Nvidia Launching New Hardware to Coincide with Crysis Release

[redrumy3]

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http://www.maximumpc.com/article/nvidia_launching_new_hardware_to_coincide_with_crysis_release

NVIDIA'S NEXT SHOT IN THE GPU WAR

During his speech, Nvidia’s senior vice president Dan Vivoli let slip that Nvidia intended to “launch new hardware to coincide with Crysis’ launch.” Vivoli didn’t elaborate, but the rumor mill has been predicting that Nvidia would ship a new top-end GPU right before the holiday shopping season, just as they did with the GeForce 8800 last year.

Nvidia has been working closely with Crytek throughout the life of this project, according to Vivoli, who told the press that Crysis is “the most advanced game ever developed.” Comparing Crysis to Dinosaur Island, the tech demo that Crytek eventually turned into Far Cry, Vivoli claimed that the new game performs “3,000 operations per pixel, compared to 30 operations per pixel in Dinosaur Island.” He said Crytek had created “85,000 shaders for the game, about the same shader complexity as today’s animated films.”

 

[Hardin]

Very interesting, the current cards just aren't enough for dx 10. BTW your avatar is awesome.

 

[nd4spdbh2]

Very interesting, the current cards just aren't enough for dx 10. BTW your avatar is awesome.

? my 8800gts 640 pumps out the fps like a mad man... but an even better gfx card would be cool, maybe they can get the same performance jump as they did from the 79XX series to the 8800's!

 

[aja]

BTW your avatar is awesome.

hehe it's scarey

I agree, DX10 needs more displacement

 

[Hardin]

? my 8800gts 640 pumps out the fps like a mad man... but an even better gfx card would be cool, maybe they can get the same performance jump as they did from the 79XX series to the 8800's!

What game are you playing? All the dx 10 benchmarks that I have seen have had >60 fps.

 

[reneki]

Is this not just the 8800gt? nothing big really.

 

[Hardin]

That's what I thought at first but the line "Vivoli didn’t elaborate, but the rumor mill has been predicting that Nvidia would ship a new top-end GPU right before the holiday shopping season, just as they did with the GeForce 8800 last year." leads me to believe that they might have something more planned because an 8800 GT certainly wont be top end.

 

[Immortal_Hero]

They better do it in the next 70 days while my step up is still good!!!!!!!! Or I will be .

 

[aja]

Is this not just the 8800gt? nothing big really.

uh, 8800gt?

okay

 

[Immortal_Hero]

I would lean towards it being the 8800 GT so mid ranger can have a card to play Crysis w/o breaking the bank.

 

[aja]

I would lean towards it being the 8800 GT so mid ranger can have a card to play Crysis w/o breaking the bank.

Wow you sound exaclty like Nvidia!

 

[twophayse]

Instead of new hardware, how about cutting $100 off the price of the current 8800s?

 

[Kibokun]

If this is some sort of 9xxx series...I think me and my bank account will CRY.

<-Early 8800 adopter.

 

[DumpALump]

Well hopefully they release something "Top-End" so everything else should start to drop in price. I'm really hoping for a whole new generation. In a year or so when DX10 becomes a little bit more mainstream, then I can buy that generation instead of the current 8800 that don't perform that well in DX10 anyways. For $150-200 or so used no doubt

 

[Hardin]

If this is some sort of 9xxx series...I think me and my bank account will CRY.

<-Early 8800 adopter.

If it was any other card launch then the 8800s would be outdated by now. We should be thankful they have lasted this long.

 

[Vipasnipa]

Yeah, I'd really like a new line as well, e.g. 9XXX. All the benchies we have so far for the 8 series show disappointing performance in DX10 at decent resolutions and AA/AF settings.

 

[satandole666]

Considerably off topic (nVidia hardware aside, I mean) the review of the game wasn't very positive at all...

Now it wouldn’t be fair of me to judge the game before it’s shipped, but I can tell you what I saw and heard during the event. In an all-too-brief one-on-one discussion with Cevat before the hands-on sessions, Crytek’s CEO told me he thought they’d “shown too much of the game too early,” and that they had “built up people’s expectations.

In other words it didn't live up to the hype.

The first thing I attempted to do, of course, was shoot down a few palm trees because there’s been so much discussion of the game’s fully destructible environment. I managed to blow up a few trees, but many more refused to succumb to my efforts.

There goes that destructible environment?

I also didn’t encounter game characters that exhibited the amazing level of detail of those images released very early in the game’s development. As Crytek has begun the final push to get the game out the door, I think they’ve begun to realize just how much visual fidelity they’ll need to sacrifice in order to ship a game that’s playable on mainstream hardware.

It all sounds like bad news to me.

But here's to getting a $300-350 GTX (c'mon price cuts).

 

[johnnysd]

I talked to EVGA customer support today about DVI cabling from my 8800GTS 320 to my new LCD. At the end, I offhandedly mentioned that I had purchased the 880GTS in hopes of upgrading my video card with the 90 day program but that I would probably only be able to get an 8800GTX. He said

EVGA: "no, we are coming out with a new line of cards Mid-November for shipping late November. I cannot give out specs but they will be a significant upgrade"

Me: "over the 8800GTX"

EVGA: "Yes"

Just a hearsay rumour but he WOULD know, so I think that there will be at least one card above the 8800 Ultra as part of the refresh. I did not press him anymore than this, but I think he does know the specs, and that they will be better than the top end now.

 

[reneki]

Interesting conversation you had there, hopefully he wasn't yanking your chain or something. Here's to hoping it's true.

 

[aja]

I'm thinking maybe a 8900 with 1gig RAM but a similar core...