Nvidia GF100

[maddafinga]

Okay so now the question I have is if you have a video card that does have a DisplayPort output can you avoid the TripleHead2Go device and still get the same function?

These new ati cards allow you to plug several monitors into them without anything extra.  I only have one good monitor though, so I don't mess with it, but all those ports are just there, staring at me....

[Skuzzy]

Okay so now the question I have is if you have a video card that does have a DisplayPort output can you avoid the TripleHead2Go device and still get the same function?

Essentially, yes.  It will depend on the video card hardware and drivers.  ATI's EyeInfinity support does exactly that.  They currently support 6 monitors (I think they are moving to 9, if they have not already done so) connected at one and they appear as one monitor.  They also allow various configurations of the monitors.  2x3,3x2,1x6,6x1 and possibly others.

ATI really caught NVidia napping on this feature.

[Krusty]

Heck it's been in pop culture (movies, cartoons, comics) and even video games (Half-Life 2) for quite some time now! It's about time the software/hardware caught up to let us have 9 monitors functioning as one!!

 



(*now if only the monitor prices would catch up -- I mean drop -- so that we could do this without a second mortgage!)

[Skuzzy]

DisplayPort has been slow to be accepted as it adds costs to the video card and the monitors, over a VGA/DVI port.  You want monitor prices to drop, yet add new features?  Ok. See, that is one reason why it has been slow to be accepted as a standard.  No one wants to pay for the feature.  It does add a network controller to the video card and monitor as well.

DisplayPort will not work with regular monitors either.  It requires a monitor which is not dependent on scan lines (LCD, Plasma, CMOS, OLED...).  The only way a scan-line based monitor could work is if an internal decoder was added to decode the data packets back into scan lines for the display, thus adding more costs.

Quite frankly, the whole HDMI thing should have never happened.  It was a very, very poor decision to implement HD content using scan-line technology.  How many CRT based HD televisions do you see around these days?

[Krusty]

You want monitor prices to drop, yet add new features?  [...] No one wants to pay for the feature.

I know, I know (*sheepish look*)

From the consumer perspective, I'm just thinking wishfully.

[Kazaa]

The sooner OLED displays hit the market the better.

Eyefinity resolutions on a single, curved monitor = win.

[Chalenge]

OLEDs are already out but $2700 for an 11" screen?

[Skuzzy]

And the beat goes on.....

Latest rumblings have the 480GTX card outperforming the stock ATI5870 card by 5 to 10% and costing $120 U.S. more and sucking down 300W of power.

[Reschke]

Also I have read that it is going to be an extremely low production run of around 9000 units because they had a major problem with the chip wafers...at least that is what I read over on www.simhq.com.

http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/2960029/Nvidia_GTX480_Whoops_Rumor.html#Post2960029

which points to this article...
http://www.semiaccurate.com/2010/02/17/nvidias-fermigtx480-broken-and-unfixable/

[Kazaa]

Benchmarks are in.

Price of the 5850 went back up £20.

http://hardware-infos.com/news.php?news=3476

[Skuzzy]

The production numbers are now at 5,000 units worldwide for both the 480 and 470.

[Pudgie]

I think that Little Red Riding Hood is about to slay the Jolly Green Giant if she puts out another bowl of some good red porridge to best the next bowl of green pea soup.


 

[skribetm]

The XFX GeForce GTX 480 comes with the usual feature set of 1536 MB of GDDR5 memory, 480 CUDA cores, and a broad feature set that includes support for DirectX 11, CUDA, PhysX, 3D Vision Surround, and 3-way SLI. The GeForce GTX 470 retains this feature set, albeit with 448 CUDA cores, and 1280 MB of GDDR5 memory. The two will be released on the 26th of March.

[Boozeman]

I think that Little Red Riding Hood is about to slay the Jolly Green Giant if she puts out another bowl of some good red porridge to best the next bowl of green pea soup.


 

Actually, if the performance rumors on the GTX480 are true, ATI only has to release a "HD5890" with 1 GHz GPU clock and 2 GB of RAM to get on par with the GTX480 or maybe even beat it performce wise. Considering the tiny amouts of 480 cards available, ATI should have no problems to handpick similar numbers of the finest Cypress dies and steal the show from NV once again.     

[Skuzzy]

These dies are exhibiting an abnormal amount of transistor leakage, which is why the power requirements are so high.  I would not touch one with a 10 foot pole.  Make sure you get a really good warranty if you decide to get one of these cards.  The lifespan is going to be suspect.

When you have yeilds in the 7% area, that tells you the design has problems.  It is not just the process at that low of a figure, regardless of how NVidia's marketing would cover it.

You think NVidia would have learned after eating all those other dies for the same problems.  My confidence in NVidia's ability to turn out a quality product is eroding.