I know it's early - Nvidia starting to produce G71 Chips(7900)

[liqnit]

Nvidia started sending the chip factory design of thier next 7900 chip.
which mean soon there will be a another big battle Nvidia vs ATI

G71, Geforce 7900 GTX taped out

[zachig]

Here's the link:

http://theinquirer.net/?article=29314

[werty316]

Sweet I am staying on nVidia's side. I really never like ATI because I never like their drivers.

[kagato]

I just keep hoping they'll hurry up and get those h.264 capable drivers released.

[Null]

I want one.

No, I want two.

Well, actually I want four.

512MB's each.

I want 2GB's of pure gpu exstacy.

I am maturing.

There was a day when 1MB seemed like such a lofty goal.

My memory is fading, yet growing at the same time.

Perplexing, isn't it?

[PUTALE]

I wonder would this new card packed with all and features that ATI has in their new 1900 cards and more. ATI really has packed a lot of features in their latest card. PErformance-wise, I think they are about even with ATI slightly ahead but now if nvidia can packed with features and performance, it will once again, be in the leader and regain the crown. I really would hope that nvidia will also work on their video rendering and multimedia more, than just pure performance. ATI seems to have that part much far ahead of nvidia.

[Bio-Hazard]

I'll have to find the link, but I saw some leaked bench marks with the 7900 single card coming in slightly slower than ATI X1900 running in CrossFire. If that holds true, nVidia will have a killer on their hands.

[Bio-Hazard]

Here's the bench marks I was talking about:

ATi RADEON X1900 XT 512MB CrossFire (625MHz VPU / 1450MHz GDDR-3) (not XTX) (AMD A64 FX-57 2.8GHz)
13,501 3DMarks for $1098 (£622.01)

NVIDIA GeForce 7900 512MB (700MHz GPU / 1800MHz GDDR-3 (not GDDR-3+) (AMD A64 FX-60 2.8GHz)
~13,000 3DMarks (?)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 512MB SLi (550MHz GPU / 1200MHz GDDR-3) (AMD A64 FX-57 2.8GHz)
12,200 3DMarks for $1,439.61 (£815.58)

ATi RADEON X1800 XT 512MB CrossFire (625MHz VPU / 1500MHz GDDR-3) (MESH Computers TITAN X1800 FIRE - AMD A64 X2 4600+ 2.4GHz)
12,050 3DMarks for $1071.16 (£606.78)

ATi RADEON X1900 XTX 512MB (650MHz VPU / 1550MHz GDDR-3) (AMD A64 FX-57 2.8GHz)
11,149 3DMarks for $649 (£367.67)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 512MB (580MHz VPU / 1703MHz GDDR-3) (ARMARI Pantheon-FX - AMD A64 FX-60 2.8GHz)
10,062 3DMarks

ATi RADEON X1900 XT 512MB (625MHz VPU / 1450MHz GDDR-3) (AMD A64 FX-57 2.8GHz)
~10,000 3DMarks for $549 (£311.04)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 512MB (550MHz GPU / 1700MHz GDDR-3) (AMD A64 FX-57 2.8GHz)
9,608 3DMarks for $719.81 (£407.79)

ATi RADEON X1800 XT 512MB (625MHz VPU / 1500MHz GDDR-3) (AMD A64 FX-57 2.8GHz)
9,271 3DMarks for $535.56 (£303.39)

ATi RADEON X1800 XT 512MB (625MHz VPU / 1500MHz GDDR-3) (MESH Computers TITAN X1800 FIRE - AMD A64 X2 4600+ 2.4GHz)
8,544 3DMarks

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=4346

[Fantasma]

I prefer seeing the benchmark results when the card is out, think about the x1800 performance, it wasn´t that high at the end, it was fast, but not as fast as we believed.

Sweet I am staying on nVidia's side. I really never like ATI because I never like their drivers.

The only thing that is wrong with the ATI drivers is the catalyst control center, it´s very slow. The drivers itself are good enough, or at least for me :wink:

[PUTALE]

now that ati's benchmark for the 1900 is out there. i am sure Nvidia will tweak their cards so when it's released, it will outperform ATI's 1900.

[Bio-Hazard]

I'm sure we'll be seeing the benchmarks soon enough as I'm sure a few top sites already have ref cards waiting for the nda to expire....... :shock: I wouldn't be surprized if Bjorn already had one............ :D

[Null]

Release the hounds. Let the hunt begin.

The race is on to find the fastest grfx solution possible.

And as all those dreamy eyed gpu junkies start the engines in their cars, we will see gas prices rise once again.

Fill 'er up, boys!