Have you seen this chart? (incl. G800)

[GD]

It doesn't seem very promising does it? :-(((((

[Jorden]

First off, how can they include a vidcard that hasn't even been announced yet?
Second, how can they include numbers on that same vidcard, when there's no clue on them? Or did someone secretly test an Alpha model and thought that would be good enough?
Third, how many question marks are in there?

Jord.

[ALBPM]

Where did this chart come from????????

Paul

[GD]

Hi!

First of all they do not include one vidcard that has not been released yet... They include many such cards :-) (that radeon II seems like a real beast :-) )

I cannot answer the second and third question for I do not know the answer.

There are many ?s indid :-).

ALBPM

I found it on www.reactorcritical.com (the guys who post the leaked nVidia drivers :-) ).

Here's a link http://www.reactorcritical.com/chips/summary.shtml

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[Jorden]

4 questionmarks?

Get another count and see if you can reach 17 as well
And that's the G800 only !!

LOL... never mind

Btw, wtf is a Kyro??


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[Werdna]

Well even if there's were ALL totally correct it wouldn't be such a bad thing, we're all reasonably happy with our G400s, if we could possible get something as good that has MORE features and is even faster then how cool is that, who cares if it's amazingly faster than everything else.

[GD]

Sorry Jorden I thought that your question was referring to the number of question marks in your post :-) (I corrected it immediatelly, when did you see it? :-) )

Kyro is the new card from PowerVR/Videologic (that draw-only-the-visible-objects thing which never worked as expected with neon... seems to be a lot beter with kyro though).

What is iDCT and DX8 shaders support anyway? :-)

Good night everyone (it's 5:30 after midnight here in Greece)

GD

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[Cloudy]

Kyro is the latest PowerVR. You can read about it in www.firingsquad.com, cool little thing since the numbers on the chart are misleading. It uses tile rendering which virtually multiplies the fill rate and brandwith. Besides, 8 textures - wow !!!
I 4got what iDCT is but there are a few new features not mentioned in this table which will be on the G800, check my latest post - "GeForce killer" for more info about the G800.

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[Nuno]

The reactor critical guy who made it must be a dumb ass. Including data numbers from cards that aren´t announced yet is preety dumb, but writing wrong info about cards that are out for a year now is kinda funny.

AFAIK, the G400 Max has 2 pipelines, doing 300 Mpixel/texel / sec.

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[GD]

Hi!

Yes that pipeline thing started me thinking as well... Another thing I cannot understand is why there is no difference between the single textured and multi textured fill rate... Am I ignoring something?


Btw have you noticed that the G800 is the only chipset (according to the chart) to feature an odd pipeline number? :-)

GD

[Greebe]

Hello Mike,

Sunday, July 23, 2000, 4:16:00 PM, you wrote:

M> I'm curious as to the accuracy of your G800 specs shown here:
M> http://www.reactorcritical.com/chips/summary.shtml

M> I find that this is a big pill for me to swallow.
M> Care to comment?

These specs was on www.ixbt-labs.com. I guess they are from Gigabyte
inside information.

Best regards,
Konstantin mailto:reactor@reactor.ru

[Nuno]

I find most amusing they don´t know the clock speed/fill rate of Radeon256, but they already know the Radeon II will be shiping at 300 Mhz with a blazing 1800 Mpix/sec fill

[Jorden]

I think it's cool they show the ATI Radeon II in the list, while the Radeon is yet to surface, or just has...

[Joel]

Come on guys. Anybody with enough time on their hands could make a chart like that just from rumors found on the internet. Let's wait for the official announments. I'm sure the G800 will not disappoint.

Joel

[fds]

If my memory serves me right IDCT is something for accelerating software DVD playback. The major players already take advantage of cards which support it (of which there are plenty).