I am such a lazy jerk you guys. I do a video podcast then I don't make another post for a whole week. Of course there are excuses. Excuses like I have not had time to search forums and sites for news that is worth posting...
So I feel bad. I feel like I am letting you down. So here comes a post with some things in it. Prepare yourself!
Apparently AMD and Nvidia are attempting to kill me by releasing their new cards within two days of each other in June. I have enough work to do when I only have to enter reviews and specs on one new card like the 9800 GX2. According to that article, AMD is launching the HD 4850 on the 16th and then Nvidia is launching the 260 and 280 two days later. Aye carumba!
According to an Asian site that this VR-Zone forum dude translated the GTX 280 will give us twice the perfromance of a 9800 GX2. The GTX 280 will also have 240 shader processors which is more than any Nvidia card except the 9800 GX2 (which has 256 due to its dual GPU/dual PCB design).
NordicHardware has revealed the core and memory speeds of the HD 4850 and 4870. I changed our pages for those cards to match the speeds they reported.
I will also take this opportunity to tease a news story that I hope to post soon. I have notified Evga that another video card manufacturer has stolen one of their trademarks. If any of you can guess which company is infringing on Evga's trademark, or what the trademark is before I post the story, I will be impressed. You can leave a comment with your guess, but if you guess correctly I won't approve your comment until I write the full story.
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they keep putting up BS, just trying to make them look good...
on that asian site, they said the new card will have x2 performance compare to 9800 GX2, I'll say its impossible.. AA/AF no problem in Crysis..that even want to make me laugh more about their intelligence....
I can't think of what trademarks could have been stolen though. I'm pretty sure they trademarked SSC though, and I wouldn't be to surprised if another vendor used it without considering the possibility of it being trademarked.
http://www.evga.com/products/bstock.asp
http://alexrossart.com/wallpapers/superman2_800.jpg
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800 shader processors on the HD 4870 ? I've never even heard of that rumor... if it's true , then according to nordichardware it'll have 480 for graphics and 320 for physics... and if it's true , then ATi has a larger chance . But 25% above the 9800 GTX... while the GTX280 is supposedly twice as fast as a 9800 GX2 ... even though I doubt it'll be twice as fast , it'll still be considerably faster than the HD 4870 then .
However... with sufficient CF support , the RV770 X2 will have a chance against the GTX280 .
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