Next Generation Video Cards?

[Canelek]

Any word on when the new shit will be released by Nvidia and ATI?

[miir]

Man, it's been so long that I've actually paid attention to bleeding edge video card hardware that I couldn't even tell you what the fastest card on the market is anymore.

[Canelek]

Found something from a Nvidia site:

[Kluden]

and ATI's is out now. the 5800's. they came out in november/december 09. dx11.

So nothing new from ati until winter of this year, most likely...except of course better availability of the dual gpu card, and the redux card of this gen's chip.

[Aslanna]

As stated above, 26th was indeed the day for nvidia. I hope EVGA has a step-up for the card I just bought 2 months ago. If so I'd probably go with a 470 SuperClocked. $650 for the 480 Hydro Copper FTW. whaaat! Crazy.

http://www.evga.com/products/prodlist.a ... ies+Family

[Canelek]

Yeah, those prices are insane! I doubt EVGA will step up my 9800's. ><

[Aslanna]

Yeah I'm not holding out much hope for being able to upgrade my 260 either. I guess their 'Step Up' program is more limited than I thought. I really don't see that as a selling point for their products like I initially thought.

I'll have to see what the performance is like before I decide if I want to bother or not since I seldom play games on my PC anymore. I might just wait until these have become 'past gen' and like half the price.

[Winnow]

I can't see upgrading my nVidia 285 card any time soon. I do play Aion but my card has zero issues with that at max settings.

I plan on checking out Tera and Blade & Soul when those booby bouncing MMOs are released but can't imagine having any graphics performance issues even with these yet to be released games.

[Canelek]

Yup. No point in doing that for me either. I just don't play PC games that much anymore.

And I'd stick with the 285 as well Winnow! Great card, and it is hard these days to justify upgrading until the price drops substantially.

[Kluden]

at 1920 x 1200...my gtx260 (original one) still does just fine. There's absolutely no reason to upgrade nowadays...cpu, gpu, or otherwise it would seem.

[Aslanna]

at 1920 x 1200...my gtx260 (original one) still does just fine. There's absolutely no reason to upgrade nowadays...cpu, gpu, or otherwise it would seem.

It depends on what you use it for really. For the average person I would say that's the case. My Core 2 6600 was working just fine for me. Only reason I bothered to upgrade was that it died and I didn't have much choice.

However anyone who pays $650 for a graphics card is either dumb or has too much money. Possibly both.

[Kluden]

my comp is for gaming and porn...in either order. e6600 OC'd to 3+...not sure it even needs to be, but it has been for 2 years now with no complaints Agreed though, if it died, I would upgrade to i7 for sure.

[Bubba Grizz]

my comp is for gaming and porn...in either order.

What he said.

[Aslanna]

nvidia already made one of their GF100 cards obsolete.. And for cheaper!

Performance delivers a big win for the GeForce GTX 460 over ATI's Radeon HD 5830 video card, which shares a similar $200~$220 retail price point. Our performance rating considers how effective the 1GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 DirectX-11 video card performs against competing products from both ATI and NVIDIA. Taking all of the collected results into consideration, the reference 1GB GeForce GTX 460 outperformed ATI's Radeon HD 5830 in each and every benchmark test conducted. Further dominating over the Radeon 5830, NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 460 offers PhysX and 3D-Vision functionality, produces less heat, and requires less power at idle. It easily captures the best price to performance ratio for most games tested, especially in BattleForge. At the end of our test gauntlet, the results prove that NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 460 is the best choice at $220... but also a better choice than their own GeForce GTX-465.

http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?o ... &Itemid=72

[Fairweather Pure]

Well, the 460 was a pretty shitty card. I'm glad they replaced it. Nvidia is still behind and playing catch up with Radeaon.

[Aslanna]

460 is the new one!

[Fairweather Pure]

Hmph. I thought the 460 was the previous and the 465 is the latest.

I even have a friend running SLI 460's? I'll have to read his Facebook page again.

[Fairweather Pure]

Man, he has 480's. I was way off!

[Aslanna]

Ah ha, caught you in a lie!