NV30 will retake the performance crown from ATI by a signifi

[MistaPi]

Renger med at det fanget deres oppmerksomhet :smile:

 

Anyway.. tatt litt ut av sammenheng. Dette er fra et intervju med Creative.

 

What can you tell us about your upcoming NVIDIA product, and please refrain from, it'll be awesome and vague teasers :wink: Will there be a diverse product line and can you specify when the product(s) will be available in retail? Also can you tell us a bit about what price-range your future customers will have to face ?

 

Now that's putting me in a really difficult position because as you know NVIDIA are pretty consistent with their "we don't talk about unreleased product" position but here is what I think I am safe in saying … (bear in mind I have seen specs and simulations not actual hardware). Based on what I've seen NV30 will retake the performance crown from ATI by a significant amount. Obviously I can't comment on clock speed etc. but its fair to say that we should see a significant jump based on the fact that NV30 is on 0.13 and 9700 Pro squeezed every last cycle out of 0.15. With regard to pricing all I can say is you should use previous pricing as a guideline for estimating SRP's. There has always been a price premium associated with having the absolute bleeding edge and in the past process changes have lead to higher development costs and thus higher street prices. Against that we have the recent trend for binning chips by speed and producing a range from a single chip and I would expect that trend to continue. Sorry I can't be more specific but being totally honest there are no final decisions yet and all I can do is use past experience as a guideline.

 

http://www.guru3d.com/interview/creative-092002/