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    NVIDIA's Big Bang II comes in September

    Just got this "Spy" shot from NVIDIA 2008 Driver Roadmap, i'm not sure about everythign as i can read what you read, but let me tell you that Big Bang I was the introduction of SLI (so i guess this will be big).




    From what i can read/ understand

    Display Connectivity
    Quality Improvements
    Performance Improvements
    OpenGL 3.0

    Source: CHW.net

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    introduction of SLI eh? I think I'm missing something
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    What i meant is that Big Bang I was SLI and now there is Big Bang II on the roadmap, since SLI pretty much changed the VGA market my guess is that this will be big

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    Neat.

    I'm going to guess some sort of multi gpu mashup.

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    Hopefully it lives up to the hype this time and isn't another can of whoopass

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    Line 2 looks like 'Hybrid . . . .'
    Line 3 looks like 'Spring Notebook Cycle'

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    Maybe SLI 2 will give you a 30% bump in performance vs. 25% making spending $300 a little more worth while. That would be nice to see if it did a bit more though.
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    Big Bang II - Putting two cores on one die with dedicated GPU interconnect. Yaaaaa ... y!

    Yawning after their 'whoop ass'.

    Quote Originally Posted by Glow9 View Post
    Maybe SLI 2 will give you a 30% bump in performance vs. 25% making spending $300 a little more worth while. That would be nice to see
    I think I detect sarcasm in here, but your second sentence is totally throwing me off.
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    Under "Spring Notebook Cycle" I think it says GT200+ something

    Also, I don't know if just a card would be "Big Bang II" - if it was a multi-GPU card, it would have to be something revolutionary to get that title unless they want to underwhelm us all

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    Quote Originally Posted by twilyth View Post
    Line 2 looks like 'Hybrid . . . .'
    Line 3 looks like 'Spring Notebook Cycle'
    GT200+ sth
    Big Bang II
    - Now/WWW sth
    - SLI connectivity sth
    - Display connectivity
    - Quality improvements
    - Performance improvements
    - OpenGL 3.0

    sth like that anyway..
    Oh blah?

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    Interesting

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    BiG BanG II is launch of G200 (55nm) graphics card to mainstream (against HD4850/4870), and new flagship ... against HD4870X2 ...

    and PhysX for every GeForce with G80/92/200
    Last edited by OBR; 07-23-2008 at 11:06 PM.

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    Thats suppose to be GTX 280...
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    Quote Originally Posted by OBR View Post
    BiG BanG II is launch of G200 (55nm) graphics card to mainstream (against HD4850/4870), and new flagship ... against HD4870X2 ...
    How do you know that? Or just speculate?
    Last edited by Barys; 07-23-2008 at 09:55 PM.

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    It's all good, until you realize the slide is about drivers. I mean, I understand the hardware highlights below...but any talk about software "being ready" scares me. End of September is a far way out yet...

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    Quote Originally Posted by cadaveca View Post
    . End of September is a far way out yet...
    2 months is far away?

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    When you have guys typing away at code, yeah...it is...because they could be in a mad crunch, and unable to deliver. Let's translate 2 month into man hours...say a nice 35 hour week...x8 weeks...280 hours...that could be a whole lot of great code, or a whole lot of wasted time. And that's just ONE person.

    Big Bang II or not, Big Bang I was all bark and no bite for the consumer, and higher profits for nV. Oh, I am so excited, I can hardly contain myself!
    Last edited by cadaveca; 07-23-2008 at 10:04 PM.

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    if its like big bang1 then hopefully it will go back to 2NV cards to copeat with 1 ati card

    but, its most likely the launch of commercial CUDA software
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    Quote Originally Posted by zanzabar View Post
    but, its most likely the launch of commercial CUDA software
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    If we keep the comparison to "Big Bang I", then this is probably something like dedicated physix GFX or some SLI like what is posible with 790G chipset, where you have "master" GFX and "slave" GFX (Integrated GPU), but makes it possible to run SLI.
    Big Bang II might be that this possibility is enabled with stand alone GFX of different kind, so that you no longer _must_ buy an identical GFX to the one you got, but you can just buy the newest generetion GFX, and make it run SLI together with your current (outdated) "top notch" GFX.

    Would be nice to live out the old hype: "I buy a SLI MoBo, and a single nVidia GFX, and thus I just upgrate with another GFX when it is no longer enough with this one GFX, and put them in SLI." But not needing to buy an outdated GFX, but just buying another GFX from nVidia, and thus being able to run SLI.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Steensen View Post
    If we keep the comparison to "Big Bang I", then this is probably something like dedicated physix GFX or some SLI like what is posible with 790G chipset, where you have "master" GFX and "slave" GFX (Integrated GPU), but makes it possible to run SLI.
    Big Bang II might be that this possibility is enabled with stand alone GFX of different kind, so that you no longer _must_ buy an identical GFX to the one you got, but you can just buy the newest generetion GFX, and make it run SLI together with your current (outdated) "top notch" GFX.

    Would be nice to live out the old hype: "I buy a SLI MoBo, and a single nVidia GFX, and thus I just upgrate with another GFX when it is no longer enough with this one GFX, and put them in SLI." But not needing to buy an outdated GFX, but just buying another GFX from nVidia, and thus being able to run SLI.
    That would be nice for us customers, but not likely. They would be killing their own profits, that is not likley with their current financial situation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LIKMARK View Post
    +1

    No, new graphics card and official WHQL PhysX drivers for every GeForce

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