Geforce 8900: an overclocked G80 that should give R600 a run for the money.

zekrahminator · Feb 10, 2007

The title says it all, really. NVIDIA is planning on overclocking the G80 as far as they can get it, which alone wouldn't give you too much a performance increase. However, NVIDIA also has a figurative ace-in-the-hole, a driver tweak. What exactly this driver tweak does is unknown. Whatever it is, though, will give ATI some serious competition when they release their gigantic R600.

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L|NK|N · Feb 10, 2007

war is hell...

Lazzer408 · Feb 10, 2007

zekrahminator said:
However, NVIDIA also has a figurative ace-in-the-hole, a driver tweak.

Hmmm Do I hear locked features? :rolleyes:

jocksteeluk · Feb 10, 2007

just like i said before the 8800 standard edition would become the middle card, glad i didn't shell out for the first batch with price to match

GLD · Feb 10, 2007

So an nVidia Uber clocked G80 may whoop a Vanilla R600. My money is on the Uber clocked R600 reigning King once again. The driver tweak nVidia has up their sleeve. Well it is prob. just software DX10 emulation. Keep up the competition nVidia & AMD/ATi, we love the price drops!

WarEagleAU · Feb 10, 2007

Thats good news then, for ATI (AMD). I mean, if Nvidia has to uber clock their POS 8800 and do a driver tweak, the R600 must be a godsend :

rool:: :

reams on super high res with 120+ FPS with all things turned up!!!::

mullered07 · Feb 10, 2007

zekrahminator said:
NVIDIA also has a figurative ace-in-the-hole, a driver tweak. What exactly this driver tweak does is unknown. Whatever it is, though, will give ATI some serious competition when they release their gigantic R600.

Source: The Inquirer

i can guess what the driver tweak will be :wtf:

maybe it will be a working driver :roll:

JC316 · Feb 10, 2007

This is the 5800-5900 all over again. 5800 came out early and the 9700 was smacking it around. Then 5900 (which was an overclocked 5800) came out and the 9700 was still beating it, then the 9800 came out and killed the FX series.

SPHERE · Feb 10, 2007

hummmmm.. 8800gtx to 8900 mod?!? then.. hummmmm...

lol

DaMulta · Feb 10, 2007

Seeing that the new DDR and the R600 will have 2x the memory bandwidth. I will have too see all of this too believe it.

ChaoticBlankness · Feb 10, 2007

I really think the R600 is going to end up being the more "quality" product of the two. As long as AMD/ATi doesn't have driver issues like Nvidia, I don't see them screwing this up.

PyroInc · Feb 10, 2007

hopefully the prices of the 8800 gtx will come down so I can add another one to my rig. 8800 gtx sli woot!!! :rockout:

InfDamarvel · Feb 10, 2007

Sounds like complete and total bullshit because how could someone be so effing stupid. They need to change it somewhat hardware wise and crack the junk up with gddr4 memory in order to compete with ati.

Seany1212 · Feb 10, 2007

mullered07 said:
i can guess what the driver tweak will be maybe it will be a working driver

DAMN YOU MULLERED! beat me too it :roll:

Protius · Feb 10, 2007

mullered07 said:
i can guess what the driver tweak will be maybe it will be a working driver

Seany1212 · Feb 10, 2007

DaMulta said:
Seeing that the new DDR and the R600 will have 2x the memory bandwidth. I will have too see all of this too believe it.

yea DDR5, damn memory is faster than my cpu :roll:

Eric3988 · Feb 10, 2007

No love for Nvidia here, lol. Can't blame you guys though, ATi usually gives you the better bang for the buck. After all, thats why I bought my X850 for $145.

tkpenalty · Feb 10, 2007

Yup its true... nvidia have lost their loyal fans again... DejaVu?

sinner33 · Feb 11, 2007

I could use that driver tweak, hopefully it will be available to us 8800 owners

hv43082 · Feb 11, 2007

Wow talk about no lovin' for Nvidia on this forum. Well screw you guys, Nvidia is the...gr...ea...Hhahahahah couldn't even finish the sentence without cracking up. Now on to a more serious question, should I buy R600 right away or wait for a few months first.

BigD6997 · Feb 11, 2007

hv43082 said:
Wow talk about no lovin' for Nvidia on this forum. Well screw you guys, Nvidia is the...gr...ea...Hhahahahah couldn't even finish the sentence without cracking up. Now on to a more serious question, should I buy R600 right away or wait for a few months first.

right away :toast:

im starting to save now

C.Ash · Feb 11, 2007

The 8900 will be better because it has better drivers? I dont think even nVidia is crazy enough to do that.
My guess is that the 8900 GTX will be built on the 80nm process and have 1024MB of GDDR4, etc. because they cannot overclock the 90nm furthur right now anyway.

POGE · Feb 11, 2007

jocksteeluk said:
just like i said before the 8800 standard edition would become the middle card, glad i didn't shell out for the first batch with price to match

That doesnt hold water. There will always be a newer card ~6 months later.

BigD6997 · Feb 11, 2007

POGE said:
That doesnt hold water. There will always be a newer card ~6 months later.

very true..

industry-> :nutkick:

<-person who bought a card then realized its already out of date

AshenSugar · Feb 11, 2007

JC316 said:
This is the 5800-5900 all over again. 5800 came out early and the 9700 was smacking it around. Then 5900 (which was an overclocked 5800) came out and the 9700 was still beating it, then the 9800 came out and killed the FX series.

so true, and i wish people would stop saying fx cards had software emulated dx9 u cant software emulate dx9, the cards had dx9 but so poorly designed that it was USELESS.

i was one of the smucks that had a 5800ultra, POS POS POS.

And it wont just be a working driver, they will do what they did with the fx line, "quility tweaks" to gain perf in benches, ones u cant dissable because they are hard coded, so overclock the core, make a shitty driver that adds perf and BAM new card???
:roll:

sorry but i will stick with my overclocked x1900xt/xtx

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