guys check this link out.

http://theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39829

now we wait for this card until christmas

If that is accurate I'd be curious to see what they are releasing to hit that kind of performance. I would have expected Nvidia's next release to be more of an evolution maybe on 65nm.

what do you guys think ATi will bring up against this. i think R700. I don't think R650 will be able to even come close

bigger question is, how much will that cost!?

i would say same as much as highend card. 575$ to 650$

If a card 3x as powerful as my current 8800 GTX is going to be released in december, then it would be enough to convince me against just SLI'ing my card with another GTX in order to get the performance I want . Hope they do it. Although I suspect theres a healthy dose of hype and marketing there.

Looks like it that i got another 6 months more waiting to do. Not going to buy any overpriced 8800 series products considering they're half-a-year-old and will be obsolete in a year. And the fact that R600 failed to live up to its expectations. Well, my current X800 XT will be around to serve me for a little bit longer...

I suspect multiple cores.

This would seem like the only reasonable way to go from 330GFlops to 1000GFlops. I can't see them making the processor 3x faster. I could envision 50% faster and then doubling the cores.

The author of the article has little vision.
Off-loaded physics and super real graphics.

In many cases you need to put the horse before the cart.
If there is not any hardware that can play a game, nobody will buy it waiting for the hardware.

People will, however, buy the fastest hardware even if its faster than they need.

I think he is missing the point that this will be a boutique type item.
People with the cash will kill to have this card and NVIDIA will turn a nice profit on this high ticket item.

How dumb is Nvidia's PR? I would have waited till crysis, around august, help sold alot of the 8800 GPU's before releasing this info.

I want to see the ATI FanBoys's faces when this monster releases!
Time for a

I agree. next-gen top GPUs are around 50% faster than the previous one. They don't even come near doubling the performance. Saying that G92 is gonna be x3 faster than G80 sounds like crap PR for kids to me.

Unless.....they are going with something REALLY new, that means, multicore GPUs. Its the only way I could even start to believe that statement. There has been rumors about multicore GPUs in relation to R700. So that can actually be the reason why.

Lets wait and see. Right now my 8800 GTS 320MB OC is running at 1680x1050 just fine with Vista.

Dont forget a hefty amount of transistors going to 65nm. Also I suspect therell be 1 gig of really fast ram on it, maybe clocked to 2.8. So with a faster clock you could do it without going multi core

this is the same as when the 6 series came out followed by the 7 series, ati barely overcame the 6800, and finally when it did the 7 series came around.

ATi and AMD need another break like the FX and Prescott era (error)

i wonder, could they make a 3 slot cooler? and two of these babys in SLI would exceed the 1 teraflop by far

I hope this does in fact happen, though I highly doubt it will.


And what's with the last paragraph in the article? Is the Inq. unaware that games tend to get more demanding as time goes on?