70.
I'm more likely to believe that the G92 is a more perfected 8800 series card... it's like nVidia couldn't quite get their R&D up to speed or on the ball for anything, just listening to the marketers bark down their shirts to pump out a new card for the consumers and amaze the EXTREME GAMER as well as the business like they usually would because everyone has their faith in nVidia while the fire they get from ATI and their fanbase continues to exceed this expectation. The 8800 is amazing, but flawed... I mean I think about it, and simplistically, they broke the video card tradition.
8MB... 16 MB... 32... 64, 128, 256, 512... ... 768? Why the hell would you go half way on something like this? Was it technology? I doubt it... the way technology has been moving, I wouldn't be surprised if it was actually 3 times higher than that-- and I think it's in part that most gamers and technology buffs are dismally pessimistic on the opportunities of change and gratifying improvements we could endure while not being disappointed what we bought goes obsolete within the next 36 hours of purchasing... even I have those fears, and I've been under that fear for some time now, by God I've still got an XP processor running, I've never quite made that jump past Athlon 64's or Intel Core 2 Duo, more less the Core Duo series at all.
In all faith, I believe these 'rumor' statistics but I disbelieve them at the same time... nVidia has been keeping a tight lip only to revel some things that are confirmed and I'll bet their support base is being overpowered by people e-mailing them asking for direct stats of the product overview when the R&D team there is probably popping meth-amphetamines just to keep themselves in line with what nVidia is trying to pull and finally perfect an 8800 lineage graphics card, put some new features in, quite more than possibly having discovered and created newer, better features and implementations into the card making this beast seem more of a reality.
Consider the eggheads from the 1940's who predicted so much of our future now with hauntingly pinpoint accuracy. Post-war visionaries in the past 6 decades had alot of speculation that was overlooked too, and though this seems quite overkill to defend the statement of the simple aspect of just this video card, it still goes into comparison when guys like George Orwell who wrote "Politics and the English Language," only to foretell the very flaws of political correctness we face and must pay for now, or even Vannevar Bush who wrote, "As We May Think," which included the mention of hypertext, small cameras and the rise of the internet (before it was even called the internet, but as a stream of information easily accessible to anyone, everyone and anywhere) just so we could have the leisure and spare time to do what we're doing now and for me to write what I'm writiing now.
The speculation of this graphics card ties in with a much deeper history of things I've seemed to patch together in my head but I won't bore any of you longer than you should be now if you've managed to read this any farther than what I've wrote now. Fact is, the G92 is just an 8800 that'll finally reach the potential it should have, and that was past the 1GB memory bank mark as well as the incorporation of 65mm as well as some more bells and whistles nVidia will pull off I'm sure in means to amaze the world once again and to push the boundaries of what seemed like could have been a plateau effect towards gaming/graphics technology... but it can only get better I suppose.
Optimistically, I believe this new card will be of something worth the hassle to go through all this underground controversy of "This card will rock!" "No! This card will suck" But we'll see... *sigh* I sure do miss the days when 3DFX was around...
[Posted by: Aardcore | Date: 10/06/07 10:02:23 AM]
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