Jan/Feb 2002 Launch? for Nvidia/ATi

[K6-III]

It may come out in fall, but the specs may be available to manufacturers much sooner.

[TdB]

just saw this:

http://discuss.madonion.com/forum/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=mo3dmark2001&Number=290358&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=0&fpart=1

someone has a GF4 and got 9283 3dmarks:

http://gamershq.madonion.com/products/orb/?publish_compare.shtml?&project_type=6&dprid=2252503&search=1

do you think its for real??

[Alec]

Yes, I believe it´s real!

We, Matroxusers, are doomed! Nvidia and ATI are going to rule the world and we will be slaves working in their factories! Oh my God!

Poor us, bound to Matrox products, we can´t even taste high speed gaming anymore!


WE ARE DOOMED!

[TdB]

TdB

sounds like an "OH NO" thread

[Alec]

Eh, eh.

[DukeP]

Ah well..
As my financial situations is, atm, I will be more than happy to give matrox yet another few months to complete their new card.
~~DukeP~~

[Indiana]

TDB, if this 3DMark score is for real, then NVidia is in problems... This is (with a FSB of 266?!?) only slightly higher than what my Radeon8500 already gets and will be blasted away with ATIs next product.

No, I don't believe this score is for real... I can't get to the score anymore but from my first look at it the driver version number looked like an edited ATI one and the single scores seemed to be just slightly scaled up ones from an actual R8500 benchmark.
There always were differences between NVidia and ATI cards with NVidia being faster quite a bit in some tests and slower in others. These (most probably fake) results were faster than my Radeon8500 about the same amount for every single score, so I guess someone is just trolling.

[KeiFront]

"GeForce4" To Be Announced Feb. 5

Geforce4 extremetech

edit: link didn't worked

[2Whyzzi]

On the low-end front:

http://www.xbitlabs.com/video/sis315/

Scarry, Isn't it?

[Tempest]

Something about ATI, according to The Inquirer they will send their cards out to their partners in a couple of weeks and introduce the R300 at CeBIT: http://www.theinquirer.net/14010201.htm
...so maybe it wasn't such a dumb idea for Matrox to stay away from CeBIT (sorry, I forgot, they have completely different target markets )

Edit: As many of us know, the Geforce 4 in its many forms is supposed to be introduced the 5th of February.
Edit2: But that was already mentioned by KeiFront two posts earlier
Edit3: Cebit 2002 is 13th-20th of March.

[mdhome]

Re: TdB

Originally posted by TDB
sounds like an "OH NO" thread

Shouldnt that have been OH NO! It sounds like an OH NO thread.

Sorry.

regards MD

[KeiFront]

Speaking of a 6 month cycle (official announcment radeon 8500 10/oct/01, possible announcement R300 13/mar/02 (Cebit))

[Ant]

Hey I got an invite from nVidia to the unveiling of their new beast in San Francisco


Ant
NURC

[Nappe1]

Ant: it might seem to be beast but afaik it has not anything very new... (read: it will be memory bandwidth limited.) which, I don't think my next card to be...

still, have fun... at least try to take everything out of it, especially if nVidia pays the party totally.

[[GDI]Raptor]

Have a nice trip if you're going Ant!

Make it expensive for nVidia!!