Graphic Cards G71 : News thread

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Source : Xbitlabs

Nvidia Readies Answer for ATI’s Radeon X1900-Series

In a bid to compete with its arch-rival ATI Technologies in the high-end segment, Nvidia Corp. said it would introduce a new high-performance graphics processing unit (GPU) family as early as in March, 2006. While technical details of the part are unclear the claim itself means that the company is confident in its roadmap.

Taiwanese web-site DigiTimes reported citing Paul Sun, general manager of Nvidia Taiwan that the leading designer of GPUs is “scheduled to introduce a new GPU series to target the high-end segment in early March”. The representative for the company declined to go into details regarding the product and its specifications, but earlier it was expected that Nvidia would try to unleash a new GPU to compete against ATI’s Radeon X1900-series products.

It is unclear when Mr. Sun did his comment, but it was published on the day when ATI Technologies introduced its Radeon X1900-series graphics processors, which, according to analysts and test results, outperforms Nvidia’s flagship GeForce 7800 family of products in loads of benchmarks.

The fresh code-named G71 graphics processor and what is claimed to be the GeForce 7900-series product lineup are expected to be officially announced during CeBIT show that is held in Hannover, Germany from March 9th to March 15th, according to information published earlier. The high-end GeForce 7900 GTX is projected to feature 32 pixel processors, operate in the range of 700MHz – 750MHz and come equipped with 1600MHz – 1800MHz GDDR3 memory.

Some observers doubted that Nvidia would truly release its new GeForce 7900-series products during the CeBIT show, as the event would steal a lot of attention away from Nvidia’s new top-of-the-range offerings. Furthermore, journalists may not be able to cover the newcomer properly, as leading web-sites in Europe, a huge market for high-end graphics cards, send editors to cover the world’s largest technology exhibition.
 
So hold on a second..

No 7900GTX? Theyre jumping to a 8800? :S...

I didnt really understand what was said there, is the G71 coming or not? :mad:.
 
i need to know when wil this stop ... each and every companies r always ahead they just release stuffs slowly to gain the market grr cant thy just make a 96 pipeline card with 96 pixel shaders 1024 mb ddr3 memory and stuffs so tht pls will buy one piece at about 75 thousand for 10 years to come not 25 thousand every 2 3 years
 
Source : VR-zone

There is no doubt NVIDIA will be launching the 90nm G71 in March and the official name will be GeForce 7900. We came to know that there will be 2 versions; the GeForce 7900 GTX 512MB and the GeForce 7900 256MB.

The GeForce 7900 GTX will be launched at CeBIT on 9th of March while the GeForce 7900 GT will be launched later on 20th March most likely together with the GeForce 7600 series.

There are little information about the pipelines and clock speeds yet. The current rumours implied a 32 pipes G71 so if that is true, 7900 GT could be 24 pipes. We overheard a yield issue that leads to the delay so it could probably meant a high core clock or too many pipelines causing the problem
 
dipdude said:
The GeForce 7900 GTX will be launched at CeBIT on 9th of March while the GeForce 7900 GT will be launched later on 20th March most likely together with the GeForce 7600 series.
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I might get one of them 7600 cards. I'm really looking forward to seeing how they perform. And I hope they'll have quiet cooling solutions.
 
goldenfrag said:
Yea vandal, sure, your poor eh. I can see that in your Rig's.
Ill sell this shit for cheap :eek:hyeah:
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yeah but after those rigs got no money left bro, spent my inheritance...:bleh: all of it....arms outstretched for that card......(7800GTX or 7900GTX...) How about buying a X1900XTX and sellin it in 3-4 months..eh goldy??? whaddya say?
 
Vr-Zone posted geforce 7600 specs a while back.
http://www.vr-zone.com/index.php?i=3218

The 7600 GS has 8 pipes and 3 vertex shaders and is clocked at 500MHz core and 1GHz memory while the 7600GT has 12 pipes and 5 vertex shaders clocked at 500/1000MHz too. Preliminary tests showed that a 7600GS will outperform a GeForce 6600GT by some 10-15%, and the 7600GT will score around 4.8-5.2K on 3DMark05.

This is pretty good as the 7600 GS beats the 6600 GT by 10-15% with the same pipes/vs at the same clocks. then the 7600 GT should beat the 6800 GS by 25-30% or more i guess as the 6800 GS runs at 425 core.
 
copied from some other forum

The beginning of March will bring CeBIT, which goes from March 9 through 16. Apparently, through quite a few rumors and even a little hint by NVIDIA, the replacement for the 7800 GTX 512 will be released. This will be the first large 90 nm part from NVIDIA (as the 6100 series and 7300/7400 are all smaller 90 nm parts) and quite a few folks around seem pretty confident that this part will be very fast, and have some new features to boot to keep it competitive with the ATI X1900. As I had mentioned in the forums as well, spy shots of the 7600 series of cards were also leaked. I am guessing that the top end (7900?) and 7600 parts will be released about the same time. If I were a guessing man, I would say that the 7600 high end part will probably land in performance between a standard 6800 and a 6800 GT, all of this using a 128 bit memory bus running high speed GDDR-3 (probably between 650 MHz and 700 MHz- giving it 1300 MHz to 1400 MHz effective performance). 22.4 GB/sec max of effective memory bandwidth is not bad at all (think 9700 Pro/9800 Pro memory performance). Hopefully these two series of cards will feature improved filtering techniques, not to mention the ability to handle AA and FP16 HDR at the same time. We probably have less than a month to find out. NVIDIA currently has the market covered in products stretching from the budget to the high end, and the midrange is well represented by the 6600 GT, 6800 GS, and the 7800 GT (not to mention leftover 6800, 6800 GT, and the new 7800 GS). The low end has the 6200 TC, 7300 GS (now out in good numbers), and the 6600 DDR-2 (still an excellent buy for the budget enthusiast). Currently things look a little weak at the top end with the 7800 GTX, which is nearing 9 months of age and looking a little expensive as compared to the X1900 XT and X1800 XT. The 7800 GTX 512 is still selling out whenever product is available, and NVIDIA has committed to shipping as many of those as humanly possible. Of course with the new GPU's coming out in a likely March timeframe, this situation will change dramatically. The 7800 GT is already hitting the $279 price point, and we can expect to see the 7800 GTX 256 version to start ticking away below $399. I highly doubt the 7800 GTX 512 SKU will survive after March though

On the ATI side there are now rumors of the X1900 GTO, which will feature a new chip (R590- info courtesy of The Inq.). I find this bit of info quite likely, as ATI has a glaring hole in their SM 3.0 lineup between the $199 and $400 mark. While the X1800 XL is supposed to take up position there, this card is becoming increasingly rare, and when it is available they are often selling for above $400. I had mentioned this hole for ATI in my Feb. 9 post, and its pretty obvious that ATI could not continue to let this situation simmer, especially in such an important market section (good sales and good margins). The X1900 GTO looks to be a part that will shave off portions of the R580, probably making it a 12 ROP/36 shader/6 vertex/12 texture unit (did you follow that?). It looks to come out in 256 MB size, and we will probably see some AIB's put 512 MB in certain versions. Needless to say, this part will fill that void between $249 and $400 with a couple of different SKU's. Again, I am quite pleased by the amount of X1900 product on the market, and I am very curious to see how it is selling so far. Unfortunately, I can't really get any concrete sell through numbers from anyone, so I guess I will have to wait for the Peddie report on high end sales to come out next quarter.
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Hey rahul, do u think the x1800 GTO will have high clocks, say 600 mhz or maybe even greater? because if its a 12-1-3-1 config and the clocks are 500 mhz, judging from the performance of the AIW x1900 it probably will just beat a 6800 gs by a relatively small margin apart from games like FEAR and Splinter Cell:CT where it will convincingly beat the GS
 
As we all know from the past few years in the CPU business, competition is a very good thing for consumers and we all benefit from it. Even with questionable practices from Intel, the fierce competitiveness AMD has demonstrated these past few years has been excellent for consumers in providing more options, increased the speed race for better and faster technology, and kept costs very reasonable.

The same can be said for the video card industry, as for a time, 3dfx and Nvidia were at the only game in town. The surge of ATI since the Radeon 9700 has been a beneficial development for all consumers much like the CPU race. That said, everyone knows that 2005 was no banner year for the Canadian based company, but earlier this year ATI came roaring back with the Radeon X1900XT and XTX as well as All-in-Wonder........

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