R580 Details Emerge

by Kristopher Kubicki on 10/19/2005 6:08 AM EST
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  • Xenon14 - Tuesday, October 25, 2005 - link

    If you think back to the days of the 9700 Pro, ATI skipped a generation of cards. They were competing with the the 8500 against the geforce 3 ti500. Then Nvidia released the Geforce4, and we waited a while until the 9700 Pro blew it out of the water. I'm inclined to believe the same thing is happening now. The 7800 to the 6800 is the same as the Geforce4 was to the Geforce3... Considering the long wait, I'm inclined to believe that the 580 is gonna be a 9700pro of its day.
  • Clauzii - Tuesday, November 15, 2005 - link

    Nice post..
  • mrgq912 - Wednesday, October 19, 2005 - link

    Not that I was going to buy the ageia physics card, but I was rooting for ageia. I fondly remember the day when I first read about a 3d card back in the 90's . I was like what is a 3d card. Then games started comign about like mechwarrior and quake, and before you knew the PC gaming industry exploded.

    I was rooting for the physics guys at ageia, and was curious to see what impact they would have on our little industry. But alas, they have been denied by ATI. Maybe they can get there act together soon, or else I smell chapter 11, or even a takeover bidding war between ATI and nvidia.

    Or maybe even, ageia good get into a whole new market other than games. those guys working on the "breast mp3 player" could implement the ageia physics chip into breast implants, to give them more of realistic movement. Think of the possibilities.
  • Brian23 - Friday, October 21, 2005 - link

    i like the way you think.
  • eljefeII - Saturday, October 22, 2005 - link

    nice. yeah. that anime sort of unnatural but better than natural bounce would be nice to see.
  • DeeSlanger - Wednesday, October 19, 2005 - link

    Thanks for the tidbits K.K keep em coming. :)
  • ksherman - Wednesday, October 19, 2005 - link

    This article seems a little scatter brained to me, I found it difficult to read and understand what exactly you are talking about...

    this socket idea is interesting... would be nice to just upgrade a GPU, but i dont think it is really all that practiacal at this point
  • Scrogneugneu - Wednesday, October 19, 2005 - link

    The GPU socket would be an horrible news for motherboard makers...


    What mobo do you want? AMD / ATI? AMD / NVIDIA? INTEL / ATI? INTEL / NVIDIA?

    What a mess, my friends, what a mess... now juste imagine having to upgrade your mobo juste because you want to upgrade your GPU, leading you to buy a new CPU because yours is too old to fit on the new socket of your new mobo...


    That would be killing the flexibility of upgrading.
  • semo - Thursday, October 20, 2005 - link

    quote:

    That would be killing the flexibility of upgrading.
    that happened a long time ago: it all started with pc-133 to ddr. from socket 478 to 775 (and the fsb upgrades before that) and amd can't stop changing sockets. from ddr to ddr2. from pata to sata. from agp to pci-e.

    missing something?
  • Frackal - Wednesday, October 19, 2005 - link

    So no R580 until at least March, which probably means at least April... 6 months away eh.. and even longer for the PhysX PPU? Thought that was supposed to come out near X-mas
  • tuteja1986 - Wednesday, October 19, 2005 - link

    Nah , I think ATI learnt its lesson. Anyways good news about the ATI card able to do physics calculation because i didn't want to spend $250 on AEGIA's physics processor. I could spend that extra money on stuff like buying a better Motherboard or CPU or more hard drives.
  • DigitalFreak - Wednesday, October 19, 2005 - link

    Wow. I thought that Aegia boards were due out by Christmas? They must be having some serious problems.
  • farscape - Wednesday, October 19, 2005 - link

    With all the probs that ATI has been having for a while now, I thought the first page I got to was a fitting joke - an empty search page.
  • ElFenix - Wednesday, October 19, 2005 - link

    ATI's problems were, supposedly, only with the R520.

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