View Full Version : Nvidia NV 80 (DX10) specs
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34495
Some weird specs such as 768mb of memory rather than 512 or 1gb.
But at least its DDR4 :clap:
Fast GPU @ 1.5ghz, should run current games blazingly fast and even cope with future stuff like Crisis.
Very nice card. But how long till the 8800GTX jumps to 8900GTX ?:grin:
Singh400
20-09-2006, 8:37 AM
Bring it on! :w00t:
Tigerblade
20-09-2006, 9:01 AM
From what I've read it isn't fully DX10 compliant/isn't a true DX10 card. Last time NV pulled that kind of stunt they released the FX range :thumbsdow
Lets hope they don't screw up as bad again.
The NV card will supposedly be out alot sooner then r600 but r600 is a true DX10 card.
Will be an interesting few months that's for sure.
Obviously all rumours at present tho. Reading thru that tho and it sounds like a real beast, which leads to the next rumour that these round of cards will need a seperate psu to power them, or a brick. Don't know about you guys but IMO that's bad news, my pc drinks enough juice as it is!
I would rather have a brick with the card than have to buy yet another PSU for the PC. Its too much trouble to unplug everything and take out the PSU.
Another point is that the card will need to ship with that power brick, or at least a cable that plugs into the mains.
It would certainly lighten the load on the PSU/PC side of things leaving more power for over clocking of the CPU and such. I wonder if unlimited power through the mains would allow for better over clocking of the GPU?
WelshBluebird
20-09-2006, 3:26 PM
From what I've read it isn't fully DX10 compliant/isn't a true DX10 card. Last time NV pulled that kind of stunt they released the FX range :thumbsdow
I thought the thing about DX10 was that to be officially called a DX10 card, the cards have to support everything in the DX10 spec. So a card is either DX10 (and so supports all the DX10 specs) or it is not (even if it doesn't support just one little part of the spec).
Tigerblade
20-09-2006, 5:30 PM
You'd have thought so but the FX range were 'DX9' cards but struggled with DX9 coded games......big time. So much so they were best being run in DX8.1. The 9700/9500Pro were fully DX9 compliant and stomped big time on them.
In fact I saw some benchmarks at the time showing a 9600pro beating the 5900Ultra in HL2 using the DX9 path, the same 5900Ultra that was supposed to be a direct competitor to the 9800Pro, not the lesser powered 9600Pro. The 5950Ultra restored some balance but this is by the by.
My point being they have fubared before and from what I've read I hope they aren't making the same mistake. I guess nothing can be said for sure until cold hard facts are released form NV themselves tho.
apolloa
20-09-2006, 8:25 PM
WOOHOO at LAST, but I wouldn't touch a DX10 card with a mile long barge pole before next year, when they will be out in force and working properly hopefully. Vista isn't out till then anyway, XP won't support DX10 properly like Vista will, apparently.
You'd have thought so but the FX range were 'DX9' cards but struggled with DX9 coded games......big time. So much so they were best being run in DX8.1. The 9700/9500Pro were fully DX9 compliant and stomped big time on them.
In fact I saw some benchmarks at the time showing a 9600pro beating the 5900Ultra in HL2 using the DX9 path, the same 5900Ultra that was supposed to be a direct competitor to the 9800Pro, not the lesser powered 9600Pro. The 5950Ultra restored some balance but this is by the by.
My point being they have fubared before and from what I've read I hope they aren't making the same mistake. I guess nothing can be said for sure until cold hard facts are released form NV themselves tho.
I remember that debacle and I got (and still have) a 9700 pro!
But surely Nvidia have learned from their mistakes and wont be stupid again? ;)
booyaka
22-09-2006, 8:28 AM
tis getting bonkers now!!
The power that that will need will be mad!!!
At the quoted speeds 768/1500 you will need a super fast conroe to keep up with the card otherwise it will bottle neck the card.
Starting to see 1000W psu hitting the market and these might be needed to run cards at that speed.
Tigerblade
22-09-2006, 1:17 PM
Starting to see 1000W psu hitting the market and these might be needed to run cards at that speed.
That'll be the expensive way of doing it. With one (or two!) of these cards it is heavily rumoured you get a power brick with it, so the cards will plug directly into the wall not touching the main PC's psu. In that respect gone are the days of massive power supping psu's, so we will be able to slip back down to reasonable wattage, but the gfx cards will be supping away straight from the wall!
It is getting crazy, but the more I think about it, the more I like the idea of the power brick as the gfx cards have gotta be the biggest drain on a psu and with their own power source *shouldn't* cause instabilitys to the rest of the system. It does bring a whole set of new questions tho. Like what happens if the power cable comes out of the gfx card whilst the pc is running? Freeze/crash most likely but that ain't gonna be good.....
I would say that the safest thing to do is have the cards and the PC/Monitor conected to the same extension cable. That way if one goes they all go. Keeps it unfied :grin:
As for cables poping out, well they could make some lock type mechanism so the cable needs to be locked in like a DVI cable.
Singh400
23-09-2006, 10:56 AM
Where have you lot heard about the power bricks for this thing? Never heard of them myself.
Bilbob
23-09-2006, 11:44 AM
Tis indeed getting silly... as fast as CPU's are getting faster AND cooler and using less power, GPU's are using the lazy method of getting performance...
I for one don't want all that horse power... give me a quiet, fast cool chip anyday...
WelshBluebird
23-09-2006, 12:16 PM
Where have you lot heard about the power bricks for this thing? Never heard of them myself.
It comes from a rumour and anandtech claiming the DX10 cards may use up to 300W of power. However, as far as I know, this has not been proved, or any evidence even given.
Singh400
23-09-2006, 12:50 PM
It comes from a rumour and anandtech claiming the DX10 cards may use up to 300W of power. However, as far as I know, this has not been proved, or any evidence even given.
Exactly, rumours. Far as I know, they will use the same method as previous GFX cards.
Tigerblade
25-09-2006, 7:40 AM
Where have you lot heard about the power bricks for this thing? Never heard of them myself.
Re-read my post and you will see that I've already said 'heavily rumoured'....
It's doing the rounds on hardware forums and is causing quite a heavy split of ppl for and against.