Playfuls.com writes:
"So you finally have enough loot, I mean, money to buy that new NVIDIA graphics card everyone's hyping about. Well, sorry to spoil your mood, but it would seem that the next generation of NVIDIA graphics cards isn't as next-gen as you might have expected or wished. According to rumors discussed on www.tweaktown.com, the new series will bring only relatively small technical improvements, compared to the 9900s. As a matter of fact, this last series wasn't much better than the previous one: we have a single core 9900GTX and a 9900GX2 quite similar to the 9800GX2, with its two GPUs.
The reason for this lies in NVIDIA's market strategy. You see, they have to confront the "tides of darkness" from AMD's graphics cards. And they won't stand the thought of AMD winning the technical showdown, not even once. But in order to come always on top, they must hurry up with their own product releases and, simply put, there's not enough time for NVIDIA's wizards to summon up a really impressive graphics monster.
Instead, what we get looks like monsters in weak RPGs: you meet imps on the first dungeon level, then, on the second level, slightly more dangerous red imps, then black imps with yellow dots. Only on the seventh level will you encounter the much dreaded succubus. Well, NVIDIA, we kinda want the succubus now! (And don't tell us we need those imps for farming purposes.)"
"The Singapore-based indie games publisher Spiral Up Games and Qingdao/Shandong-based (China) indie games developer Aluba Studio, today announced with great happiness and excitement that their hacking adventure "Cyber Manhunt 2: New World" is coming to PC via Steam EA on May 10th, 2024." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
"The Berlin-based (Germany) indie games developer Tarock Interactive today announced with great delight and happiness that their open-world survival/crafting game "Lost Legions", is now currenly in development for PC." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
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This unfortunately is one negative cost of competition, Nvidia will be damned if AMD/Ati wins at least one battle and feel they need to put out slightly better products in a shorter lifespan then normal. the only upside to this is that on paper these cards are f*cken awesome and some well made drivers for these cards will boost performance, but of course if you already spent $600 on a card you don't want to wait for drivers.
I just hope that ATi can pick up some steam and light a fire under Nvidia that way we can see a graphics card war like we did in the mid 90's. Can't remember the companies I believe it was Voodoo and Banshee that were battling it out and that produced so much as far as innovation that I want to see that again.
as I type this. My gaming rig had a heart attack about 6 months ago, thanks to a power spike and a PSU that did not function as advertised. I was just getting ready to build a new one with a couple of 9800gx2s. Now they are announcing 9900s? WTF. It's caused me to stop and think. Many cards from two generations ago still play games fine, aside from crysis, so what's the point of buying the newest wiz bang card? I think I'll just hold off until they put the GPU on the same die as the CPU, or ditch the GPU all together, or ditch the CPU, depending on who's hype you believe.
Yeah the Nvidia has like back tracked since the 8800 series began since ATI cards couldn't compete. 9800 series is kind of a joke compared to what cards they could be releasing if there was tight competition.
The Nvidia 9900 was announced a while back if you do some searching.
Just not officially.
Fudzilla posted specs long ago about the 9900 (aka: GT200 chip)
It will apparently have over 1 BILLION transistors.. That's 25% more then the 9800GTX at the least.
So we can expect some huge performance gain with the 9900GTX
Honestly i still consider NVIDIA cards from 2 years ago to be "next-gen" video card for me