GeForce 9900 GTX & GTS Slated For July Launch

[halo112358]

512bit is what attracts me to the GT280, but the price

Man.. you do realize that the bandwidth on that bus is bandwidth * frequency, right?

512bit doesn't mean anything by itself, it's just an out of context number. If you were discussing two buses with devices running at the same frequency, one bus at 512bit and one bus at 256bit - then there might be something interesting there. Really though you could get the same bandwidth by doubling the frequency of the 256bit bus.

So this isn't a case where "MOAR BITS EQUALS MOAR BETTAR."

[annihilat0r]

Looking at the pictures, do you think the aftermarket heatsinks avaliable today can be used on it or they will make new ones for it?

This GPU is much bigger, I don't think so

[Philip_J_Fry]

Well said, micro-stutter=no thx. Perhaps NVIDIA can fix this ?

I remember when I had my Voodoo 2's in SLI and no micro-stutter, so perhaps they can achieve it. Mite be selling my 780i soon otherwise, waiting for new SLI tests on GTX200.

yeah agree, read those "micro stuttering for SLI CF" thread in beyond3d,

not to mention that vista driver support for games, especially new games.. i remember it took a long time for Crysis to see some micro gain in both XP and Vista (for my 8800GTS 640 SLI), and the gain is soo minimal, i dont think ill ever use SLI again after seeing how little gain it provides, and how it restrict user to nv based boards... i mean sure it scores more 3dmark.. i care more about real world gaming performance

for me if GTX 280 suffers no bandwidth bottleneck from PCI-E 1.1 for single card, ill prolly get that and wait for the next single card monster... GTX 380? R800 single chip?

[Jazzy jeff]

P4608 -- My 3D Monster Fusion can score that high

[annihilat0r]

Well said, micro-stutter=no thx. Perhaps NVIDIA can fix this ?

I remember when I had my Voodoo 2's in SLI and no micro-stutter, so perhaps they can achieve it. Mite be selling my 780i soon otherwise, waiting for new SLI tests on GTX200.

It is easy, indeed. Just tell the driver to hold off frame requests from the second GPU until a certain time passes. This way, every frame will be sync'd.

But NO!!!! FPS will be lower. So neither NVidia nor ATI applies this very easy solution, just to keep those rocketing SLI/CF results in review pages.

And when FPS goes any lower, there's no incentive to buy SLI anyway.

Multi-GPU sucks. Just go with a 4870 or GT200.

[Philip_J_Fry]

But NO!!!! FPS will be lower. So neither NVidia nor ATI applies this very easy solution, just to keep those rocketing SLI/CF results in review pages.

yeah since SLI,CF = extra cost(over single card) of 1 more graphics card, and possibly $100 more on the motherboard.. they definitely wanna make the case that it can reach 1.8x the fps of single card

but even with the micro stuttering, Crysis V high DX10 Vista on 8800GTS SLI still shows little performance gain for SLI over single card, not that single card is any good, but for another $100 + cost of another GFX card, i would like to see a lot more performance gain thats all

just my 2cents

[fiveprime]

I dont understand this vantage crap, I like just having the numbers.

[Philip_J_Fry]

yeah so like P6400 = high profile ??, and X4600 = extreme profile??

[fiveprime]

How well future proofed is vantage? Because it has this letter system cant it become maxed out? I like being able to run benches that I had from my first computer to see how ive progressed, like am3, first score 17k, current score 200k. Plus I think that 06 will still be more important as many people do not have vista yet.

[Polizei]

Nice looking shroud, I suppose.

They really need to clean the dust out of the CPU heatsink if you look at the second link in the OP.

[WhiteFireDragon]

wow placement of the power connectors is a big turnoff. makes it almost impossible for cable management

[Hornet331]

yeah so like P6400 = high profile ??, and X4600 = extreme profile??

P=performance H=High X=Extreme.

[Philip_J_Fry]

wow so as someone suggested in the RV7700 thread that 4850 scored P6400.. then its pretty bad isnt?? if its true

[annihilat0r]

It's higher than a 9800GTX.

[Philip_J_Fry]

i thought ultra score like 6400+, so yeah 4850 is pretty much an 8800ultra isnt it?? after 1+ year since the launch of ultra

[Hornet331]

9800GTX/8800 Ultra score from high 5xxx to mid 6xxx, depending on the cpu.

[annihilat0r]

I think 4850 is more of an equivalent to 8800GTX/Ultra.

[Hornet331]

I think 4850 is more of an equivalent to 8800GTX/Ultra.

how do you know, the only score we saw was from an heavily oced 4850.

I'll wait for the 17th and see how it performs.

[annihilat0r]

Actually I based that guess on my previous guesstimates. I guess 4870 will be around two times 3870, which puts 4850 somewhere near a G80 GTX.

[Jowy Atreides]

The new graphics demo running on the gtx 260

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=K9gwJwCNvT8

I got tired of the fakes and uploaded

[Tim]

The new graphics demo running on the gtx 280

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=K9gwJwCNvT8

I got tired of the fakes and uploaded

Very cool.

[865pe]

The new graphics demo running on the gtx 280

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=K9gwJwCNvT8

I got tired of the fakes and uploaded

upload anohter site? youtube türkey close.

[Jowy Atreides]

upload anohter site? youtube türkey close.

The video is nothing special, you're not missing much

just when I see fake spam videos by asusEAX7900GTX and suprnova13 with 60,000 views
it kinda makes me furious


someone ban those fools now

[clonez]

i upped it on rapidshare

http://rapidshare.com/files/11997794...AKES-.rar.html

[Philip_J_Fry]

The video is nothing special, you're not missing much

just when I see fake spam videos by asusEAX7900GTX and suprnova13 with 60,000 views
it kinda makes me furious


someone ban those fools now

lol qft man, since u uped it to youtube, i thought i might actually find something there, regarding GTX 280, so i typed "GTX 280" , and bam all results are fake, lol that fake one by "asusEAX7900GTX" was precious, rickrolled