Anyone thing AMD/ATI will surpass or catch-up to Nvidia with their next part?

[reynard]

I'm guessing the R600 or whatever it's called is only days/weeks away. Some early reports I saw claim the XTX version blew by the 8800GTX, but others say not. Anyone excited by what may come down the pipe? Think this will win back those who jumped ship to Nvidia? Discuss.

[DJOnster]

Based on some of the numbers I've seen, it does look good for AMD. Who knows if Nvidia will have a reply immediately?

[UnknownSouljer]

Based on some of the numbers I've seen, it does look good for AMD. Who knows if Nvidia will have a reply immediately?

nVidia has had plenty of time to sit around on the 8800GTX. I'm more than sure that at bare minimum there is at least a refresher part like an 8900GTX or whatever they decide they want to call it to compete with the R600 when it comes out.

[furillo]

I agree. Nvidia probably already has a new part ready to spoil ATI's party on their release date.

[pF.TK]

nV needs to, and has been, focus on their drivers... It truly is sad era when you can say my ATI drivers are more solid then nV (even Linux with AMD/ATI latest proprietary driver release for Open Source :p).

Weather they have cycles for an update, only nV knows, I would imagine so but I have seen nothing on the wire, and you would think they would be getting the word out if they had a possible R600 killer...

[abalavsan]

Meh, I could care less if it's "10% faster". I want some killer apps dammit that will even tax the 8800. Don't get me wrong, I hope things get faster, but I want more realism in my gaming and as long as AMD can support all the needed DX features plus give us good physics accelleration, I'll be happy.

[UnknownSouljer]

nV needs to, and has been, focus on their drivers... It truly is sad era when you can say my ATI drivers are more solid then nV (even Linux with AMD/ATI latest proprietary driver release for Open Source :p).
Weather they have cycles for an update, only nV knows, I would imagine so but I have seen nothing on the wire, and you would think they would be getting the word out if they had a possible R600 killer...

I dunno, I think the strategy at this point would be to announce an R600 killer when ATi hammers out their release date.

So say ATi says that R600 will be out on June 10th, nVidia would announce their release date on June 1st (or whatever date before the R600).

[Hiro]

I hope it's competitve at least. I would also like to see Crossfire being less of a hassle to set up.

[VoOdoO]

I'm awaiting to see the hardware video acceleration performance of the new AMD cards. For those that don't know, the new cards will offload the hardware video acceleration from the GPU onto a dedicated AVIVO (I assume it'll be called that) chip. In theory this would allow the lowest end card to compete or even surpass a high end NV or pre X2xxx series card in hardware video acceleration. That's assuming they equip the low end cards with them, but makes sense that they would. Cheap, high performing HTPC cards sound good to me.

[Quasar]

I'm awaiting to see the hardware video acceleration performance of the new AMD cards. For those that don't know, the new cards will offload the hardware video acceleration from the GPU onto a dedicated AVIVO (I assume it'll be called that) chip. In theory this would allow the lowest end card to compete or even surpass a high end NV or pre X2xxx series card in hardware video acceleration. That's assuming they equip the low end cards with them, but makes sense that they would. Cheap, high performing HTPC cards sound good to me.

Yeah, that would be pretty sweet for anyone looking to build a rather "smallish" HTPC that can focus on being quiet. Video offloading will take the burden off the CPU which is something that still isn't quite there.

[edogridge]

I think one edge AMD has at the moment is they will have motherboards with HDMI built in. I can't think of one nVidia board with this feature yet. This should make some cheap HTPC applications.

[rikrak]

I think one edge AMD has at the moment is they will have motherboards with HDMI built in. I can't think of one nVidia board with this feature yet. This should make some cheap HTPC applications.

Think harder. Can't post a link, but you can google it.

Abit IN9 32X-MAX Socket 775 ATX Motherboard, nForce 680i SLI Chipset, Supports Intel Core 2 Extreme / Core 2 Duo / Quad-Core CPUs, Dual DDR2 800, SLI, SATA 3Gb/s RAID, HDMI

[Ra\/eN]

I am gonna wait for R700 series...[It seems that perhaps in the R700 ATI will use multiple small GPUs on one graphics card rather than one large GPU for all tasks.}

http://images.dailytech.com/nimage/1873_large_rs700_small.jpg

http://www.guru3d.com/newsitem.php?id=4057

[Witch]

I think alot of people, me including, are hoping to see the new ATI set available in AGP. After all this time, it's still far from dead. And with the ridiculous power requirements of the x1950s and the lack of performance of competing nvidia cards for AGP including those just released, there should still be a decent market for it.
And as always, a general hello to everyone:
:FU:

[Witch]

http://www.theinquirer.org/default.aspx?article=39722

I wouldn't want anything but the 2600XT considering how sucky the other ones are. And 512mb of DDR3, of course. If it comes in under $200 would be nice, too. I've got an extremely un-impressive 7900GS right now. Talk about a buzz-kill this tired POS.