NVIDIA just rudely interrupted our RADEON 6990 testing with this video, which promises the launch of a new flagship GeForce card in a few days.
A few weeks ago AMD claimed the ‘fastest video card in the world’ crown with its RADEON HD 6990 dual GPU monster. We have been putting a couple of those cards through their paces in preparation for next issue of Atomic, but let us just say that their claims are currently 100% true. It is a power sucking, heat pumping behemoth of a graphics card, but this writer wants one oh so badly for his home rig.
The 6990 grabbed the fastest spot from its predecessor, the RADEON HD 5970. It is a spot in the market that only AMD has been playing in, NVIDIA’s focus has been single GPU and getting its Fermi family of DX11 hardware up to scratch. But maybe, just maybe, it has a trick up its sleeve now that the GeForce GTX 580 has eradicated a lot of the heat, power draw and noise issues that were leveled at the GTX 480.
We say this because something is about to happen, or so this video wants us to believe. At 6am PDT (Pacific Daylight Time), which translates to midnight Thursday Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time, NVIDIA is going to announce its ‘next generation’ flagship graphics card. We are sworn to secrecy on what we do know, but don’t expect a new architecture, expect an interesting spin on the current one.
Now before we say to much and incur the wrath of the NDA police, the ‘Next Gen GeForce’ teaser video.
Just a little tip though NVIDIA - considering that Crysis 2 doesn’t actually have DX11 support patched in yet, it probably isn’t the best game to be using as a background when announcing one’s ‘Next Generation’ hardware.
Issue: 137 | June, 2012