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Nvidia 8900 Series

Cartho said:
That is old news
Nvidia are no longer doing an 8900 series
They are skipping straight to G90
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:( don't remind me!

I was really looking forward to getting an 8900. It's the suckz0rs!
 
They probably think ATi have delayed their R600 as it was nowhere near the GTX, so now they trying to get closer, so they probably said' **** it, if their R600 cant beat our 8 month old card, well go straight to G90'. :D
 
Judging from YellowBeard's sig, it seems that he has been locking himself up in the tech office for far too long.
 
LoadsaMoney said:
They probably think ATi have delayed their R600 as it was nowhere near the GTX, so now they trying to get closer, so they probably said' **** it, if their R600 cant beat our 8 month old card, well go straight to G90'. :D
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Or, conversely, Nvidia realise that a simple clockspeed increase and die-shrink would not be enough to compete with r600. Hence they decide to push forward development on the G90 range which they feel can compete. The further r600 delay might have made this a realistic option.

Basically, there is no way to tell. But the specs on r600 are very impressive (despite the insanely high rumoured pwoer requirements), and I would be extremely surprised if it didn't beat an 8800GTX by at least 25%.
 
LoadsaMoney said:
They probably think ATi have delayed their R600 as it was nowhere near the GTX, so now they trying to get closer, so they probably said' **** it, if their R600 cant beat our 8 month old card, well go straight to G90'. :D
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Why do people keep saying that the G80 is 8 months old. As far as I was aware it was released at the beginning of November making it 4 months old.

Have we heard that Nvidia is not doing an 8900 series from anywhere other than the Inquirer?

I'm not saying that they are it is just that it is not always the most reliable source.

In any event it looks like they have just changed their minds on what to call it. The core sounds like it will be the same as G80 just on 65nm with GDDR4 memory which is what we would have exected from the 8900 series anyway.
 
its Loadsamoney in every thread saying the same old tripe. the G81 is skipped, straight to G90, there is ONE article with no proof, no quotes, no anything at all to indicate its true whatsoever.

the G90, as the rumours go is exactly the bloomin same as the G81 but on a smaller process than the G80. that is all the G81 was going to be anyway, call it G81, G90, G14000, if its the same spec it does not matter what you will call it. the rumour goes that G81 was going to be 80nm, now its that the G90 will be 65nm and not to far away. even though TSMC has only just announced making 65nm edram, lower process's are far far easier to use on very very simple design couple million edram transistors and what, the G80 is over 700 million transistors and 100's of times more complex, theres no capacity or company in the world that seems capable of mass producing a 65nm high end gpu.

the only theoretical differences between G81/G90 would be process size, and therefore possibly clock speeds, and there was a guess then might fit a 512mbit bus in there, which would MATCH x2800xtx specs, not surpass or blow away, but MATCH.

fact is the 80nm process takes very little effort to impliment, 65nm is incredibly difficult, intel have a huge design team and it took them a couple years to go 90-65nm. amd are taking ages to go from 90-65nm, but nvidia, with a chip with more transistors will do it in just what, 6-10 months? bull, it probo will go 65nm for its next gen core, would be mad not to, but theres no facilities, and no time for them to make it anytime soon. the 80nm drop for very VERY little time and effort increases profits for them on their entire range. it makes no sense to keep making 90nm 8800 cards for the next 6 months while it doesn't have to.
 
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I couldn't really understand what he was saying.. my mind kept falling into potholes as I read.

Let's just wait and see what nVidia do. tbh I'm not sure anymore whether or not the R600 will be mindblowing but it will result in price drops for the 8xxx range of nvidia cards and that will be welcome no matter what.
 
Marc Fraser said:
Why do people keep saying that the G80 is 8 months old. .
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No one has said its 8 months old, i said when R600 comes out the G80 will be 8 months old, as the R600 is rumoured to be June, so if it is indeed June, the G80 will be 8 months old. ;)

As said above though its all rumours, lets just wait and see, R600 could destroy the G80, we do not know yet till we see it, tbh i hope it does.
 
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LoadsaMoney said:
No one has said its 8 months old, i said when R600 comes out the G80 will be 8 months old, as the R600 is rumoured to be June, so if it is indeed June, the G80 will be 8 months old. ;)

As said above though its all rumours, lets just wait and see, R600 could destroy the G80, we do not know yet till we see it, tbh i hope it does.
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You have said it is eight months old.

LoadsaMoney said:
They probably think ATi have delayed their R600 as it was nowhere near the GTX, so now they trying to get closer, so they probably said' **** it, if their R600 cant beat our 8 month old card, well go straight to G90'
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And November to June is only seven months not eight.
 
Yes it will be 8 months old IN JUNE, it came out beginning of November, so you may as well make it 8 months as you would class the whole of November as a month without a reply seen as it came out at the start of it, so November, December, Jan, Feb, March, April, May, June, that makes 8, and if R600 does come out in June, then Nvidia will be saying it cant beat our 8 month old card, so where the hell do you get 4 from, that would mean the G80 came out in about Feb, it clearly didnt. :confused: :D
 
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