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Confirming what i thought might happen - Hexus gives us the juice
One young gal confirmed to me that, as of the time of writing, key NVIDIA customers believe that NVIDIA's next generation, and first 90nm part, codenamed G71 is to be launched as GeForce 7900.
It would seem that a few key NVIDIA partners have already been sampled with GeForce 7900, and they're currently working towards a hard launch planned for CeBIT 2006 in Hannover, Germany (9th through to 15th March), and if so, our money's would be on watching for announcements from NVIDIA, ASUSTeK, eVGA, XFX and possibly MSI, between the 9th and 11th March.
Unlike the launch of its GeForce 7800 GTX, the current plan seems that NVIDIA will launch both the faster GTX and GT variants at the same time.
The flagship single-card product GeForce 7900 GTX is claimed to be a 32 pixel processor part with a core GPU frequency of 700/750 MHz, and should ship with 1.1ns graphics RAM clocked at 800/900MHz.
Pr0n starlets aren't normally noted for their mathematical prowess, so I was surprised to hear gentile chatter in the powder room to the effect that "with some simple math, the new part (GeForce 7900) would only have to run at circa 430MHz to roughly match the performance of the existing top line GeForce 7800 GTX 512. So even with NVIDIA's target core frequency of 700MHz, GeForce 7900 GTX seems set to be handing out some whipping.
The validity of this idle gossip was later confirmed after I pumped a humble partner for a little a bit of meat to go with my beans - the money-shot is that a 700MHz NVIDIA GeForce 7900 is currently coming in at circa 13,000 3DM2K5's on an AMD Athlon 64 FX 60 system.
Now the very fact the Nvidia is launching the latest card 2nd to ATI by some 5 weeks - might even allow some 'less painful' pricing structure to come into effect - providing ATI are sensible with their launch price of course. I am hoping that price to be £450 a card or less.
One young gal confirmed to me that, as of the time of writing, key NVIDIA customers believe that NVIDIA's next generation, and first 90nm part, codenamed G71 is to be launched as GeForce 7900.
It would seem that a few key NVIDIA partners have already been sampled with GeForce 7900, and they're currently working towards a hard launch planned for CeBIT 2006 in Hannover, Germany (9th through to 15th March), and if so, our money's would be on watching for announcements from NVIDIA, ASUSTeK, eVGA, XFX and possibly MSI, between the 9th and 11th March.
Unlike the launch of its GeForce 7800 GTX, the current plan seems that NVIDIA will launch both the faster GTX and GT variants at the same time.
The flagship single-card product GeForce 7900 GTX is claimed to be a 32 pixel processor part with a core GPU frequency of 700/750 MHz, and should ship with 1.1ns graphics RAM clocked at 800/900MHz.
Pr0n starlets aren't normally noted for their mathematical prowess, so I was surprised to hear gentile chatter in the powder room to the effect that "with some simple math, the new part (GeForce 7900) would only have to run at circa 430MHz to roughly match the performance of the existing top line GeForce 7800 GTX 512. So even with NVIDIA's target core frequency of 700MHz, GeForce 7900 GTX seems set to be handing out some whipping.
The validity of this idle gossip was later confirmed after I pumped a humble partner for a little a bit of meat to go with my beans - the money-shot is that a 700MHz NVIDIA GeForce 7900 is currently coming in at circa 13,000 3DM2K5's on an AMD Athlon 64 FX 60 system.
Now the very fact the Nvidia is launching the latest card 2nd to ATI by some 5 weeks - might even allow some 'less painful' pricing structure to come into effect - providing ATI are sensible with their launch price of course. I am hoping that price to be £450 a card or less.
off topic, damn it Mav I love your posts
