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Nvidia 9800 codename D8E due for Q1 2008

What would the price be of the d8e be if the price of a 9800 gtx is up to $469.00 ? Is this the enthusiast verson as the original Op's statement does not read too well?
Fudzilla link talks of a D8M, D8V and a D8E. The 9800 GTs Is presumably the mainstream version then?
 
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Greebo said:
6800 to 7800 13 months
7800 to 8800 13 months

Nearer a year than 15 to 18 months?
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Don't make things up try and back up your argument.

5800 was released January 2003
6800 was released April 14th 2004 - 15 months
7800 was released June 22nd 2005 - 14 months
8800 was release November 8th 2006 - 17months

Taken from wiki.

Jokester
 
Jokester said:
Don't make things up try and back up your argument.

5800 was released January 2003
6800 was released April 14th 2004 - 15 months
7800 was released June 22nd 2005 - 14 months
8800 was release November 8th 2006 - 17months

Taken from wiki.

Jokester
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haha owned tbh
 
Jokester said:
Don't make things up try and back up your argument.

5800 was released January 2003
6800 was released April 14th 2004 - 15 months
7800 was released June 22nd 2005 - 14 months
8800 was release November 8th 2006 - 17months

Taken from wiki.

Jokester
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Wasn't making it up, I googled each card and found reviews of them and looked at the month of review. Not my fault that doesn't match wiki.

And since when has wiki been it's in there so it has to be right?

There are as many things wrong in wiki as right imo.

Even looking at your results from wiki though, it certainly isn't the case of every two years. The average from yours is nearly 15 months.
 
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KNiVES said:
Yes, but those are correct. You can look them up from official Nvida sources.
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Now that I would have believed so I will stand corrected if they match. I tried to find Nvidia sources myself but failed so had to go by review dates.

Should have spent more time searching before posting but it honestly wasn't a deliberate attempt to deceive, just a honest mistake.
 
And before anybody pawns me about my other statement about doubling of gfx power, from Toms Hardware page (I know not every rates it but where else can you find a comparison of a 6800 and 8800?) and new drivers have probably increased the gap as well.

3dmark06 sm2 1600 x 1200:

6800 Ultra: 338
7800 GTX: 1268 275% increase
8800 GTX: 3212 158% increase

3dmark06 sm3 1600 x 1200:

6800 Ultra: 676
7800 GTX: 1573 132% increase
8800 GTX: 2801 78% increase

6800 Ultra: 768.2 fps overall
7800 GTX: 1516.7 fps overall 97% increase
8800 GTX: 2281.9 fps overall 50% increase

So why shouldn't the trend for each new generation be double the old one?

And for the record Moores law was a doubling of power every year not every two years.
 
Moore's Law describes an important trend in the history of computer hardware: that the number of transistors that can be inexpensively placed on an integrated circuit is increasing exponentially, doubling approximately every two years.[1] The observation was first made by Intel co-founder Gordon E. Moore in a 1965 paper.[2][3] The trend has continued for more than half a century and is not expected to stop for a decade at least and perhaps much longer.[4]

Almost every measure of the capabilities of digital electronic devices is linked to Moore's Law: processing speed, memory capacity, even the resolution of LCD screens and digital cameras. All of these are improving at (roughly) exponential rates as well. This has dramatically changed the usefulness of digital electronics in nearly every segment of the world economy.[5] Moore's Law describes this driving force of technological and social change in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

:cool:
 
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Actually, Moore's Law is a doubling of transistors per circuit every 2 years :o.

Jokester
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His original law was a doubling of transistors every year in 1965. He revised it in 1975 to every two years. ;)

And with the increasing performance of transistors this was later changed to a doubling of performance every 18 months.
 
Greebo said:
His original law was a doubling of transistors every year in 1965. He revised it in 1975 to every two years. ;)

And with the increasing performance of transistors this was later changed to a doubling of performance every 18 months.
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Yeah I know, but Moore's law as it stands today, is a doubling of transistor count every 2 years ;).

Jokester
 
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