Monday, July 7th 2008
NVIDIA Plans to Nuke R700
NVIDIA Plans to Nuke R700?
Let's face it, the ATI RV770 and its derivatives have become a rage. Everybody loves this chip and wants a card based on this, be it the card that made NVIDIA slash their prices, the HD4850 or the HD4870 which rivals the GeForce GTX 260 at a decent price. In surveys conducted by several websites, be it TweakTown or Hexus.net, majority community members chose ATI as a brand over NVIDIA, rougly indicating that the HD4000 series has done an excellent repair job with ATI and its brand value.
Nothing (exciting) is going NVIDIA's way these days, their notebook graphics division has taken a beating over the recent faulty parts issue. The NVDA stock is a little volatile at the stock market these days, after the company announced it predicts weaker earnings this quarter financial year. Here's something to ponder: If NVIDIA predicts weaker earnings, how come talks are they have something to counter the R700, which AMD already made statements about, saying it will "overwhelm the GeForce GTX 280"?
NordicHardware reports that something is in the making from NVIDIA, while not exactly sure, it just could be a 55nm fab processed GPU, could be G200b (55nm die-shrunk GeForce GTX 280?). While unreliable sources have always been pointing that NVIDIA has a very shallow roadmap for the time-being, and that we can't expect something revolutionary anytime soon, contradictory reports already followed, again from NordicHardware in a report that NVIDIA could release DirectX 10.1 GPU's by late Q4 2008 to spring 2009, but a point we would have ignored then but holds the key to this news is "NVIDIA could implement GDDR5 memory within 2008". How come they didn't mix the GDDR5 bit with the late-Q4 '08 early Q1 '09 for DX 10.1 GPU part? Does it imply that in the very near future we could just see a current generation NVIDIA GPU with GDDR5 memory? So could the new product NVIDIA reveals sometime in September be the one that's a die-shrunk G200 with GDDR5 memory? Time will tell. What can be said for sure is that NVIDIA is not in a comfortable position right now, definitly not with the R700 dressing up to go to office.With inputs from NordicHardware
Let's face it, the ATI RV770 and its derivatives have become a rage. Everybody loves this chip and wants a card based on this, be it the card that made NVIDIA slash their prices, the HD4850 or the HD4870 which rivals the GeForce GTX 260 at a decent price. In surveys conducted by several websites, be it TweakTown or Hexus.net, majority community members chose ATI as a brand over NVIDIA, rougly indicating that the HD4000 series has done an excellent repair job with ATI and its brand value.
Nothing (exciting) is going NVIDIA's way these days, their notebook graphics division has taken a beating over the recent faulty parts issue. The NVDA stock is a little volatile at the stock market these days, after the company announced it predicts weaker earnings this quarter financial year. Here's something to ponder: If NVIDIA predicts weaker earnings, how come talks are they have something to counter the R700, which AMD already made statements about, saying it will "overwhelm the GeForce GTX 280"?
NordicHardware reports that something is in the making from NVIDIA, while not exactly sure, it just could be a 55nm fab processed GPU, could be G200b (55nm die-shrunk GeForce GTX 280?). While unreliable sources have always been pointing that NVIDIA has a very shallow roadmap for the time-being, and that we can't expect something revolutionary anytime soon, contradictory reports already followed, again from NordicHardware in a report that NVIDIA could release DirectX 10.1 GPU's by late Q4 2008 to spring 2009, but a point we would have ignored then but holds the key to this news is "NVIDIA could implement GDDR5 memory within 2008". How come they didn't mix the GDDR5 bit with the late-Q4 '08 early Q1 '09 for DX 10.1 GPU part? Does it imply that in the very near future we could just see a current generation NVIDIA GPU with GDDR5 memory? So could the new product NVIDIA reveals sometime in September be the one that's a die-shrunk G200 with GDDR5 memory? Time will tell. What can be said for sure is that NVIDIA is not in a comfortable position right now, definitly not with the R700 dressing up to go to office.With inputs from NordicHardware
60 Comments on NVIDIA Plans to Nuke R700
- Christine
But it is because of this article that we can produce such speculation :p
You want news? Here you go. Enjoy news :rolleyes:: forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=65071
I guess NV is waiting for the thing to come out in order to give us some solid info on their beast. It wouldn't make any sense for them to do it before the 4870x2 was out :rolleyes:
Some of us still seem to focus more on what side is winning in a GPU war rather than actually appreciating the performance benefits and competition/prices that a change in supremacy, albeit sometimes temporary brings................I'll go back to sleep for another 2 months now dont worry! :o
anyhow - I don't truly understand why everyone wants to be shocked over this news . . . I'm sure nVidia has had a new fab process waiting in the wings for a while now; they've been sandbagging themselves for quite some time.
It's not unsual over the last couple of years, every time something new came out to threaten their reign, within a couple of weeks we heard an official report of new green camp hardware being released that was running a "revised" setup.
Also, we've known now for a few weeks that nVidia is capable of running GDDR5 - but they haven't had a need to go that route. I'm sure they were also capable of running GDDR4 for the longest time to, but seeing as how there was no threatening competition from ATI, there was no need.
The only thing releasing a new fab process GPU, or GDDR5 equiped cards will do is level the playing field a little more, but price to the consumer, I'm sure, will still be atrocious. If nothing else, this all will just buy nVidia some more time to redesign something better . . . this is their way of letting their fanbois know they're not going down this round without a fight.
And i think the key word here is PLAN, doesn't mean they will
I like how NV can sandbag its stuff, shows gusto :D