G71 Info

[FarFarAway]

Well with ATI looking set to smash the market wide open in September with their r520 - nvidia have their own plans for their "Ultra" card.

With a 512mb frame buffer (memory) and some pretty damn tasty sounding clock speeds

The "Faster G70", which is how the G71 is being called internally now, targets almost insane clock speeds. We have learned that several boards achieved a clock speed of 800MHz, which just goes to prove that tweaks being done in 110nm G71 core will make R520 tremble, and force ATI to respond with its 32-pipe R580 as soon as possible. However, we have to warn you that we haven't been able to find out in what environment this clockspeed was achieved. But it was achieved using new and improved two-slot cooling, not water or phase-change cooling.

The New Cooling

Well this looks more like the cooling you would want on one of these cards.

I hope they manage to get the exhaust actually going OUT of the case as that would be a much better design than the current solution.

On prototype boards, cooling solution is separated in two halves, with nicely sized 72 or 80mm fan in the middle. Both halves feature large number of aluminium fins, through which two heat pipes lead the heat from the center block (hidden under the fan) which covers the GPU completely. Also, background of the board is identical to the one found on 7800GTX (plastic "heatspreaders" on GDDR-3 memory, plastic stabilizator on to release strain on the PCB).

And in Sum of all the rumours:

[QUOTE="The Inquirer]So, to sum what we know about G71, possibly dubbed the 7800 Ultra:

- 110nm process, modestly revised GPU

- unexpected clockspeed (up till' this story, of course)

- dual-slot aluminium cooling with at least four heatpipes

- ultra-silent, large-fin large-diameter fan

- 512 MB of GDDR-3 memory, provided by Samsung. Capacity of the chips: unknown[/QUOTE]

Looking good for our battle of the Big cards!!

The Inquirer did source their article, but this has been withdrawn on request of nvidia I expect

Full article @ The Inquirer

 

[ionicle_old]

this is gonna be a full blown war at this rate! although i think in this case nvidia have the upper hand

 

[NickS]

I think ATi is still gonna spank nVidia. I kinda hope they do.

 

[ionicle_old]

WHAT?! nvidia have always been the second best for ages, now they have the chanve to beat ATI

 

[FarFarAway]

WHAT?! nvidia have always been the second best for ages, now they have the chanve to beat ATI

Nvidia have been a step ahead of ATI for the last gen - at least in terms of SM 3.0 support and great architecture. Now ATI will strike back - will nvidia be ready??

 

[FragTek]

Nvidia have been a step ahead of ATI for the last gen - at least in terms of SM 3.0 support and great architecture. Now ATI will strike back - will nvidia be ready??

I think the answer will be yes... The G71 sounds like a spank all gpu.