaMoney said:
unless your doing the easyrider way and using the step-up programme, as its definately worth it that way even if you have a high end card already, as as easy says its probably gona cost him about £75, now that for a G80 is steal. :cool:
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Yeah!

Do it easyriders way! :D
 
HangTime said:
By that logic they might as well make it 4gig on 2mbit memory interface :p
All a question of cost I'd imagine. There is no need for cards with 1gig RAM, and a 384bit memory interface should offer a big increase in bandwidth - I expect 512bit would be too expensive.
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True, I think its mainly as they have always doubled up in the past. (128bit to 256bit etc) 384bit just sounds weird - or maybe I am weird :p )
 
james.miller said:
which is exactly what id recommend to everybody. There's no logic in buying any card when its first release. If you do you either want to break records, or boast. and possibly both lol.






or my personal favourite, wait for the top end cards to drop in price and watch the price of the card it replaced plummet through the floor, ala x1800xt.
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I do it the other way.

I have the top cards have them a few months then sell them just at the right time.

Sold my 7900 GTX and got a 7950 GX2 for little outlay.

Now I'm in the position to get rid again and get the next gen for around 100 quid.

Of course you can wait,but waiting 6 months for say an 1900xt to drop to £180 is false econonmy IMO.

Thats near enough 200 quid outlay for an old card!

Better to either buy top end and sell on a few months (I see this as renting gfx cards) rather than waiting an spending 200 quid on a old card that will be worth buttons by the time you come to upgrade again.
 
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oweneades said:
True, I think its mainly as they have always doubled up in the past. (128bit to 256bit etc) 384bit just sounds weird - or maybe I am weird :p )
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its 512mb ram and a 256 bit interface for the gpu and 256mb/128bit for the new aa mode/something else

i think and what is the general idea.

I honestly cant decide if it worth moving from the x1900xtx to this or to the r600, selling off the current card has to be taken into account as well....
i think i will get this, see how it goes.
 
lay-z-boy said:
its 512mb ram and a 256 bit interface for the gpu and 256mb/128bit for the new aa mode/something else

i think and what is the general idea.

I honestly cant decide if it worth moving from the x1900xtx to this or to the r600, selling off the current card has to be taken into account as well....
i think i will get this, see how it goes.
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the 128bit 256mb sounds like it could be physics storage area or something else such as a shader scratch area like games like battlefield 2 etc benefit from.
 
easyrider said:
I do it the other way.

I have the top cards have them a few months then sell them just at the right time.

Sold my 7900 GTX and got a 7950 GX2 for little outlay.

Now I'm in the position to get rid again and get the next gen for around 100 quid.

Of course you can wait,but waiting 6 months for say an 1900xt to drop to £180 is false econonmy IMO.

Thats near enough 200 quid outlay for an old card!

Better to either buy top end and sell on a few months (I see this as renting gfx cards) rather than waiting an spending 200 quid on a old card that will be worth buttons by the time you come to upgrade again.
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Wise words and my plan going forward :D
 
Cyber-Mav said:
so if G80 is out in november will ati be following its classic tradition of being late and have r600 turn up in feb?
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Tradition? the only time i remember them being late was with the X1800 series.

the 9800's were out before the FX5950 ultras, the X800s were out the same time as the 6800's and the X1900's came out before the 7900s :confused: .
 
im on a differnt boat...thier are people out thier with nice systems atm...I curently have non...haha.i have £2.5k (squirrels) in bank and this may be the little nat that ushers me too press buy..
 
really wanna see the performance as it looks like it could be large step up. Shame ati is releasing next year
 
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