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Thursday, 19 October 2006 04:57 |
Nvidia is getting ready to demonstrate their latest graphics wonder at the introduction of the "definitive gaming platform" on 8 November in California according to Toms Hardware. The new cards boast 128 pixel pipelines - a whopping 80 pipelines over the highest currently available. A massive performance increase is inspected over the Geforce 7950 series and current ATI flagship models thanks to this increase. Power requirements for the top of the range model, the 8800 GTX, in SLI mode are expected to require a minimum 800w PSU! Considering the 8800GTX has two PCI-Express power connectors, if you plan on running two of these babies you'll probably need to upgrade that PSU.
Of course the real show stopper is the Direct X10 support making it the first card on the market to be ready for Vista and the new API. So far no games are available that require Direct x10 but with plenty in production such as jaw dropping Crysis, it shouldn't be long before we see a new wave in gaming eye candy.
ATI are taking things easy and don't expect to have anything available until late in the first quarter of next year. Good tactics perhaps, as the rush to adopt direct x10 cards will be slow until the software is there.
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!!! Go Console Crazy !!! 
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