GeForce 6 Announced [Apr 14, 2004, 10:48 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
NVIDIA Launches
GeForce 6 Series - Biggest Performance and Feature Leap in Company History
is the press release with the announcement that accompanies the spate of
previews in this morning's Tech Bits. The release offers technical info as well
as the usual use of phrases like "Industry-leading" and "revolutionary" in
touting what they call "the biggest generation-to-generation performance leap
that we have ever seen with a new GPU." Word is: "Retail graphics boards based
on the GeForce 6800 models are slated for release in the next 45 days." The
release also quotes industry luminaries John Carmack and Tim Sweeney on the new
hardware:
"As DOOM 3 development winds to a close, my work has turned to development of the next generation rendering technology. The NV40 is my platform of choice due to its support of very long fragment programs, generalized floating point blending and filtering, and the extremely high performance," said John Carmack, president and technical director of id SoftwareAnd:
"The NVIDIA GeForce 6 Series is a great leap forward in PC graphics, bringing next-generation Microsoft DirectX 9 rendering performance to new heights while continuing forward with the high-definition floating-point rendering, driver performance, and stability NVIDIA is famous for," stated Tim Sweeney, Founder EPIC Games. "As the first GPU supporting the new Pixel Shader 3.0 programming model, the GeForce 6 Series enables games to use entirely new rendering approaches and obtain higher performance per-pixel lighting, shadowing, and special effects than previously possible."More on this can be found in: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Models of GPUs to Be Offered by Record Number of Partners and Game Creators and Publishers Praise NVIDIA GeForce 6 Series. Thanks Frans.
Only the 6800 Ultra model should chew up the adjacent PCI slot, and only then if the IHV's don't redesign the card from NVIDIA's reference.
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