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Originally Posted by dimentionalrift
ATI and its partners have already released several operational cards like the Radeon 2900xtx that use, not wisely, GDDR 4 memory architecture while Nvidia doesn't even have a prototype (atleast publicly). You can find in several place like in wikipedia rumours and pieces of real information that other than the fact that the 99-- series will be using the GT200 core (55nm BTW), they will also finally use GDDR 4 memory, but they will use it the right way. By my accounts GDDR 4 is about 50% more powerful than GDDR 3, which is the most advanced brand of memory Nvidia has to offer today. So, Nvidia really needs the 99-- series. There are also rumors for a 9900gx2 which might consist of two massively powerful cards with a possible 2GB GDDR4 memory (1GB per GPU) and maybe even an experimental 1024bit interface (512bit per GPU)...who knows.
P.S
The 9800gx2 is more than 30% more powerful than the 8800ULTRA, just check out the films on youtube and compare the performance on high quality and 1900x1200 res. Don't be so disrespectful of it, especially since it costs about 85$ less than an ultra.
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well, I knew gt200 is 55nm (duh)
I was saying that may be the only difference in cores between g92 and g200
the 9800gx2 is %30 faster than an ultra, woop de doo
the ultra is what? around
17 months
old and it takes a hackjob dual card that's supposedly two successors to the 8800gtx in one to beat it by a reasonable amount
what's the real point of ddr4 when the memory bus is inferior to the last gen cards, 256....that's a big downstep
sure it will increase performance, but upping the bus width would do much more
now for the real resons why nvidia sucks this round,
they got angry because of ATI naming a die shrink by a new series name
(the 2900-3870 move) ...even though the 3870 brought dx10.1 support
now nvidia to spite ATI's economical move decide to release the g92 under the 8800 name instead of it's original destination as the 9800
to further spite ati, they witheld dx10.1
btw, these rumours are taken from internal leaked nvidia e-mails (pulled from the inq, yeh inq sucks)
if nvidia went the original path of debuting g92 on the 9800 with dx10.1 then maybe it would have had some impact
even though the numbers are still a pitiful increase over the last gen
I hope you're right about the 9900
untill then my moneyrolls stay in my sockdrawer