Will the $599 Price Milestone for Graphics Cards be Hit?

Dom · May 6, 2004, 05:28 PM

Some makers of add-in graphics cards for PCs are considering the launch of ultra high-end flavour of the recently unveiled NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra graphics processor. But the the pricing may achieve unbelievable $599 per unit, an unprecedented cost for consumer graphics cards.

GeForce 6 Lineup Forming Up

The GeForce 6-series of graphics processors will be available across entry-level, mainstream, performance-mainstream, high-end and, apparently, so-called ultra high-end graphics cards. The new series of NVIDIA’s graphics processors is the company’s second generation lineup of DirectX 9.0-compatible offerings that greatly leverage the feature-set of NVIDIA GeForce FX graphics chips and brings important additional caps like Shader Model 3.0 as well as great performance improvements over the previous generation hardware.

So far NVIDIA has unveiled only a $499 offering called the GeForce 6800 Ultra that is based on a 400MHz chip that integrates 16-pixel pipelines, 6 vertex pipelines as well as equipped with 256MB of GDDR3 memory at 1100MHz. It is now nearly official that the graphics cards priced at $399 and $299 powered by similar graphics processor in the plans.

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Judas · May 6, 2004, 05:36 PM

won't be a milestone....

.... those prices have been hit before.... just they are going up again

j2t · May 6, 2004, 07:57 PM

I'm sorry, thats just crazy. I could build a whole pc for that price.

Matth · May 6, 2004, 09:04 PM

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Originally posted by j2t
I'm sorry, thats just crazy. I could build a whole pc for that price.

I agree! - If a game needs hyper-realism to be interesting, then it isn't a good game .... I'm off to find a remake of ELITE - original wireframe version

If they wrote that today, they would no doubt be compelled to texture the ships (I bag star trek hull plating!), and put surface detail on the planets.

And take a look at some of the old assembly exhibits, they were doing bump mapping in software, on processors that were feeble compared to today's.

Souped-up hardware is being used to cover for lousy code!

krazy1 · May 6, 2004, 09:17 PM

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Originally posted by j2t
I'm sorry, thats just crazy. I could build a whole pc for that price.

Yep and there is NO reason to have to have the top of the line card the day/month it comes out. Just crazy........

May 6, 2004, 05:28 PM	#1
Dom DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 12,940 Rep Power: 0	Will the $599 Price Milestone for Graphics Cards be Hit? Some makers of add-in graphics cards for PCs are considering the launch of ultra high-end flavour of the recently unveiled NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra graphics processor. But the the pricing may achieve unbelievable $599 per unit, an unprecedented cost for consumer graphics cards. GeForce 6 Lineup Forming Up The GeForce 6-series of graphics processors will be available across entry-level, mainstream, performance-mainstream, high-end and, apparently, so-called ultra high-end graphics cards. The new series of NVIDIA’s graphics processors is the company’s second generation lineup of DirectX 9.0-compatible offerings that greatly leverage the feature-set of NVIDIA GeForce FX graphics chips and brings important additional caps like Shader Model 3.0 as well as great performance improvements over the previous generation hardware. So far NVIDIA has unveiled only a $499 offering called the GeForce 6800 Ultra that is based on a 400MHz chip that integrates 16-pixel pipelines, 6 vertex pipelines as well as equipped with 256MB of GDDR3 memory at 1100MHz. It is now nearly official that the graphics cards priced at $399 and $299 powered by similar graphics processor in the plans. Read More... ______________________ Source: X-BitLabs

May 6, 2004, 07:57 PM	#3
j2t DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: May 2004 Location: Orlando, FL Posts: 184 Rep Power: 0	I'm sorry, thats just crazy. I could build a whole pc for that price.