New Nvidia Chip Features 3 Billion Transistors

[Dommyboy]

Just imagine the future.

"Dad, how did you live with 8x anti-aliasing?" Oh lawdsy, how times are changing.

So, will this new card work with current mother boards with PCIe?

 

[SimuLord]

I want to see a GPU with its transistors counted in the septillions, its RAM measured in zettabytes, and with a rendering speed measured in yoctoseconds. Then I'll be impressed.

 

[Shru1kan]

Must... Suppress... Nerd-on... Uuuh!

Its unsupressable! Take evasive action!

I do want, but I don't want to even look at the price tag.

 

[Caliostro]

Anyone else was overcome by a feeling of "unnecessary overkill" after the inevitable first shock and awe?


...Seriously, I'm running a GTX275 and I have yet to stress it with every game on full max... And they look fucking amazing... 32x AA, really? Really? What for?

Can't help but feel this is just unnecessary.

 

[Spiner909]

3 billion? Damn!

 

[tsfkingsport]

3 billion sounds like a lot. Mostly because it is but how much more is this then their current top line of graphics cards? I have built a computer but all I know about my card is 9800 GTX and that it great for what I need. An answer would be appreciated.

 

[Donrad]

more IS always better so..
Oo rah
bring it on!

 

[matrix3509]

This card will obviously be used in the distant future when every man, woman, and child will own a 90 inch monitor with 3600p resolution.

 

[inflamessoilwork]

All the more reason why I should wait to upgrade

 

[inflamessoilwork]

Wait, don't Macs use nVidia chips? Because if they start using that new one, it might start making the graphics suck less.

unfortunately, nothing can help the MACs suck less.

Well done, sir. *tips hat*

 

[Femaref]

What the fuck is a transistor?

Fuck me and my 360.

That little thing that makes our electronic world go round.

 

[Sevre]

I'm excited now. Needless to say this'll cost a fuckload.

 

[Chaos Marine]

Wow...I wish I knew more about computer chips then it might seem more impressive

What that means is that it can answer yes or no faster. All computer software basically functions by the principal of binary (forgetting HEX code and the likes) so the more transistors you have, the faster it can answer yes or no and the faster it can process information. Honestly, how that relates to graphics rendering, I don't really know but if I remember correctly, this is essentially like having a P4 processor for a graphics card. Just take a few seconds to let that sink in.

 

[Chaos Marine]

Fuck yes. This means the 200 series will be dropping in price.

Might get myself a gtx295.

Don't. Wait for the prices of the next series to come out, they should (seriously, I mean it would be bloody stupid if they didn't) have DirectX 11 support which is supposed to actually lower system requirements. I just hope it's actually true unlike DirectX 10.

 

[Dys]

If the performance is proportional to the number of transistors then....what's the point? Computer games graphics have barely moved since the days of the 8800GTX :S I can understand people always wanting the best and brightest, but surely it's about time they started working on a halfway decent series of laptop cards......that goes out to ATI as well, just because you don't announce that you're making pointless leaps forward doesn't mean I don't assume it!