G80 Leaked pictures

[Paratus]

Quick someone photochop this into a hair dryer.

 

[Griswold]

Originally posted by: ShadowOfMyself

Originally posted by: RichUK

Originally posted by: gersson
Holy Shiz! That thing is huge! 2x Power Plugs :shocked:
I will definitely need a huge PSU -- not even 600w is enough

Then .... there's SLI :shocked:

Nuclear power plant FTW

Gee, be a little more realistic please. It will obviously come with a external plutonium battery pack. The type they use on deep space probes.

 

[jiffylube1024]

Originally posted by: Griswold
Gee, be a little more realistic please. It will obviously come with a external plutonium battery pack. The type they use on deep space probes.

Makes sense - I was thinking of mice on a treadmill, but I don't think it would be as reliable...

 

[Paratus]

Originally posted by: Griswold

Originally posted by: ShadowOfMyself

Originally posted by: RichUK

Originally posted by: gersson
Holy Shiz! That thing is huge! 2x Power Plugs :shocked:
I will definitely need a huge PSU -- not even 600w is enough

Then .... there's SLI :shocked:

Nuclear power plant FTW

Gee, be a little more realistic please. It will obviously come with a external plutonium battery pack. The type they use on deep space probes.

Actually those only produce ~ 500W so they'd be very under powered.

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: JAG87
just like I said in another thread:
one 750 mhz core for DX9 and one 750mhz core for DX10 = 1.5 ghz rumour.

When one core works, the other one does not sit idling. It can be used for physics, or even simple rendering calculations. So from here I guess again:

256 bit + 512 MB to the rendering core, 128 bit + 256MB to the spare core = 384 bit bus and 768MB memory.


I think I am on to something here

You will not see a seperate core for DX9 and DX10.

That is absolutely retarded. By definition DX10 hardware can run DX9.

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: Matt2
Another question to think about is if it is two chips, does the 768M transistor count imply that both chips have a total of 768m transistors, or does each chip have 768M tranistors on its own?

2x768M transistor chips = expensive

If its 90 or 80nm, itll be 2 ~380m chips.

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: Cookie Monster

Originally posted by: josh6079

Originally posted by: Matt2
All I know is that I'm already saving for this beast. it had better not disappoint.

Eh, it will always disappoint some. Pretty soon after its release I wouldn't be surprised if we see akshayt with a "The 8800GTX is Crap: It really is" thread or Think with a "The 8800GTX is flawed" thread as well.

Anyways, one thing is for sure. The projected November release looks like it will definately happen. And since, for the time being, ATI and Nvidia are still close competitors that means R600 should follow shortly.

Time is one our side right now. Good cards keep dropping in price, games get patched (except for BF2 which always needs a patch) and drop in price as well. Nvidia and ATI have got to start selling these products that they've put so much R&D in to counter their cost. Besides, Christmas is coming...

QFT. nVIDIA asked for retailers to get rid of the 7900GTX/7950GX2 inventory. This means a very big chop is $$$. Good for us

R&D for G80 was something like 250 million dollars. I wonder if theres price gouging during the release, due to G80 having NO competition from ATi. Just like G70 against the X850XTPE.

Yeah, this is the legendary NV50 thats been in development since the Geforce 2 GTS went retail.

From an engineering standpoint this is an aggressive, wild, and expensive design.

If they can build cards that dont burn out in 6 months ill be thoroughly impressed. I really dont like 2 chips on one package for video cards.

That being said, im saving up for mine

 

[shabby]

Its hard to imagine they started work on this 6 years ago, does that mean ms was thinking of dx10 back then?
I do remember seeing a video of the inner workings of nvidia around the time of the nv30, and they said those computers behind me a working on the nv50.

 

[jiffylube1024]

Originally posted by: shabby
Its hard to imagine they started work on this 6 years ago, does that mean ms was thinking of dx10 back then?
I do remember seeing a video of the inner workings of nvidia around the time of the nv30, and they said those computers behind me a working on the nv50.

They probably kept changing it as the technology got better, plus it was obviously put on hold for a bit when they implemented other features, notably SLI, which must've taken some R&D.

Think about how long 3dfx's VSA architecture was in design, and it was basically just a scalable Voodoo2(3) GPU with multi processor capability and a few new features (like enabling 32-bit rendering). Or 3dfx's stillborn Rampage technology.

 

[Avalon]

Originally posted by: jiffylube1024

Originally posted by: shabby
Its hard to imagine they started work on this 6 years ago, does that mean ms was thinking of dx10 back then?
I do remember seeing a video of the inner workings of nvidia around the time of the nv30, and they said those computers behind me a working on the nv50.

They probably kept changing it as the technology got better, plus it was obviously put on hold for a bit when they implemented other features, notably SLI, which must've taken some R&D.

Think about how long 3dfx's VSA architecture was in design, and it was basically just a scalable Voodoo2(3) GPU with multi processor capability and a few new features (like enabling 32-bit rendering). Or 3dfx's stillborn Rampage technology.

Maybe this is Rampage

 

[Pabster]

Originally posted by: Acanthus
From an engineering standpoint this is an aggressive, wild, and expensive design.

True. Let's hope it brings "wild" performance benefits too :laugh:

 

[schneiderguy]

Originally posted by: shabby
Its hard to imagine they started work on this 6 years ago, does that mean ms was thinking of dx10 back then?
I do remember seeing a video of the inner workings of nvidia around the time of the nv30, and they said those computers behind me a working on the nv50.

afaik nvidia/ati work 4-5 generations ahead of whatever they have out right now, so right now nvidia is working on the G120 and ATI is working on the R1000 :Q

 

[josh6079]

Originally posted by: schneiderguy
afaik nvidia/ati work 4-5 generations ahead of whatever they have out right now, so right now nvidia is working on the G120 and ATI is working on the R1000 :Q

ATI isn't working on the R1000.

D.A.M.I.T. is

 

[maxxxxel]

http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=4083

TSMC plans to roll out the 55-namometer process technology in the second quarter of 2007 in a bid to further widen the gap in the competition between it and rivals. TSMC will first apply the leading-edge process technology to logic chips, including graphics chips and chipsets. TSMC has decided to step up research and development of 55nm and 45nm process technologies. Volume production of the 80nm process technology, with Nvidia and ATI has already started. They expect the 65nm process technology to enter into volume production next quarter, with Qualcomm, Freescale Semiconductor and Altera to also adopt the process. TSMC will begin the pilot production of low-power 55nm process in the third quarter next year.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: RichUK

Originally posted by: maxxxxel

Originally posted by: RichUK
what are those weird metal things on top of the heatsink

Something to do with water cooling?

Yes its water cooling, that will be for the top model i guess

thats crazy, i never thought nVidia would resort to water cooling.

oh yes, Nvidia G-unit with 50 cent pumping out your graphics like he pumps out ****** rap tracks. should be a corker

 

[nitromullet]

Just to put the size of this card into perspective...

The article says that the card is 280mm (11") long, and the ATX specification states that an ATX motherboard is 244mm (9.6") wide. So, it looks like you'll have a bit of overhang... One of these will just fit into my case thanks to the side mounted 6-pin plugs. Actually, I could squeeze in two, but I don't think I have enough juice for that or room for a bigger PSU.

Someone said earlier in that the R600 card was rumored to be 33cm long. That's almost 13" long. Looks like gamers are going to have start buying E-ATX cases from now on...

 

[Avalon]

Originally posted by: nitromullet
Just to put the size of this card into perspective...

The article says that the card is 280mm (11") long, and the ATX specification states that an ATX motherboard is 244mm (9.6") wide. So, it looks like you'll have a bit of overhang... One of these will just fit into my case thanks to the side mounted 6-pin plugs. Actually, I could squeeze in two, but I don't think I have enough juice for that or room for a bigger PSU.

Someone said earlier in that the R600 card was rumored to be 33cm long. That's almost 13" long. Looks like gamers are going to have start buying E-ATX cases from now on...

That would be ridiculous if true. I know that the only reason an 11" G80 could fit in my case is because of the top mounted 6 pin plugs. Otherwise, they'd just bump into my various hard drives poking out.

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: nitromullet
Just to put the size of this card into perspective...

The article says that the card is 280mm (11") long, and the ATX specification states that an ATX motherboard is 244mm (9.6") wide. So, it looks like you'll have a bit of overhang... One of these will just fit into my case thanks to the side mounted 6-pin plugs. Actually, I could squeeze in two, but I don't think I have enough juice for that or room for a bigger PSU.

Someone said earlier in that the R600 card was rumored to be 33cm long. That's almost 13" long. Looks like gamers are going to have start buying E-ATX cases from now on...

These could be engineering samples too, which are always substantially larger than retail.

 

[Smartazz]

Can we expect around 100% performance increase over the G71? I read somewhere that Nvidia was planning to double performance this generation.

 

[Smartazz]

Originally posted by: Ackmed

Originally posted by: Wreckage

Originally posted by: Ackmed
Im just anal about my wires.

Yet, you have no problem with a dongle....:roll:

Its outside the case. Would you like to show the inside of your PC? If the dongle bothers you, then your PC must be clean?

I like a clean and tidy PC. No rats nest of wires, no extra crap thats not need (poorly placed exhast fans) etc. The dongle does nothing to slow air flow, or clutter up the PC. If the dongle bothered me, then having dual displays would, as thats another cable back there too. Or my 5.1 audio cables, instead of just the single for stereo speakers. Or my optical cable thats hooked up as well. See a trend?

Some pics of my PC, or how it was before I took out the master card. Im on a single X1900XT now.
Pic 1
Pic 2
Pic 3
Pic 4

The dongle doesnt bother me.

How do you do that? The inside of my case is a mess. I just made sure no wires were hanging over the GPU, CPU and RAM.

 

[nitromullet]

Originally posted by: Acanthus

Originally posted by: nitromullet
Just to put the size of this card into perspective...

The article says that the card is 280mm (11") long, and the ATX specification states that an ATX motherboard is 244mm (9.6") wide. So, it looks like you'll have a bit of overhang... One of these will just fit into my case thanks to the side mounted 6-pin plugs. Actually, I could squeeze in two, but I don't think I have enough juice for that or room for a bigger PSU.

Someone said earlier in that the R600 card was rumored to be 33cm long. That's almost 13" long. Looks like gamers are going to have start buying E-ATX cases from now on...

These could be engineering samples too, which are always substantially larger than retail.

I have considered that, and quite honestly, I am hoping that is the case. Especially, the dual power connector part.

 

[jiffylube1024]

Originally posted by: Avalon

Maybe this is Rampage

They Should call it the Nvidia GeForce Voodoo Banshee 8800 GTX .

 

[nitromullet]

I showed this to a friend of mine, and he said it made him think of this.

 

[OCNewbie]

I really hope Woot can pull through for us this time too and find a truckload of these before the offical release and sell them much cheaper than MSRP. I'm crossing my fingers.

 

[Ackmed]

Originally posted by: Smartazz

Originally posted by: Ackmed

Originally posted by: Wreckage

Originally posted by: Ackmed
Im just anal about my wires.

Yet, you have no problem with a dongle....:roll:

Its outside the case. Would you like to show the inside of your PC? If the dongle bothers you, then your PC must be clean?

I like a clean and tidy PC. No rats nest of wires, no extra crap thats not need (poorly placed exhast fans) etc. The dongle does nothing to slow air flow, or clutter up the PC. If the dongle bothered me, then having dual displays would, as thats another cable back there too. Or my 5.1 audio cables, instead of just the single for stereo speakers. Or my optical cable thats hooked up as well. See a trend?

Some pics of my PC, or how it was before I took out the master card. Im on a single X1900XT now.
Pic 1
Pic 2
Pic 3
Pic 4

The dongle doesnt bother me.

How do you do that? The inside of my case is a mess. I just made sure no wires were hanging over the GPU, CPU and RAM.

Just some planning ahead, routing wires the same way, and trying to find ways to hide them. Going behind the mobo tray is a common area to hide the wires.