Originally posted by: DidlySquat
Originally posted by: ZobarStyl
Originally posted by: keysplayr2003
We don't know if it has 16 extreme, 24, 32, 64 or 128 pipes. I can tell you that it will have at least 16. I couldn't even tell you if it's powered by a hamster in a squirrel cage at this point.
Yeah, R520 has to be the biggest mystery in GPU's in a while. The problem is, it's still too late to the table...it has to seriously blow the GTX out of the water in perf to get as many sales now. ATi doesn't seem to realize that it doesn't matter how damn fast the setup is if it's 6-12 months late, first with still-MIA Crossfire and now with 90nm R5xx. It looks more and more like their nV30, what with the talk of 'extreme' pipelines, sounds kind of like nV's experiment in multitexturing.
wow what complete nonsense. wondering what kind of people post here.
From the consumer perspective, it doesn't really matter if they are "late to the game". The only important thing is the performance. Suppose the new R520 is twice as fast as the 7800GTX and is priced similarly, what do you think most people would buy ?
Right now Nvidia has the high end PERFORMANCE advantage - SLI is unmatched, and in single cards 7800GTX kill the X850XT. But if ATI release a card that blows the 7800GTX out of the water (for the same price), I could care less that it was "late" - I would be buying the R520. In my opinion there is no loyalty factor in video cards purchases - I will just buy the best bang for the buck at the very high end segment, be it 7800GTX or R520. That is the reason I'm holding off on buying a 7800GTX, because I don't want to see in a few weeks the R520 released with performance 20% faster or more.
Same thing happend for 6800GT - it USED TO BE the best bang for the buck high end card, UNTIL the X800XL was released, which is slightly faster and costs less. No one that needs a video card now cares which video card was released first. All they look at is performance vs price from the currently available cards.
Only advantage of being first is because of the dual card (SLI) upgrade path where people buy one card first and later buy another card of the same type. So people who bought the 7800GTX are more likley to buy a second one as an upgrade option, rather then upgrading to the R520. But SLI is a marginal business. For most people it would be the R520 vs the 7800GTX. Since R520 release is imminent, it makes sense to wait and see the performance and then form an OBJECTIVE evaluation about the best card in that segment.
Only shareholders and fanboy trolls care which company did something first, so they can say my company is better then yours.....I believe this forum is about gamers which are prospective video card buyers, and not about arguing history of which company is/was/will-be better, This thread is about information on performance of the upcoming R520 card, relative to the current high end cards, including the 7800GTX. That is of the utmost importance to buyers of high end video cards (like me).