Oh no.....Geforce FX is coming!

[GT98]

Yep Boys and Girls is offical the NV30 is called the Geforce FX..anyone else think the name is getting a bit old hat?

Graphics chipmaker Nvidia Corp. (NVDA) plans to unveil its latest line of chips on Monday. Nvidia says its new GeForce FX chips will bring to home video games the same level of animation in today's Hollywood movies. The company's earlier chips were part of the technology used to make "Shrek" and "Monsters Inc." "We've been trying to bring 3-D graphics to the mass market," said Mike Hara, Nvidia vice president of investor relations. "We're moving at a rapid rate toward enabling people to do on a PC what people are able to do in cinema today."

off www.Shacknews.com

Oh and it doesnt hit the market till February....I smell a DDR2 R9700 soon....comeon M get that Pituo out!

[GT98]

Some Specs...for now till the offical PR

0.13 micron

400+Mhz Core

125 millions of transistors

AGP 8X

DDR II memory running at 500MHz or 1GHz effective (fastest memory used so far)

8 pipelines and 2 TMUs (one more than ATI)

Render 16 textures per pass 200 million triangles per second (most efficient architecture)

1GHz data rate plus Lightspeed Memory Architecture 3 reach an amazing 48 GB/s (double what the Radeon 9700 PRO can do with its DDR 256 bit memory)

128 bit memory this time and 256 bit DDR II for future designs

FSAA 8X now and anisotropic filtering will go up to 128 tap anisotropic filtering

Higher precision 64 and 128 bit colour which is "film-quality color precision

CineFX engine for cinematic rendering

Support for DirectX 9 and even beyond

20000 to 22000 3dmarks 2001 SE on the fastest processors and 2.5 times faster in quake 3 than TI 4600, 3.5 times faster in Doom 3, and three times faster than 3dmark 2001 SE

About 30 per cent faster than Radeon 9700 PRO in FSAA, Anisotropic filtering is set for maximum settings

[thop]

looks like a winner to me if the price is alright and the image quality decent (and all what you posted true). yeah i know this is probably not going to happen but i'll give them a chance.

[Jammrock]

And the video quality will still suck arse!

Jammrock

[Technoid]

And 2D will be fuzzy

[Guru]

20000 to 22000 3dmarks 2001 SE on the fastest processors... and three times faster than 3dmark 2001 SE

I get 12000+ on a P4a 1.8GHz @ 2.4GHz with a 64MB Ti 4200 so I guess that it should get ~ 45000 nVidiot marks on a 3GHz+ cpu!

Oh and to Technoid and Jammrock the 2d is actualy quite good on my Gainward Golden Sample in 1600x1200x32 @ 100Hz!

[Marshmallowman]

golden sample...isn't that what you give to your doctor...

[Fyrespray]

http://images.ukgamer.com/previews/fx/front2_large.jpg

and look at the size of the heat extraction thingy, i don't know......

[BuddMan]

Heh, any card that has its own slot cooler is gonna have problems...

[Fyrespray]

Wait till they give it its own power supply

Oh wait a min thats been done before hasn't it, 3DFX anyone ..........

[Wombat]

Yeah. At first I thought it was silly, but I've warmed up to the idea. After seeing plenty of oddities caused by power problems, and even resonance from the CPU causing the the PS to shut down, guaranteeing your own clean power signal certainly seems to offer a solution.

[Ali]

Originally posted by GT98
Some Specs...for now till the offical PR



8 pipelines and 2 TMUs (one more than ATI)

Almost right, pity it only has 1 TMU per pipe though. I thought that was a given (the 2 TMUs I mean).

Ali

[Novdid]

I don't expect many chips in the future to have more than 1TMU/pipe.

[Kurt]

Originally posted by Fyrespray
Wait till they give it its own power supply

Oh wait a min thats been done before hasn't it, 3DFX anyone ..........

...and they're doing it again...

[UtwigMU]

Have you seen the fairy somewhere before?