Thursday, July 24th 2008
Spy-shot of Roadmap Slide Reveals a ''Big Bang II'' from NVIDIA this September
Chile Hardware (CHW) managed to take a snap of a screen reportedly showing a roadmap slide of NVIDIA drivers which shows an entry called "Big Bang II" under the September time-scale. There are markers which NVIDIA informally refers to as "Big Bang" when the drivers bring about something very significant in terms of features. To give you an idea, the first "Big Bang" brought about support for the SLI multi-GPU technology years ago.
Although the shot is fairly illegible, it shows Big Bang II to bring in features such as driver-level Display Port connectivity support, performance and quality improvements and support for OpenGL 3.0, which seem rather plain since NVIDIA didn't regard DirectX 10 compatible drivers under a "Big Bang" either, and performance and quality increments are a day to day affair with driver releases. It would be interesting to see how this pans out.
Source:
CHW
Although the shot is fairly illegible, it shows Big Bang II to bring in features such as driver-level Display Port connectivity support, performance and quality improvements and support for OpenGL 3.0, which seem rather plain since NVIDIA didn't regard DirectX 10 compatible drivers under a "Big Bang" either, and performance and quality increments are a day to day affair with driver releases. It would be interesting to see how this pans out.
34 Comments on Spy-shot of Roadmap Slide Reveals a ''Big Bang II'' from NVIDIA this September
1 Part Suspense
1 Part Mistery
1 Part "Earth Shattering Technology"
Mix thouroghly and provide staff with enough coffee to keep them awake and productive for three months. Ensure even coating of "Big Bang" and hope it doesn't flop like the 260/280. Bake for one hour then move it quickly to the market and keep it overpriced so no one buy's it, then work on drivers to support it fully. Exclaim "Big Bang" is a sucess and laugh of last quarters losses.
Maybe im just still waiting for that can of whoopass to be unleashed - but its sounding a bit like an empty promise lately.
Has hybrid SLi been properly released yet?
Maybe its something to do with that.
They blow up?
September 11 2008... Breaking News!!!
"Al-Qaeda has drop bombs in Nvidia facilities because Bin Laden wasn't pleased by the quality of the picture delivered by the latest graphic cards.He was watching TV on PC and his beard was green!! so he decided to attack the greens. His lt's has hijacked 200 dz pigeons brainwashed them,feed them with TNT and send them to drop the shit.This is the dirtiest attack ever know in history..."
INTEL SLI !!!
Think about it, on the same day within hours of each other, we here that the new intel Architecture with the X58 is being brought forward to september. And this gets "slipped"
We know that the X58 will support SLi.
unless they come out with a $400 card that stomps the 4870X2 im going to a 4870X2 and an x58 for my next system
..probably trying to build a nuclear reactor that can power a 280 gx4...
I wonder if it'll be running on nVidia hardware and they're just waiting on the drivers from the green camp . . .
by any chance, that LHC isn't near an important AMD fabrication factility, is it?!
as for nvidia's big bang, that must be the sound of all the power grids across the world spontaniously combusting due to the power requirements of thier new video cards?