NV40 specs : 16x1 architecture!

[SupaMan]

Originally posted by Hollywood
I know the difference...PCIX is easier to type. I use the X for Express like we use the X for Xtreme.

PCI-X was a server and workstation-based solution for higher data bandwidth while retaining full backward PCI compatability. However...since it's deader than JFK, when someone is talking about PCIX in Feb of 2004, we generally get what they're talking about.

:-\ have to disagree, a newPCI-X is coming, along with PCIe, so interchanging the two still creates confusion.

[SupaMan]

Originally posted by Hollywood
Why don't the companies ever get cool on us and simply dub an technology by a name. Why does everything have to be an acronym anyhow??

Simply call it "Express."

Because then you can't have cool trivia contests with acronyms no one knows

Peripheral controller interconnect
complementary metal oxide semiconductor
Static random access memory
Advanced technology attachment packet interface
integrated drive electronics

...ok, time to quit, i'm having too much fun

[doctorcod]

Originally posted by SupaMan
Because then you can't have cool trivia contests with acronyms no one knows

Peripheral controller interconnect
complementary metal oxide semiconductor
Static random access memory
Advanced technology attachment packet interface
integrated drive electronics

...ok, time to quit, i'm having too much fun

hahaha

[saaya]

Originally posted by Veritas.no
Yeah. Cool on the outside. Inward at ATI it's totalt panic

yeah right nvidia doesnt even a have single sample of the card, only pre production stuff and a nice gpu design in THEORY! nv30 was a great card on the blue prints as well but it turned out to be a big flop....

[retrospooty]

Yup... I remember the NV30 was supposed to rule the world... Six months delayed, and it totally stank... I don't beleive anything Nvidia says.

Wait for benchies. Thats it, and thats all

[WerewolfX]

I agree I will personally wait for the benchmarks. Of real games not 3dmark. You cannot play 3dmark only run it

I am particulary interested in the X2 scores as i am a flight sim junky and would love to run that game at max resolution with 6xAA and 16xAnio. Wich i believe no one can run that game at and keep their sanity.

[Fever]

I haven't been impressed with NVidia at all for a long while, and I doubt the NV40 is going to change that. We'll see, though.. Maybe they can catch up with ATi in image quality, who knows.

[Musiaka]

So..I hope that nVidia will return to itself the confidence, which was shaken after NV30. I hope also that my following upgrade will become precisely NV40. I always fed pleasant weakness for nVidia, however an even larger weakness I feed to 3DMark score and therefore I will wait for the benchmark's results.

[wimpie007]

I'm happy with the R350 I have now...
It's real hard to predict what scores it will get...
I scored around 20.5k with mine, might get around 22k...
I really doubt the stock score will be anywhere higher than 25k, if already in that area...
Unless they start 16x2 or so something, it will just be faster, but not a whole world of difference...

[Soulburner]

NV40 is only going to be good in 3D01 if they release another driver that will run it well.

Otherwise, if we can't force 44.03, it will be significantly behind the Radeon in 3D01 (which, with the rediculous scores we are getting should be phased out soon).

[interman]

Originally posted by WerewolfX
I agree I will personally wait for the benchmarks. Of real games not 3dmark. You cannot play 3dmark only run it

I am particulary interested in the X2 scores as i am a flight sim junky and would love to run that game at max resolution with 6xAA and 16xAnio. Wich i believe no one can run that game at and keep their sanity.

maybe you should drop by opp or macci's labs

[IvanAndreevich]

So how are they going to cool NV40?

[SupaMan]

Originally posted by IvanAndreevich
So how are they going to cool NV40?

[interman]

harhar

[IvanAndreevich]

SupaMan
..taking up ALL the PCI slots?

[ultron5]

Originally posted by QuadDamage
you mean when they introduced TNT2 which destroyed Voodoo3.

OT: The V3 3500 destroyed the TNT2U in FPS in nearly every game. Its 16Bit quality was unattainable too.
/OT

[Kalway]

Originally posted by QuadDamage
you mean when they introduced TNT2 which destroyed Voodoo3.

What are you smoking? I want some. V3 still surpassed TNT2. It wasn't until Geforce that nvidia finally really took the crown.

[Geforce4ti4200]

the tnt2 was a better card in anything but glide, the one thing that made 3dfx so famous. tnt2 could run 32 bit color and use larger textures. voodoo3 didnt even properly support Ogl

[`schr0et]

Originally posted by SupaMan

ROFL

[hollywood]

Man...I still remember when I had the most killer graphics setup EVER. A Diamond Viper V770 AGP TNT2 with twin Voodoo Monster II cards hooked together in SLI mode. 3 vidcards in one machine.

[Total Immortal]

why can't they make cards so that you can hook them up like that any more?
... 3*Radeon 9800XT

[hollywood]

Originally posted by Total Immortal
why can't they make cards so that you can hook them up like that any more?
... 3*Radeon 9800XT

With PCI-EXPRESS (happy now Wildcard??? ) It will be possible again. Honestly, I would love the idea of being able to hook up graphics cards in parallel. Of course...that would make the benching game a freaking nightmare and freakishly expensive. Benching rigs with all 6 PCI-EXPRESS slots filled with R450s all hooked together would just stomp all of us "poorer" folk.

Mmmm...kinda gets me all tingly just thinking about it though!!!

[saaya]

radeons can be hooked up there are 4 way radeon 9700pro cards, but they have a custom interface...

in theory you can hook up 256 r300/350/360 gpus

[Slickthellama]

i could have sworn some company tried a dual core R300 but it refused to post.

[Geforce4ti4200]

does this mean I could buy six cheap pci-e cards and run em all in parrallel?