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Darkhound: ATI and NVIDIA are both on the verge of announcing new high end cards, the R420 and the NV40. Based on what I've seen so far, I would expect the R420 to be available sometime next month, and the NV40 to follow shortly after.
Rumoured specs
R420
0.13 micron process low-k
160M transistors
~500MHz core clock
~1000Mhz memory clock
256-bit memory interface
Two versions : 256MB GDDR3 or 256MB DDR-I
12 pipelines
6 vertex engines
2x pixel fill rate and vertex of R350
AGP 8X
VGA, DVI and VIVO ready
Supports DirectX 9.0b
NV40
0.13 micron process
205-210M transistors (up from 175M)
~550-600MHz core clock
~1000-1200Mhz memory clock
256-bit memory interface
Two versions : NV40 ??? and NV40 Ultra 256MB GDDR3
16 pipelines
AGP 8X
VGA, DVI and VIVO ready
Supports DirectX 9.0c
Both companies are offering two versions, NVIDIA's cards are being quoted at $299 (NV40) and $499 (NV40 Ultra), so expect ATI's competing products to be similary priced unless there is a significant performance advantage from one manufacturer over the other.
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tacos4me: Whilst the (rumoured) specs for both of these cards (R420/NV40) is all over the place at present, it appears that NVIDIA could have the avantage. All should be revealed within the next month.
These are the latest NV40 specs
NV40 revision A2 clocked at 475MHz core and 1.2GHz memory (GDDR-3)
16 pipelines - 3DMark2001 single-texture fillrate of 7,010 MPixels/sec and multi-texture fillrate of 7,234 MPixels/sec
Pixel shader performance ranges from 2.5X to 5X over GeForce FX 5950 Ultra
Antialiasing in screenshots is 4X RGMS (Rotated Grid Multi-Sampling)
Max anisotropic filtering at 8X with tested driver, but might see 16X
Gameplay performance 2.5X to 3X faster than GeForce FX 5950 Ultra using high resolutions with AA and AF
Image quality is "far far better"
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