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AMD might be enjoying the current position of its Radeon HD 5800 as the world’s only DirectX 11 supporting graphics card series, but it seems that NVIDIA is gearing up to release its GeForce GT300, the first NVIDIA graphics card to support DirextX 11, on 27th Nov. Even if schedules are delayed, it would probably be pushed back to December, which certain isn’t the end of the world. The graphics card battle certainly looks like it’s going to heat up again.

http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2009/09/nvidia_geforce_gt300_coming_this_year.html



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Wonder how it'll compare to the 5870.

And moreover, I wonder how it'll compare to the 5870X2 AMD's putting out around the same time.



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I wonder how fast it'll be compared to the 5870.

I refuse to buy anything from Nvidia. I'll get the 5870 X2, under the condition that some PC games start utilizing the hardware power.



Nvidia is really being totally crushed by ATI right now. They're feeling the pressure.



shio said:
Nvidia is really being totally crushed by ATI right now. They're feeling the pressure.

Sweeeeet words.



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No, it isn't coming this year. Nvidia hasn't shown any dies [AMD did this for Evergreen 4 months prior to its release], has been talking down DX11 (when they did that with DX10.1 it was a year before any NV DX10.1 parts appeared) and no information has been leaked on it except by known false sources (who gave incorrect Cypress specs).

The only reporting I've seen on this is that i) Nvidia's internal roadmap shows it coming next year, ii) it taped out early August and yields are sub-10% so they couldn't possibly launch it and iii) if they were launching it then why would they launch 40nm GT200 parts in 3 weeks? It will take 3 months to respin GT300 so the yields are up, and then another 2 months to get boards running and production volume up. That puts it in February, that's my best guess.

The source for i) and ii) correctly leaked Cypress's shader count (1600) and Cypress's performance being around that of a GTX295. His leaks on GT300 are that it has a die size of ~530mm^2, an NVIO chip and four variants for different market segments.

Even then, unless they revolutionise GT200's IPC then given the 40nm scaling and the die size they would have a chip marginally faster than the GTX295 and 5870. But it would be so large (no one's ever attempted a card with that much silicon area, even the GTX295 lost tons of money when it first launched) that it couldn't have an X2 version so would lose to the 5870 X2.



Feeling the pressure, aren't they?



Not happening!

Though I wouldn't mind if it did, as I have a new system build coming up.



Crazymann said:
Not happening!

Though I wouldn't mind if it did, as I have a new system build coming up.

What is it? Lynnfield/Deneb? HD58xx?



Hopefully Nvidia gets their DX11 cards out sooner rather than later, at any rate, that will no doubt cause AMD's prices to drop a bit, which is when I'll pick one up probably.



Wii/PC/DS Lite/PSP-2000 owner, shameless Nintendo and AMD fanboy.

My comp, as shown to the right (click for fullsize pic)

CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T @ 3.2 GHz
Video Card: XFX 1 GB Radeon HD 5870
Memory: 8 GB A-Data DDR3-1600
Motherboard: ASUS M4A89GTD Pro/USB3
Primary Storage: OCZ Vertex 120 GB
Case: Cooler Master HAF-932
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64
Extra Storage: WD Caviar Black 640 GB,
WD Caviar Black 750 GB, WD Caviar Black 1 TB
Display: Triple ASUS 25.5" 1920x1200 monitors
Sound: HT Omega Striker 7.1 sound card,
Logitech X-540 5.1 speakers
Input: Logitech G5 mouse,
Microsoft Comfort Curve 2000 keyboard
Wii Friend Code: 2772 8804 2626 5138 Steam: jefforange89