Geforece 6700/6800LE coming soon

[priyajeet]

<A HREF="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=18962" target="_new">http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=18962</A>

NV41 which might be called Geforce 6700 will be clocked to 400MHz/1GHz core/memory. Cards will use a 256 bit memory interface and will have either 128MB or 256MB. Cost from $200 to $300.

Also
<A HREF="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=18960" target="_new">http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=18960</A>

6800 <b>L</b>ooser's <b>E</b>dition is due soon.
It will be clocked to a 6800 std speed - 325MHz/700Mhz core/DDR1-memory. will have eight pipelines (6800 std has 12) and will have 128 MB of DDR1 memory.

Y dont people finish with one project, utilize it, and then start on another project. I beleive 6600 arent even in the market yet in bulk, and these dudes are trying to take another card out. Same goes for ATI. Looks like these 2 rivals have forgotten abt the public and are just taking new cards out to show the other down, this kind of competition is unhealthy.

:tongue: <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/priyajeet/Fing.jpg" target="_new"><i><font color=red>Very funny, Scotty.</font color=red><font color=blue> Now beam down my clothes.</font color=blue></i></A> :tongue: <P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by priyajeet on 10/08/04 10:21 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[eden]

It doesn't made one bit of sense, IMO.

There are TOO many cards.
What's the point of the 6600GT if there will be a 6800LE roughly its performance, currently costing 250 Euros? Isn't that around 250$ CDN, which would be about 180$ US?

What, now we have 10$ gap cards too?

This is very much unhealthy, I agree. It's damn confusing, hardware sites should filter the bunch out and get only the representative card of the range.

So either you have low, midrange or high, like the old days of the geForce 3 and 4, and of course mainstream.

You'd end up with geForce PCX serie, then the 6600GT, then the 6800GT and finally the Ultra. I'd say it's good enough to be mainstream->low end/budget high P/P ratio ->mid-range->high end enthusiast level.
Would work a hell of a lot better for reviews anyways. Can you imagine now almost 10 variations from each company for one serie? That would have us end up with about 30 freaking cards to bench each time if we wanted a comprehensive benchmark, almost a VGA chart like THG does once every many months (so that means if we reviewed often, this is where it becomes very annoying. THG VGA Charts aren't because you have a goal in mind, to really lay out what's out now and what's old and how they compare in modern games)

I mean, now we have the 6800LE, 6800, 6800GT, 6800Ultra, 6800 Ultra PE, and not to mention the elusive "6700" that's more or less a 6800. What else?

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[wrugoin]

I agree Eden, There are way too many cards, but ironically not enough either. I'm in the market for an AGP8X video card in the $200-250 range and I'm sitting here waiting and waiting for ATI and Nvidia to provide one with their new GPUs. I'd gladly consider a 6700 or 6600GT or whatever as long as it stayed in my price range and WAS AVAILABLE IN AGP!!!!

I'm sorry, but I'm figuring that only about 2-5% of the consumers in the market for new video cards has PCI-e 16x capable motherboards and IMO the rest of the 95% of us (AGP'ers not willing to pay $400+) are either forced to wait until Christmas for the table scraps or settle for the last generation of cards soon to be obsolete.

So I'll accept as many Geforce 6-series/Radeon X-series cards as they want to produce, as long as the STOP FORGETTING ABOUT THEIR AGP CUSTOMERS and supply us with some mid-range alternatives.

That's my Beef. Anyone Agree?

 

[eden]

AGP should continue to be more supported for now. They can't do this much of a quick transition. GrapeApe, do you see what's happening now?
It seems like the transition went so fast, the last AGP part for ATi seems like some low end crap!
It IS odd if you ask me. AGP 8X is probably not even fully tapped yet. And because AGP is an extra port on a mainboard and CAN be used without, as seen with OEM PCs using PCI or integrated video card boards, I have a fear this time around, AGP can be completely disposed of and we will have PCI-E everywhere, thus PCI can continue, AGP won't. At least, that's what I think, though I may be wrong. I just feel AGP may go more easily than PCI for video cards, because of the flexible ability to still do AGP-less boards, compared to PCI.

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[Spitfire_x86]

I don't understand why ATI/NVIDIA is making everything PCI Express when very few people have mobo with PCI express slot. Making GeForce 6200 a PCI-Ex only product was a stupid decesion. Nodoby who's looking for a value card to upgrade his PC will have PCI-Ex mobo. It's fine to make some PCI-Ex product for Dell and other OEMs, but why a PCI-Ex only product lineup?


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[lik]

The thing the most makes me mad is the fact that the other countries besides US are forgotten. I'm still waiting for the good brnad X800 and 6800 to arrive in quantity. And the prices here in Portugal are high enough to make people buy always worts cards than they need or want...

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