Volgens the Inq zou de 8900gtx een G80 core zijn met 25% meer shaders. Deze shaders zouden dus ook al in de huidige retail 8800 kaarten moeten zitten maar niet geactiveerd zijn.
Zou wel een stunt zijn.
http://uk.theinquirer.net/?article=37610Geforce 8900 GTX has 25 per cent more shaders
Everything is under the curtain. Yeah, curtainBy Fuad Abazovic: woensdag 14 februari 2007, 01:10
NVIDIA managed to hide some stuff in front of our eyes, under a veil, curtain or purda.
If Geforce 8900 turns out to be using the G80 chip, that will mean that the chip had more Shaders all along. Our sources confirm that Geforce 8900 GTX has more shaders.
We know that this will speed up some of the games and definitely in the "scientific" GPGPU calculations. We heard that the card still has the same G80, 90 nanometre core but Nvidia might be veiling some info. We know you cannot clock the G80 more than 630MHz unless you "goto" water cooling. With that you are still topped at 680+MHz.
We heard that the card will be announced just in time to spoil the ATI's fun with R600 launch. Quel surprise, n'est ce pas? µ
Hieronder een interessante post uit het ATI topic van CJ over de drivers:
Op Slashdot.org is het volgende gepost door iemand die werkzaam is bij een van de twee grote IHVs (dus AMD of nVidia):
I am not going to say who I work for, but I will say I work on drivers for one of the big two graphics card vendors.
Driver development for Vista is a nightmare. We are forced to work within rigid and sensitive specifications, wherein violations cause Windows to shut us down or restart the video subsystem entirely. In the past, delivering content to the screen was relatively straight-forward and we were free to operate as we needed to get our job done. Today, it is entirely up to Microsoft and if you dare wander outside their edicts and trigger their damned “tiltbits”, you arfucked. Debugging this system is almost entirely blind so we are forced to play wack-a-mole all day. On the bright side, our driver code is receiving a thorough audit. In the mean time, you guys are getting the product of a rapid hackfast, intended to get something out the door to meet our marketing promises.
When Vista becomes dominant in the mainstream, all of you can expect loads of problems unless Microsoft learn to lighten up. Sure, they want to enforce standards on their platform. We all know Windows sucks largely because of how badly drivers are written, but they are doing it by screwing with us, the hardware vendors. My group knows what the hell we're doing. We would not be one of the top two if we didn't, but Microsoft are making our lives nearly impossible because they do not consider in the least what we need to make good products.
My advice: do not think you can buy either ATI or NVIDIA and expect Vista to work entirely as advertised. Wait a year. Stick with XP or buy a Mac.
Bron:
http://games.slashdot.org...l?sid=222084&cid=17989982
Veel mensen zaten natuurlijk te speculeren bij welke IHV deze persoon dan werkte. Aan de tekst te zien lijkt het om nVidia te gaan. Drivers worden imers omschreven als een 'hackfest, intended to get something out the door to meet our marketing promises'.
Maar om het feest helemaal compleet te maken, reageert Terry Makedon, aka Catalyst Maker, waarin hij bevestigd dat het niemand is vanuit AMD.
Hi Terry Makedon here and I am the Manager of Software Product Management at AMD (former ATI). I will assume you don't work for AMD since your viewpoints are absolutely contradictory to our position on the topic of Vista. Here at AMD we don't believe driver development for Vista is a nightmare. In fact I have polled many Software Engineers and Architects within AMD and they thought developing Vista drivers was quite a satisfying experience. Sure it's a new driver model and a great amount of code had to be written but it's not inherently more difficult to write or validate than the XP driver was. Granted, if you start late and don't have adequate amount of time to plan, execute, and validate then everything will seem relatively difficult and the resulting quality will suffer. This is true for any software development project. At AMD we feel that we started the project early enough and planned for it thoroughly and in fact our software engineers delivered a solid driver that made the marketing promises very easy to fulfill. On top of that it is incorrect to assume that quality can be built into any software product in a hurry after the first release. In many cases, the initial design, if rushed, would result in an inherently unstable pieces of software that cannot be fixed by solely debugging after the fact. At least not in a hurry. In such cases, it would take a major redesign to raise the quality up to an acceptable level. My advice: I strongly encourage everyone to upgrade to Vista, and with Catalyst you can expect a great experience and easy upgrade. Worldwide press have praised us on the AERO experience we help deliver, the top notch stability and gaming performance that is very close and often surpasses XP performance. In fact Rahul Sood (president and CEO of VoodooPC) wrote this in his blog today "One could probably assume that ATI's tight support for Vista may have a significant market ripple somewhere down the line - but that's just a guess." Source:
http://www.rahulsood.com/...u-better-than-nvidia.html [rahulsood.com]
Bron:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=222084&cid=18003178
AMD komt heel erg zelfverzekerd over. Ik heb het idee dat de R600 Vista drivers een stuk volwassener zijn dan die de G80 drivers van nVidia bij de launch. Anders zet je jezelf wel enorm voor schut door zoiets te posten. En Terry Makedon kennende, post hij zoiets niets zonder ergens heel erg zeker van te zijn.
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