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The GeForce GTX 295 is coming, but with a bit less bang than NVIDIA had probably hoped for. It has a performance advantage in FarCry 2 but loses that performance advantage in Fallout 3, a game we know a lot of people are playing this holiday season. Albeit the GTX 295 does not suffer some of the graphical bugs that plague the 4870 X2 in Fallout 3 that give the true gaming advantage to the GTX 295. While it may not have won the performance crown in every game here today, it did manage to match the Radeon HD 4870 X2 for the highest playable in-game settings in each game we tested. NVIDIA has definitely made this a worthy competitor to the Radeon HD 4870 X2. But in n…
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Nvidia signs Intel bus licence deal "Nvidia has finally won a frontside bus licence from Intel, paving the way at long last for the graphics chip specialist to release versions of its nForce chipset family for Pentium 4 processors. Intel's permission comes on the back of a "broad, multi-year patent cross-license agreement spanning multiple product lines and product generations", the two companies announced today."
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NVIDIA Vista Drivers Update: Future Plans Unveiled "NVIDIA told me that they planning to start releasing a new version of their Forceware driver for Vista at least once every month. I say at least because Diercks said that if they find several game fixes or bugs that are substantial they may have intermittent releases as well to help appease the gaming masses. This move is very similar to the driver development cycle that ATI’s Catalyst drivers have been in for a couple of years now, with updates about once a month. Having this type of regular schedule should help NVIDIA users feel more at ease about their purchases knowing that a fixed time length is ahead of them…
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Nvidia unveiling next-gen GPU June 21 Nvidia has revealed that it will announce its next-generation graphics processing unit on June 21 at a launch event in San Francisco. An invitation sent to Nvidia partners, analysts, and members of the press promises invitees an "evening of full-throttle entertainment" filled with "revolutionary technologies, hot 3D content, and exciting gaming action as we unveil our next-generation GPU."
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Nvidia to pitch NV48 at ATI's R520 "Nvidia will launch against ATI's next-generation high-end graphics chip, the R520, in Q2 2005. So claim sources from among Taiwan's graphics card manufacturer community, cited by DigiTimes. They also allege that the part, codenamed NV48, will be fabbed by TSMC at 110nm, and not by IBM. The sources claim the move is a result of yields the Taiwanese foundry has achieved with the GeForce 6200 and 6600 chips. The shift from one manufacturing partner to another may account for the rumours that Nvidia had cancelled NV48. Certainly, the NV48 had been expected to appear late this year, according to Nvidia roadmaps doing the roun…
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Asus exposes Nvidia physics card product Announcing a new mobo equipped with three PCI Express x16 slots, the Taiwanese firm said the third connector was specifically for "Nvidia's upcoming Physics card" ASUS P5N32-SLI Premium/WiFi-AP Motherboard Enables Superior Gaming Realism with Quad-SLI, Intel Core2 Extreme and Physics Card Support Hmmmm, see page 28
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Havok FX "NVIDIA and Havok will be demonstrating a physics effects solution that runs completely on a graphics processing unit (GPU)" Havok FX, GPUs can simulate the interactions of thousands of colliding rigid bodies, a fundamental technique of physics computation seen in today's latest games. It's now possible to compute the components of friction, collisions, gravity, mass, and velocity that form the basis of rigid body physics.
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"Nvidia is long known to use garbage VRMs on their reference boards.... those generally don't burn out without some extreme overclocking involved to hasten their demise...... However now they've even been called out for using far underrated inductors for the VRAM voltage on their high end cards..... and unfortunately these are starting to fail under normal use in high end cards a generation or two old." GeForceGTX 780, 780Ti, Titan, Titan Black Edition, 980 4GB, 980Ti 6GB Nvidia reference PCBs burning out
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2338922,00.asp "Graphics maker Nvidia Corp. said fourth-quarter revenue will decline by up to 50 percent sequentially, due to weakness in end-user demand." Typical nVidia, blame your end-users and not the fact that your products have not kept up for the last year or the fact that you promised Intel to develop drivers for the x38 and x48 chipsets, then gave them the FU right at the last minute. The x38, x48 and x58 can do both ATi Crossfire and nVidia SLi (that was the promise) but nVidia flat out refuses to develop drivers. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090...venue-drop.html Recall that Ion is NVIDIA's name…
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NVIDIA's SLI Shortchanges Gamers? "According to NVIDIA’s marketing, NVIDIA’s Scalable Link Interface (SLI) "can deliver as much as 2x the performance of a single GPU configuration for unparalleled gaming experiences." What NVIDIA fails to make clear, however, is that SLI currently requires NVIDIA to write driver profiles for each game to support SLI. Are all the games you want to play supported?"
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Nvidia to voucher up Doom 3 "Well it seems that NV40 + Doom 3 will be up against R420 + Half Life 2 voucher. Nasty fight."
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http://www.pcgamer.c...anely-powerful/ One of those 680's is equal to 3 580's......That is ridiculous.
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Nvidia cynically fiddled video benchmarks "THERE HAS BEEN quite a bit of talk lately about Nvidia fiddling with certain video tests, but that is only the tip of the iceberg. The problem is merely hinted at an understanding of the way it manipulated benchmarks, the real damage is revealed in how it did so - through sleazy underhanded playing of the media. The problem is simple, Nvidia can't do video decode well, and the current media darling benchmark, HQV - especially in the HD version of the benchmark - is eating its hardware alive. On quality, Nvidia regularly loses about 25 per cent of its score in a noise reduction test - enough, to more or less take it out of…
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So, which is the better chipset? nVidia: - frequent stable driver updates (except lately) - console experience (X-Box) - come on, its the Empire!!! ATI: - frequent but historically poor drivers (except lately) - console experience (Game Cube) - the underdog
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Nvidia 'nForce 4' details leak "So too will the so-called SLI release, which presumably provides either two PCI Express x16 buses for two SLI-enabled graphics cards, or allows the integrated graphics engine to co-operate with an external card, again utilising Nvidia's SLI technology."
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