DX10 nVidia Card - Can it handle FSX?

[Ashton Lawson]

You've probably all heard of the R600 and G80 graphics cards from ATi and nVidia, well I just found an article on nVidia's G80, kind of an old article, but the specs at the bottom make me cry.

http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=3177


For those of u who don't understand any of the specs at the bottom, its d@m goooooooooooooooooooooooood.....  To me.  To u, i dunno.

[vololiberista]

You've probably all heard of the R600 and G80 graphics cards from ATi and nVidia, well I just found an article on nVidia's G80, kind of an old article, but the specs at the bottom make me cry.

http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=3177


For those of u who don't understand any of the specs at the bottom, its d@m goooooooooooooooooooooooood.....  To me.  To u, i dunno.

It would seem to be a little more powerful than my 440!!
Vololiberista

[Bindoe]

Rofl. Some todays cards have faster memory I'd expect the top and cards to have 2.2ghz GDDR4, then later on with the 8950 series maybe like 2.6ghz GDDR4.

Also a DX10 card will easily max out fsX, and a thirst gen DX10 card will easily max it out with mods I doubt them specs are anything real, probably what they were aiming for...

[ashaman]

It would seem to be a little more powerful than my 440!!
Vololiberista

Just a mite faster of my spanking new 6600gt, after all. :-/

[Katahu]

Striker, you may see your system as damn gooooooood. But to us, that MX 440 can't even support DX9.

[Bindoe]

Striker, you may see your system as damn gooooooood. But to us, that MX 440 can't even support DX9.

I think he means:

65nm
64 Shader pipelines (Vec4+Scalar)
32 TMU's
32 ROPs
128 Shader Operations per Cycle
800MHz Core
102.4 billion shader ops/sec
512GFLOPs for the shaders
2 Billion triangles/sec
25.6 Gpixels/Gtexels/sec
256-bit 512MB 1.8GHz GDDR4 Memory
57.6 GB/sec Bandwidth (at 1.8GHz)
WGF2.0 Unified Shader

I expect ATI to out do Nvidia this time, as ATI already has experiance with the Xbox360.

[vololiberista]

Striker, you may see your system as damn gooooooood. But to us, that MX 440 can't even support DX9.

My MX 440 runs DX9 perfectly well. It's just a question of upgrading the drivers for XP.
Vololiberista

[Bindoe]

My MX 440 runs DX9 perfectly well. It's just a question of upgrading the drivers for XP.
Vololiberista

Geforce 4s don't support shaders 2 among other things so they aren't fully DX9. All you're loosing is some effects though

[Ashton Lawson]

Ah, thats what ur talking about.  No no, when i said at the bottom, i meant the bottom of the article I found.  Not my sig (otherwise i would've said my sig).

[Ashton Lawson]

Also, Bindoe, nVidia hav expierience with the PlayStation 3, which is much better...  (no offence to MS and their XBox 360)

I think nVidia r gonna pull off DX10 better.  (Besides, SLi is better than Crossfire...)

[Bindoe]

[quote]Also, Bindoe, nVidia hav expierience with the PlayStation 3, which is much better...

[Ashton Lawson]

Not to be sarcastic, but how many gpus can ATi support, cuz i know that nvidia can support 4.  (heard a rumor that they might go up another knotch, maybe six )

Plus the arcitecture is better (dunno how, just read a review).

[Bindoe]

ATI supports 2, Nvidia supports, like 8 or something with work stations

But seriously, who buys 4 video cards? Kids with rich parents

As for archetecture, I don't know. The ATI 9800 can run new games on medium settings, while the Geforce
fx5900 cannot even run them. Why? Because the fx series have terrible pixel shading performance.

The X8x0 series is OK. It has higher clocks than geforce 6 but dosn't always perform faster.

The X1k high end series gets higher performance than the Nvidia counterpart, even with less pixel pipelines, along with ultra threaded shaders.

Anyway, Crossfire X1950XTX get 67fps with FEAR maxed out 4x AA and 16x AF. What more can someone want?

[Ashton Lawson]

Hmm, 100 fps with graphics maxed out with 16x antialiasing?

And nVidia only supports 4 at the moment (key phrase: at the moment)

[Bindoe]

Hmm, 100 fps with graphics maxed out with 16x antialiasing?

And nVidia only supports 4 at the moment (key phrase: at the moment)

4x AA with 16x AF. AA = Anti Aliasing. AF = Anisotopic filtering.

The 8 core thing is about two Quaddro plex's in SLI