Geforce 300 series discussion

you forgot the 8800GTS 512. That was basically the precursor to the 9800GTX. The GTS was an awesome card though, my first vid card. Basically a 8800GTX for less money.

I think eyefinity is stupid, and I'll never consider it for home use as a gaming enthusiast. I'd like to see more features from nvidia to combat eyefinity. Power is great, but I wanna see innovation and features, and eyefinity sucks.

Originally Posted by thenewrick

I think eyefinity is stupid, and I'll never consider it for home use as a gaming enthusiast. I'd like to see more features from nvidia to combat eyefinity. Power is great, but I wanna see innovation and features, and eyefinity sucks.

Oh it does? ok eyefinity sucks guys, everybody stop using it and/or cancel your plans to use it in the future.

Originally Posted by thenewrick

I think eyefinity is stupid, and I'll never consider it for home use as a gaming enthusiast. I'd like to see more features from nvidia to combat eyefinity. Power is great, but I wanna see innovation and features, and eyefinity sucks.

it is stupid for some people who cannot afford 3+ monitor, or even a 5800 card

Originally Posted by shansoft

it is stupid for some people who cannot afford 3+ monitor, or even a 5800 card

It's as useless as that 3d vision, maybe more so.

Originally Posted by thenewrick

I think eyefinity is stupid, and I'll never consider it for home use as a gaming enthusiast. I'd like to see more features from nvidia to combat eyefinity. Power is great, but I wanna see innovation and features, and eyefinity sucks.

Says the guy that never used Eyefinity. If you think having a five foot stretch of LCDs in front of you sucks then who am I to argue with suckage?

I'd like to see nVidia offer the same. Whether it's used or not, the choice would be welcome.

Originally Posted by Kowan

I'd like to see nVidia offer the same. Whether it's used or not, the choice would be welcome.

in theory they can do it as well. they are not going to be able to hook up 6 monitors anytime soon but they can at least do two if I recall. all it would take is a BIOS update and some driver work

I was going to wait for the 300 series before upgrading again, but I have a feeling I will have a 5870 or two by years end.. and maybe a couple more LCDs..

I guess I consider eyefinity people to be computer spec enthusiasts, or people who buy games because they can turn up particles really high. I'm more of a competitive gamer and eyefinity is useless and impractical for me in every way. Essentially, all the effort ATI put into eyefinity I want nvidia to put into better gameplay/power/features that are everyday usable.

Originally Posted by thenewrick

I guess I consider eyefinity people to be computer spec enthusiasts, or people who buy games because they can turn up particles really high. I'm more of a competitive gamer and eyefinity is useless and impractical for me in every way. Essentially, all the effort ATI put into eyefinity I want nvidia to put into better gameplay/power/features that are everyday usable.

Having extra FOV is useless as a competitive gamer?

Originally Posted by alxnet2003

Says the guy that never used Eyefinity. If you think having a five foot stretch of LCDs in front of you sucks then who am I to argue with suckage?

What percentage of their market is going to you that feature?

Looks like it might blow away the 5800 and 5900 series from ATI. 6gb of memory seems like a ton.

There was a review on one of the tech sites recently that showed the performance difference between 512, 1 gig, and 2 gig cards. Anything above 1 gig was shown to be worthless. I can't imagine 6 unless it's for some rendering station.

It might or might not blow away the 5800 series. But I can't wait to see it. Competition is a good thing.

Originally Posted by BababooeyHTJ

What percentage of their market is going to you that feature?

I the whole thing.

Originally Posted by DigitalGriffin

There was a review on one of the tech sites recently that showed the performance difference between 512, 1 gig, and 2 gig cards. Anything above 1 gig was shown to be worthless. I can't imagine 6 unless it's for some rendering station.

The 6GB is for tesla (GPGPU variant) and Quadro (work station) cards, not Gefore (gaming) cards.

As far as 1 vs 2GB, if you max settings and crank the AA up enough on crysis you can use more than 1GB of V.ram. You'd need 3 GTX 380s to get more than a slideshow at those settings though. More than 1GB of V.ram is rarely useful.

Originally Posted by DigitalGriffin

There was a review on one of the tech sites recently that showed the performance difference between 512, 1 gig, and 2 gig cards. Anything above 1 gig was shown to be worthless. I can't imagine 6 unless it's for some rendering station.

It might or might not blow away the 5800 series. But I can't wait to see it. Competition is a good thing.

currently worthless, a while back 1gb was worthless. Games are coded for the hardware available in mass not a select few. and at the newer resolutions coming out with eyefinity 2gb may end up being more practical then 1gb. so between eyefinity and new more demanding games (too far and few in between really) I think we are going to see another jump in standard memory configurations.

and as for Nvidia system its first an HPC component then a video card (maybe? who really know? just reading the white paper) even so look at what they are wanting it to do, run physx, render graphics, and AI at the same time. the standard frame buffer scenario probably doesn't apply it may even need that exorbitant bus to do all that.

Originally Posted by BababooeyHTJ

What percentage of their market is going to you that feature?

The entire market in general, probably nil. But if we're talking Fermi/5970 range ($500), probably a surprising percentage.

We're all enthusiasts here. I'm sure a large number of us take this hobby fairly seriously with the means to somewhat back it up. AMD certainly sees some sort of market.

This is akin to asking why they bother offering SLI as a feature? What percentage of users SLI a pair of 5870 or GTX285?

Originally Posted by alxnet2003

The entire market in general, probably nil. But if we're talking Fermi/5970 range ($500), probably a surprising percentage.

We're all enthusiasts here. I'm sure a large number of us take this hobby fairly seriously with the means to somewhat back it up. AMD certainly sees some sort of market.

This is akin to asking why they bother offering SLI as a feature? What percentage of users SLI a pair of 5870 or GTX285?

Actually that is also a very small percentage.

I was referring to the highend market and I would say that the percentage of people using eyefinity in that market is very, very small. I think the money would be better spent on working on their drivers much like I have said about Physix and 3d vision.

Nvidia is really dropping the ball here.

Originally Posted by darkstar757

Nvidia is really dropping the ball here.

Your insight is amazing.

Fermi is going to be slower and cost more than 5970.