nVidia realeasing the power of 3

Brent_Justice said:
Somebody in this thread has now guessed correctly. :p
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Except for that, I was going to guess third-gen PVP in the new cores (or driver enabling of new features in G7x). NV40 had the [broken] first-gen, which became the [fixed] second generation in NV41/NV43; perhaps G7x will add stuff like encoding which was missing from the GF6 series. Remember all the stuff nVidia said was supposed to happen because of the video processor?
 
Skrying said:
That was said earlier and he said it was wrong.

I still think its a chipset thing.
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Like a new chipset>?

Cause i dont think its time for an Nforce 4 SLI replacement is it? :confused:
 
Brent_Justice said:
Somebody in this thread has now guessed correctly. :p
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Ha! it was me! So it's either the new integrated CPU or NVIDIA is buying ATI.

NVIDIA + 3DFX + ATI = Power of 3.

Or C51 + NForce + Soundstorm.
 
Here, I've compiled a list of what it ISN'T and what it COULD BE according to the mighty word of Brent:

NOT 3 cards in SLI
NOT 3 GPUs on one card
NOT a triple head card
NOT good for consumers
NOT new 7x00s
NOT a PS3 announcement

(so far none of our guesses are correct)

POSSIBLY Multi-monitor support for SLI
POSSIBLY Nforce chipset related
POSSIBLY SM 3.0 / SLI / HDR
POSSIBLY 3 Processors working together (1 GPU / 2 CPU dual core)
POSSIBLY New drivers
POSSIBLY Holy spirit infused into graphics card

(Someone has guessed correctly!)

Bearing this in mind, and recalling past rumors of drivers leveraging dual core architecture, I would guess that the dual core CPU rumor is probably what this "power of 3" is. It is probably in their 8x.xx series drivers.

But I'm sure we'll find out soon enough!

And yes, I have too much time on my hands.
 
Probably, the C51 chipset that will support SLI also and will allow the C51 intergrated graphics to help, or maybe control a second or third monitor.
 
jonmac36 said:
Dude, I've been unleashing the power of 3 for months now.

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Dude, me too. It's funny i'm only 15 and shaving. To be 16 in october. Alot of my friends don't shave.
 
Skrying said:
Probably, the C51 chipset that will support SLI also and will allow the C51 intergrated graphics to help, or maybe control a second or third monitor.
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That would be cool and worth waiting for. ;)
 
foofighter06 said:
That would be cool and worth waiting for. ;)
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Yeah because I love integrated graphics and I always get real excited about a new IG platform.
 
Brent_Justice said:
I'm just in a really good mood tonight

Quakecon is next week!
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Agusut 11 = QuakeCon

NV will be releasing their 7800gt and rubbing ATI' face with the power of 3 ie SLI/SM3.0/HDR
 
Nvidia have been talking about multithreaded drivers for a while now, I wouldn't be surprised if that's the big announcement. I wonder if I'll get a big improvement on this dual Athlon system... :D
 
swatX said:
Agusut 11 = QuakeCon

NV will be releasing their 7800gt and rubbing ATI' face with the power of 3 ie SLI/SM3.0/HDR
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You really don't read and or know who you're quoting do you?

Brent writes the video card reviews for this website. He knows more about this than any of us, as he has to sign the NDA's. He already said Nvidia was not releasing a new video card at QuakeCon.
 
Tim said:
You really don't read and or know who you're quoting do you?

Brent writes the video card reviews for this website. He knows more about this than any of us, as he has to sign the NDA's. He already said Nvidia was not releasing a new video card at QuakeCon.
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lol i know who he is. i will bet you NV is releasing a card at quakecon!
 
NickN said:
Maybe 3 GPUs on the same card? Gigabyte had a 6600GT with dual GPUs on it (the 3D1, I think?), so 3 smaller GPUs is probably feasible.
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Yeah They do but the performance on that thing is not as good as having 1 6800GT
 
FearlessUser said:
Could maybe have something to do with a PS "3" announcement of some sort? Just a wild guess...
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no because it says "so why buy old graphics for you PC"
 
I don't think it's something to do with new cards. Yes the 7800GT is being hard launched that day but this is different.
 
Perhaps its the untroduction of a game that takes full advantage of the technology Nvidia has to offer and that will embarras ATI since it wont run on thier hardware.

Or

1) New and ground breaking driver
2.) New modular developemnt kit to go with it
3.) The Ultra to use on your shiny new game

Lame I know but I just woke up
 
I bet the nVidia folks are reading everyones posts and giggling at the guesses, theories and ideas. Probably giving them some ideas as well. I love it
 
kcthebrewer said:
7800 (vanilla/GT/X)
7600 (vanilla/GT/X)
7200 (vanilla/GT/X)
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that is probably it.
my initial guess was Playstation 3. :rolleyes:

edit: opps, nevermind:
tornadotsunamilife said:
I imagine it is the rest of the G7x line NOT including the so called 'Ultra' version, which I doubt exists right now.
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hello...may I take a guess? (or two?)

http://www.nvidia.com/page/home.html

...so don't buy old graphics for your PC

August 11th, nVidia delivers

people...that is so just a 'dig' at ATI

1)"old graphics" ATI beat nVidia with the X850XT PE...even tho it used 'older' tech(Dx9b and SM2)...now that is the big selling point for all the nVidia cards(6600 and up)...as people start looking/thinking about tomorrows games..nVidia is better(for now...until r520 comes out)...so this is just a perfect time for nVidia to sell their new cards(and the 6000's too)

2)"August 11th" is the release date of the 7800GT...its also kinda the end of summer, so all the kids that worked all summer(and saved) will have cash..also the time when collage kids get money for school(loans and folks) and I know a few that used some of that to build 'puters...also nVidia needs to sell a lot of cards fast..before r520 comes...look how much the price has dropped on the GTX ..look for prices on the cards to be at their best...then they may go up(?)

3)"delivers" ...yeah..thats their new key word..ATI is have'n a hard time doing that now..so they are rub'n it in about what they did with the GTX...and say'n they are going to do it again


POWER OF 3

nVidia has 3 new cards...we have one for sale now..the 7800GTX
we know that the 7800GT comes out then
and there has been just as many(if not more) sightings of the Quadro FX4500 than the GT..so thats going to come out too
maybe there will never be an Ultra..and that is it(I read that when I was looking for the FX4500) the 6800Ultra didn't work..even the top 'benchers' use the 6800GT for record scores....and thats why they are still high priced, nVidia didn't make enough of them to bring the price down, because they didn't sell...so we get the FX4500...this gives life back to the "FX" name..nVidia did that because it was 3DFX that got their cards going after they bought them a put their people to work..and in SLI too...maybe thats who is 'getting their kicks from the "3" thing, makers of the world greatest card, Voodoo3, 3DFX

so...
7800GTX, 7800GT, and Quadro FX4500
 
T Rush said:
7800GTX, 7800GT, and Quadro FX4500
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he did say that someone who posted in the thread already was right, and no one posted what you said, so that can't be it. ;)
 
im still going with a new driver

but you made a very good point

the driver will:
1. improve SLI
2. make use of BOTH cpu cores in games (x2, pD)
3. boost performance
 
or its just something that the new 3rd card has....something I used before...but now it come's with the card..built in...and now these cards should have the power to do...esp. with 2 cards in SLI...as that would be perfect...SLI really didn't do that much when combined together...but for this...use'n two cards makes perfect sense

and this is something that will work with all games...something that really hasn't been taken advantage of with games....but I have done it before...and the effect is just amazing...I was hooked on it...even tho it really made the games run much slower with my old GeForce3...but SLI would change all that....making games run much better with it...this might even be what they call SLI2...

look at this photo...what is on this card, that has never been on a video card before?
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Stereo 3D Connector
that is built right into the card..and divers to run it with SLI(SLI does not work with the 3D drivers out now)

how the 3D Stereo works is...

the game is drawn twice...in two views

with the old one slow card set-up this sucked

because it was like the video card had to do twice the work

the card would show one view...and then at the next refresh of the display show the other...so the card was in-sync with the displays re-fresh...then you had a pair of glasses that would 'flicker' in-sync with the display...blacking out one eye...so it would see one image...and then the other eye, so it would see a different image

looking at the screen without the glasses just looked like a mess(they now have display that can some how do this without glasses)
but with the glasses on...any game is now really 3D...your monitor looked liked a fish tank....you felt like you could stick your hand in a touch stuff

http://www.nvidia.com/object/3d_stereo.html

now with two cards in SLI...one card could just draw one view....and the 2nd card could draw the other view
 
Brent, is it hardware or software? Did it impress you or don´t you think its a big deal? If you can rate with a scale between 1 (worst) and 10 (best), what rating would you give it? I know you are under NDA, but if you wrote something like "software, 8", shouldn´t get you into trouble AFAIK. ;) If it could, nevermind my questions. :)
 
you can try it out now if you have any nVidia card(with the non-SLI 3D driver they have now)

they have settings for just use'n the old school red/green 3D glasses(if you can dig some up...party store?)

I'll have to dig out my old pair of "flicker" glasses that came with my GeForce3..and try it with the 6600GT I have now...those use a cable that you plugged in between the monitor cable and the card...and then had a little cable running to the glasses...these cards look like you don't have to mess with the adaptor...they had to take this pretty "hard core" if they built a connector into the cards

down load the driver thing

http://www.nvidia.com/object/3dstereo_71.89.html




well...I'm just guessing here...no one really will know until the 11th

but even if its not the 3D thing

I hope they do something with SLI so that it can use it...it would be a whole new SLI 'mode'

as I just so happen to be waiting to build a new computer
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=305995&perpage=15&pagenumber=5

so I guess I can wait a few more days
 
thanks for letting me post all that....I just really wanted to see what anyone thought here about my thoughts on this....I've read here some..and saw that this thread was here...just wanted to see how the 3D thing would go over with you all


no?
yes?
maybe?
 
Power of three doesn't make sense to me for the dual-core stuff because that would be pimping a single GPU setup - and Nvidia would be pushing SLI as much as possible. That would be power of four right :confused:
 
My personal vote is that it's a driver release that supports dual-core + GPU, but I'm not 100% sure about that, because it seems to be that they would have made it to support dual-core + SLI, in which case it's the power of 4. It doesn't seem like there's enough evidence right now to know.

EDIT: I know Brent has already destroyed the theory about 3 cards in SLI, but would that even work? Would it have to be 1,2, or 4 cards?
 
Yea i think i'd toss multi-threaded drivers out.

http://techreport.com/onearticle.x/8459

This, done back in June and having an appropriate source, says release 80 (which is known to be a major release already since i think it comes with cross brand SLI as well) is multi-threaded. Considering the 77.76 Betas just came out, i really dont think its a multi-threaded driver launch, not yet.

Some other reasons in here are borderline stupid. nVidia is a multi-million dollar company, they dont make half ass promos about how they're gonna kick ATI's ass, they have more class then that. Not to mention both companies barely acknowledge the existance or threat of eachother at promo's or meetings, so i really doubt nVidia is going to start now. And im sure they're not gonna show off a technology they have already shown off plenty (HDR), so i'd toss that out for certain.


Im still sticking with my SLI motherboard + 2 Cards package or a very aggressive step up program theory. The latter going to SLI+cards package.

edit- if this is C51, i'll be kinda surprised. I hardly think its worthy of its own count down clock!
 
Shifra said:
Yea i think i'd toss multi-threaded drivers out....
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yeah...those have been leaked for while...this "Power of 3" has to be something really "showy"

heres those drivers tho...

download> NVIDIA 80.40 Beta Forceware Driver

"Nvidia stated that Release 80 should fully-enable performance boost on dual-core systems, such as the Pentium D and Athlon 64 X2. Ben de Waal, VP of GPU Software was especially proud of that supposed achievement - such as a 20-30% boost in performance from new drivers alone - of course, in certain apps. Also, a lot of SLI related improvements are due,...."

and some other interesting things that those drivers give 'hints' to...

"nForce5" chipsets from Nvidia will have integrated graphics inside"

"Number of G72 and G72-related strings also can hide screamin' fast GeForce "7600"? Go and Quadro Go products."

"the new drivers feature support for H.264 encoding on the 7800 series of products. So yes, they do have a working PureVideo processor inside"
 
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