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- duggtodeath, on 12/03/2007, -16/+104PS4? Xbox 720?
And all PC gamers have to do is install a new card. - FZero68, on 12/03/2007, -3/+81Can it run Crysis?
- DefaultGen, on 12/03/2007, -2/+73My Commodore 64 has all the RAM i'll ever need :-(
- arunforce, on 12/03/2007, -0/+70"mass production is expected in the first half of 2007."
Huh? I assume they mean 2008. - MasterRex, on 12/03/2007, -1/+62 It'll be the 'world's fastest' for all of three weeks.
- Menoats, on 12/03/2007, -3/+61Only on medium settings.
- Netrilix, on 12/03/2007, -3/+56720... I.E. "Back to where we started... again". Personally, I love the 360, but the name is just too easy to make fun of.
- inactive, on 12/03/2007, -0/+49Breaking: The latest memory is faster than older memory.
- moocow1452, on 12/03/2007, -15/+60But is it enough for Vista?
- Tempest261, on 12/03/2007, -6/+46Not necessarily. There are 8800 GT's out now that are half the cost of the PS3 and Xbox and at least a generation and a half newer. The PS3 and 360 aren't even based on stream-processor technology.
- john2kx, on 12/03/2007, -2/+41Dreamcast 2.
2009.
Believe. - DefaultGen, on 12/03/2007, -7/+44"but, but teh $8000 PCs are needed for gamez!!1"
- jamend, on 12/03/2007, -0/+32The PS3's RSX GPU is a modified nVidia G70 (7800 GTX) at 90 nm. 8800 GTX is the G80, a complete architectural overhaul (DX10, stream procs vs. pixel/vertex shaders) at 80 nm. 8800 GT is G92, a tweaked G80 respun at 65 nm.
- DarkGrim, on 12/03/2007, -26/+56Yeah, A card which is more expensive then both of those.
- scabbers, on 12/03/2007, -2/+27Title is completely inaccurate - it's not "for games consoles".
- rune420, on 12/03/2007, -5/+27Sounds impressive, but then it doesn't say anything about latency.
- rexrgis, on 12/03/2007, -7/+29But you must consider that the 8800 GT was unveiled very recently, while the Xbox 360 has been around for 2 years now, and the PS3, a year.
Considering the brisk tempo at which the technology industry advances, it does seem that, for pure gaming purposes, dedicated consoles are providing better performance for the money compared to their PC counterparts. - peacebyanymeans, on 12/03/2007, -2/+22I'm assuming you're an idiot.
- samssf, on 12/03/2007, -2/+21Um, he didn't say consoles provide better performance. He said consoles provide better performance for the money.
- ganymede2010, on 12/03/2007, -1/+19The exponential growth of technology is staggering. That's why it's not worth buying "top of the line anymore". Because once the next shopping Holiday comes around. The new an improved version of what you recently bought will be available, at a lower price!!
- chrispeters, on 12/03/2007, -1/+17GDDR5 (series five, graphics double-data-rate memory)
Graphics memory. So it's the graphics card that has the memory, not the motherboard. - arunforce, on 12/03/2007, -0/+16At the rate technology is increasing these days, it will be GDDR10 by the time the next console wars begin.
- Azerael, on 12/03/2007, -2/+17Are you the friend of a friend of my cousin's friend's brother who works at NVIDIA and gives me rumors to post all over the internet?
- seraph582, on 12/03/2007, -6/+21INACCURATE - this memory will see light of day as a PC upgrade part *LONG* *LONG* *LONG* before it does as a console part. Consoles *only* get last-gen technology.
- didgital, on 12/03/2007, -9/+22we could probably use it to open microsoft files at a reasonable speed finally
- ChileanGoD, on 12/03/2007, -1/+14Better start saving for those upcoming Nvidia or Ati cards.
- zachshmack, on 12/03/2007, -0/+13ehal256, repeat after me: "Whoosh."
- DeathRay2K, on 12/03/2007, -4/+17Quite the opposite really. More powerful PCs were available even when the consoles came out, and much more powerful graphics cards today are significantly cheaper... I'm not really seeing how that makes consoles better.
- turpenine, on 12/03/2007, -1/+13They have already started planning the hardware spec levels.
- andy17null, on 12/03/2007, -0/+12until the next office, which takes advantage of this sort of advance
- YuriSakazaki, on 12/03/2007, -1/+13Maybe not, but the Sega Genesis DOES have Blast Processing!
- PixelD, on 12/03/2007, -1/+13Oh yeah....I came up with the name GDDR5. Come back when you have something better.
- inactive, on 12/03/2007, -1/+13Yay for textures!
- inactive, on 12/03/2007, -0/+12never was funny, still isn't
- Mononuclear, on 12/03/2007, -4/+15Like the nintendo Wii's name isn't too easy to make fun of? Hey after school do you want to come over to my house and play with my Wii? Note: I do not own any of the mentioned consoles and I think they are all great and all have retarded names.
- Biznarie, on 12/03/2007, -2/+13this is for a video card not for a motherboard, so all thats needed is a new video card.
- tonybadass, on 12/03/2007, -0/+10i would literally sprout a tear.
- l00s3r, on 12/03/2007, -1/+11Or playing Crysis on a console at 0 FPS.
- iruel, on 12/03/2007, -0/+10this guys choice of words in the headline piss me off. no where does it say that this memory was designed "for gaming consoles" sure the next generation of consoles might use it. but the articles only mention of gaming consoles is that this memory is way faster than the current consoles memory. and the only point of that statement is to give people who don't know anything about memory a reference point.
- Rodalli, on 12/03/2007, -0/+9One of the most annoying parts of my job is having to explain to people why they're not downloading a gigabyte/sec on their new gigabit router. That and people who have no idea what their passwords are/were/might ever be.
- cococooky, on 12/03/2007, -1/+10Well I invented the internet.
- Joga5000, on 12/03/2007, -0/+9Exactly. Heck, the 8800 series (including the recent 8800 GT) is STILL using GDDR3. GDDR4 has only shown up in a few recent ATI cards. But this process happens every time a new type of RAM comes out: new type of RAM has the potential to be clocked higher, but it's more expensive and has higher latencies. After a while it comes down in price and gets clocked high enough to overcome the latency disadvantage - everybody's happy. This happens for both video and system RAM (see DDR -> DDR2 and more recently, DDR2 -> DDR3.)
- tasadar24, on 12/03/2007, -0/+9It's all about figuring out what your budget is, what you're looking for performance wise, any specific timetables(games) you want to be running, and watching the manufacturers. I still run an X1800XT from a year and a half ago because I can play Crysis and SupCom, at my preferred resolution(resolution of my monitor, 1680x1050) with pretty respectable framerates and quality. I haven't upgraded yet because nothing earth shattering has hit the graphics card market since the 8800 series came out, and the price and performance aren't worth it for me yet.
Also, although AA makes a game look prettier, the hit that it gives to a graphics card just isn't worth it unless you can run every setting at the highest before turning it on. - Amablue, on 12/03/2007, -0/+8Dugg up for that.
Sega does what Nintendon't. - PixelD, on 12/03/2007, -0/+8Theres is nothing I want more than Sega to jump back into the hardware game. Sadly, its just a pipedream. :: goes to have a 3 way with his Dreamcast and Saturn ::
- Guspaz, on 12/03/2007, -3/+116 gigabits per second is sort of misleading, because that'ts 6gbit per PIN.
GDDR4 is 4 gigabits per pin, or 16 gigabytes (128 gigabit) per second per module. - ukusman, on 12/03/2007, -0/+8Dugg you because it's true. I upgraded my PC a few months ago, it ruled at the time, now it is mid range. Unfortunately, knowing me, I'll fall for it again in a few months.
- Ductapemaster, on 12/03/2007, -0/+7you could have
- PixelD, on 12/03/2007, -0/+7I'm getting me a Nintendo Poo....just hope its not 2 Wii's duct taped together. Oh wait, that just sounds wrong.
- wafflesomd, on 12/03/2007, -6/+13Yay, more great graphics, more ***** games.
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