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Hard launch till February
NVIDIA'S latest graphic offering should start sampling as soon as next week. It's all in the promises now but we have a reason to believe that Nvidia is on the schedule with this one. We also heard that the chip should work around 700 MHz frequency and as we reported before it should feature 32 pixel pipelines.
Nvidia scheduled its launch and world wide availability in stores for February 2006 but if all goes well it might actually launch at the same time as ATI, in the last week of January.
Nvidia sounded happy about 90 nanometre marchitecture and it thinks that its yields are good but we still have to see to believe. ATI is shipping thousands or R520 based cards and they are all available while Nvidia still struggles to ship any of its ghost Geforce 7800 GTX 512 cards. They are still on hold and it sounds quite dead to us as in three weeks Nvidia plans to release even faster card that should come in the same price range and it should cost roughly the same, at least we hope it should cost the same.
The biggest mystery now is what is faster 32 real pipelines brute force or 48 pixel Shaders, we guess both Nvidia and ATI's approaches will have its positive and negative things. We expect that Nvidia will win some of the benchmarks with its G71 while ATI will win some with R580, Radeon X1900XTX.
Hard launch till February
NVIDIA'S latest graphic offering should start sampling as soon as next week. It's all in the promises now but we have a reason to believe that Nvidia is on the schedule with this one. We also heard that the chip should work around 700 MHz frequency and as we reported before it should feature 32 pixel pipelines.
Nvidia scheduled its launch and world wide availability in stores for February 2006 but if all goes well it might actually launch at the same time as ATI, in the last week of January.
Nvidia sounded happy about 90 nanometre marchitecture and it thinks that its yields are good but we still have to see to believe. ATI is shipping thousands or R520 based cards and they are all available while Nvidia still struggles to ship any of its ghost Geforce 7800 GTX 512 cards. They are still on hold and it sounds quite dead to us as in three weeks Nvidia plans to release even faster card that should come in the same price range and it should cost roughly the same, at least we hope it should cost the same.
The biggest mystery now is what is faster 32 real pipelines brute force or 48 pixel Shaders, we guess both Nvidia and ATI's approaches will have its positive and negative things. We expect that Nvidia will win some of the benchmarks with its G71 while ATI will win some with R580, Radeon X1900XTX.
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