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Cliff Harding Send message Joined: 18 Aug 99 Posts: 1432 Credit: 110,967,840 RAC: 67 |
This is for all of us that love EVGA GPUs and those that might be inclined to try out one. Unfortunately there is no available date yet, but will keep you informed. http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/evga_geforce_gtx_780_with_6gb_available.html I don't buy computers, I build them!! |
James Sotherden Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 10436 Credit: 110,373,059 RAC: 54 |
It seems that GPU cards are starting to come out at an ever increasing rate. Is it the gamers who need more power faster or Just a marketing gimmic? Im not complaining, that means the high end cards now we be cheaper when I need to upgrade. [/quote] Old James |
HAL9000 Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57 |
It seems that GPU cards are starting to come out at an ever increasing rate. Is it the gamers who need more power faster or Just a marketing gimmic? 4K UHD displays are starting to make their way to market. Which I guess means they need to crank up the power to give the same frame rates with 4 times the pixels. Short term they are probably cranking things up, but then will settle back down as time goes on. SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[ |
Batter Up Send message Joined: 5 May 99 Posts: 1946 Credit: 24,860,347 RAC: 0 |
It seems that GPU cards are starting to come out at an ever increasing rate. Is it the gamers who need more power faster or Just a marketing gimmic?NVIDIA started, about 9 months ago, licensing chips to third parties instead of making them use entire reference cards. So this isn't NVIDIA pumping out these cards but third parties. Things are going to get harder for system builders though as an ASUS card with the same chip may no longer be SLI comparable with an EVGA; we now have proprietary NVIDA cards. The ASUS MARS 760 is a dual GPU that NVIDIA doesn't have a reference design for. This is why I say there will not be a reference 790 from NVIDIA, that will be up to a third party. |
juan BFP Send message Joined: 16 Mar 07 Posts: 9786 Credit: 572,710,851 RAC: 3,799 |
This is why I say there will not be a reference 790 from NVIDIA, that will be up to a third party. Ops, thats sounds not good...They could do the same as ASUS MARS 760 and use some power from the PCIe slot, something not safe for multi GPU hosts. |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65736 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
It seems that GPU cards are starting to come out at an ever increasing rate. Is it the gamers who need more power faster or Just a marketing gimmic?NVIDIA started, about 9 months ago, licensing chips to third parties instead of making them use entire reference cards. So this isn't NVIDIA pumping out these cards but third parties. Things are going to get harder for system builders though as an ASUS card with the same chip may no longer be SLI comparable with an EVGA; we now have proprietary NVIDA cards. The ASUS MARS 760 is a dual GPU that NVIDIA doesn't have a reference design for. This is why I say there will not be a reference 790 from NVIDIA, that will be up to a third party. Non reference design could mean water blocks could become either more expensive or simply non-existent. This is not good. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
Batter Up Send message Joined: 5 May 99 Posts: 1946 Credit: 24,860,347 RAC: 0 |
NVIDIA, at this point in time, isn't doing like Intel and becoming just a chip maker. It has been less than a year since they started licensing just their chips. A bigger concern is drivers; third parties have to write their own drivers for their non standard designs. |
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