What do you hope the next gen cards bring ...

[strumpusplunket]

I want next gen cards to bring on games that will actually require all of their poly-pushing tesselating power at "normal" resolutions!

I was very pleased to be able to grab a card that will easily power all my games at 1680x1050 for just £120, but for the next gen for my res or 1900x1200... what do I care if the next gen are 15% faster, 30% faster or even 80% faster? I don't need that power unless I want extreme resolution, eyefinity or 3D gaming.

Give me some games that make me want to get a card that's 50% more powerful than a GTX580! Now that would be sweet!

 

[Mr. May]

I want next gen cards to bring on games that will actually require all of their poly-pushing tesselating power at "normal" resolutions!

I was very pleased to be able to grab a card that will easily power all my games at 1680x1050 for just £120, but for the next gen for my res or 1900x1200... what do I care if the next gen are 15% faster, 30% faster or even 80% faster? I don't need that power unless I want extreme resolution, eyefinity or 3D gaming.

Give me some games that make me want to get a card that's 50% more powerful than a GTX580! Now that would be sweet!

+1 no need for better gpus atm no game out there struggles with the hardware out now so what is the need ? bring on crysis 2 even though that will probably be a consol port and run and look like crap

 

[siege2]

I would like the next generation of GPU's to have a built in teasmaid so it can make me a cuppa now and again.

Defiantly a Teas maid and some crumpets with that

 

[mrteabag]

Better performance for a lower price

wow
are we really in line for this much of a jump ?
60 - 80% ???

as small self contained watercooling loop would be nice to see, all within a dual slot card

I don't see how that would be possible? You might as well just have the heatsink.

 

[garyfl]

dont really know the ins and outs of the tech, but i wish for more polygons on screen, and better textures, truer physics etc, seems the gfx card industry is turtling along atm. ever since the release of 360/ps3. things were doing so well too.

 

[scrlk]

At the moment, I feel that graphics technology is in the 'Pentium 4' era - that is hot and powerful. I hope soon in the future (3-5 gens) that we start seeing multicore GPUs that can thread fuse which is running two cores for one process. Within 6-7 gens, I hope rudimentary raytracing capabilities will be introduced which would make use of our 4 core GPUs.

 

[Sidney James]

Holographics for films would be nice.As for power I'd like a posted spec of 250w max to keep the greens quiet and a mains power connector (with a label saying 'not to be used' of course)for 1kw uber overclocking.

 

[Sidney James]

Oh, I forgot the cooling!,well most of us have a decent watercooling loop in the form of central heating, let's kill two birds with one stone.

 

[Marine-RX179]

I hope for ARM to join the battle on the gaming graphic industry...it will shake up both AMD/ATI and Nvidia and forces them to deliver better products, or at least at lower prices

 

[shaffaaf27]

considering we are jumping from 40nm to 28, then i want a 4870x2 performance but with no PCIE connector, called a 7670. So in other words, a 5970 = a 6 pin pcie 7770, and tri 6970s = 6870 with 6+6 pin, and the dual gpu 7970, at 6 6970s.

 

[Shayper]

Decent drivers at launch! How has no-one else mentioned this?

 

[Broken Hope]

At the moment, I feel that graphics technology is in the 'Pentium 4' era - that is hot and powerful. I hope soon in the future (3-5 gens) that we start seeing multicore GPUs that can thread fuse which is running two cores for one process. Within 6-7 gens, I hope rudimentary raytracing capabilities will be introduced which would make use of our 4 core GPUs.

GPUs are already massively parallel, multi-core GPUs make no sense at all

 

[xiphrex]

I agree with the guy who said gpus are like in the P4 era at the moment - hopefully we will start seeing multi-core gpus that work on all games without need for driver profiles or whatever.