New nvidia GPU card launch October 30th

TAC4U · 21 Oct 2009 at 16:02

Strife212 said:
For the first time since Radeon 9700 (Geforce 4 era) ATI are in the lead, how does that make nvidia a "******** joke"

ATi lead with the 9xxx and x1xxx series and again with the 4xxx series. Sure they failed with the 3xxx series but nVidia blew their 5xxx series and has been playing the rebadge game ever since ATi's 4xxx series launch. It's all swings and roundabouts. Still, nVidia's behaviour with PhysX and DX10.1 was disgusting and the fake card nonsense with Fermi was pretty low. I'd rather support ATi and their efforts to improve performance, than nVidia with their efforts to buy off developers and confuse the market with renaming schemes.

LoadsaMoney · 21 Oct 2009 at 16:20

Look at the things they've done, got Dx10 crippled down so it never took off and was hardly used, got Dx10.1 removed from games as they didn't have it, and it brought ATi's much cheaper cards up to their cards performance, said they weren't going to do Dx10.1, its not important to them, rebranded the old 8800's about 20 times, and each time upping the prices because they made them into higher series cards by changing the first 8 to a 9 etc... on the sticker, and now what are they doing, showing off bits of wood as fermi's, releasing low end Dx10.1 cards.... i could go on.

Seriously the ***** are a joke, and i for one am well pleased they are in trouble now, as it serves the ***** right.

tindale · 21 Oct 2009 at 16:20

Mojo said:
Hey, fancy dress is fun! All the fancy dress parties I've been to have resulted in a lot of alcohol being consumed and fun times ensuing! Plus, if I'm honest, Nvidia have every right to plug Arkham Asylum. It's the first game that has actually made any difference to the graphics when using physx

*edit* just read the 'non-alcoholic' bit of the blurb, ok Nvidia have lost all my vote

They had organised a free cocktail bar, and a massive punch bowl, but then they realised that one of the guests was going to be wearing an ATI tie, so to help us ,the consumer, get the best performance from the party, the Alcohol was dissabled.

I hear there is a hack doing the rounds, just have a quick google for the "bottle hidden in big coat fix".

LoadsaMoney · 21 Oct 2009 at 16:23

NickK said:
Paper dragon launch?

Fenris · 21 Oct 2009 at 16:26

tindale said:
They had organised a free cocktail bar, and a massive punch bowl, but then they realised that one of the guests was going to be wearing an ATI tie, so to help us ,the consumer, get the best performance from the party, the Alcohol was dissabled.

I hear there is a hack doing the rounds, just have a quick google for the "bottle hidden in big coat fix".

NickK · 21 Oct 2009 at 16:40

LoadsaMoney said:

Fermi origami demonstrator failed - they had to take a saw to it!

Leviathan · 21 Oct 2009 at 17:10

as much as NV are sturgling im still really dont wnat ot go anywere near ATI to they improve more and better patches and things.

I will happy wait for NV if its out soon as i wil only go down to a ATI if im desperate.

Axil · 22 Oct 2009 at 08:44

So essentially the new Nvidia card is a hack together putting a 275GTX and a 250GTS together on the same board with the 275 handling graphics and the 250GTS solely there to do physX. Smells of desperation to me.

Source http://vr-zone.com/forums/498600/evga-and-nvidia-to-launch-a-new-dual-gpu-card-on-halloween.html

Freddie1980 · 22 Oct 2009 at 09:36

Meh, this is one of those token video cards that you read about from time to time normally when existing hardware is coming to the end of it's life, ATI have done the same in the past with a dual chip X1800 (which came with an external power supply).

I would expect about 1000 of these cards to be made (like the ASUS GTX295 Mars edition) and once there sold out they won't get replaced and the memory of the said card will quickly be confined to vaults of video card history only to be remembered from time to time on messages boards 'as that card that could play Batman with PhysX'.

RavenXXX2 · 22 Oct 2009 at 09:39

Yeah fairly lame, EVGA have not much else worth selling with most of the NV gear being EOL, so this smells of desperation.

londonbairn · 22 Oct 2009 at 11:36

They need to get rid of all those 275 stock I imagine since no one with any sense will be buying them at their price currently

chaparral · 22 Oct 2009 at 13:24

Axil said:
So essentially the new Nvidia card is a hack together putting a 275GTX and a 250GTS together on the same board with the 275 handling graphics and the 250GTS solely there to do physX. Smells of desperation to me.

Source http://vr-zone.com/forums/498600/evga-and-nvidia-to-launch-a-new-dual-gpu-card-on-halloween.html

What a totally rubbish card/idea :mad:

LoadsaMoney · 22 Oct 2009 at 14:39

Pmsl, im howling here, its a rebrand

EVGA has teamed up with Nvidia to launch a hybrid graphics card that unfortunately has nothing to do with Fermi, but has a lot to do with rebranding. According to various sources around the net, this card will use a combination of GT200b and G92b GPUs on a single PCB, and the idea is that one GPU does the rendering while other will be left to fiddle with PhysX.

We got used to Nvidia's rebranding, but to rebrand two GPUs on a single PCB is something that we honestly didn't expect. The new card is supposedly a GTX 275 and GTS 250 on a single PCB. If that is true, then the card will have 240 stream processors and 896MB of memory for rendering and 128 stream processors and 512MB of memory for PhysX.

http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/16089/1/

Got to give them credit, they've really excelled themselves this time, im absolutely crying here, its brilliant!!!

Greebo · 22 Oct 2009 at 14:43

Lets take votes on names shall we?

I reckon maybe "GTX275 Physx" but that's a bit lame.

Maybe "GTX 27550"?

But my favorite currently is "GTX320". They'll sell them by the boat load with that name

tmaxxthomson · 22 Oct 2009 at 14:51

lmao. what next dare i ask?? xD

Biffa · 22 Oct 2009 at 14:54

GTX275SiturbonutterFTW!@# edition

Lightnix · 22 Oct 2009 at 14:59

9800 GTX 275!

tmaxxthomson · 22 Oct 2009 at 15:00

Biffa said:
GTX275SiturbonutterFTW!@# edition

lmao. turbonutter xD

Geckovich · 22 Oct 2009 at 15:01

Called it.

Geckovich said:
OK, serious guess.

Dual GPU card. 200 series and g92 chip on one pcb. launched as the gtx285 physX edition.

With ideas like this I could work for nvidia, I just rehashed two old chips into one product.

I could work for them!

bru · 22 Oct 2009 at 15:30

to be fair to nvidia, if im reading this right, it isnt thier doing its evga's.

still a stupid idea though.