EggXpert

Hey Gang,

You voted for it & you got it!  We’re going to be interviewing nVIDIA real soon & we’d like to know what questions YOU would ask if you had the chance. Let’s hear your voice on this, so that we can be sure to ask the questions you care about.  If it goes well, this could be an ongoing thing with interviews with various manufacturers. So, if this topic strikes your fancy, take a minute to send us a question to ask nVIDIA on the community’s behalf.

Keep in mind that they can’t talk about products that have yet to be released, but they would be happy to talk about the underlying technology. For example, they would be able to discuss Hybrid SLI technology, just not specific, unreleased products.

Okay, let’s hear from you because we've only got about a week to compile your questions!

-ningy-

UPDATE:   Part I or the NVIDIA interview is in, and you can read it here! 

EDIT: and here's Part II

8800 needs a client for Stanford's Folding at Home Project to shut up the ATI fanboys

More Linux Drivers? (thanks for better Linux support than ATI btw
 

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I fold for my Grandmothers, my cousin Mike, Uncles Bob and Carl, Aunt Barb, my wife's Grandmother, Aunts Linnea and Alma and Uncle Myrel who all died from Cancer and my dad who has survived

Q.  When will the Nforce/GeForce drivers be a little better then what they are for Vista 64bit ?

Q. Why is the 8800GTS 640MB slower then the 8800GTS 512?

 Q.  NVIDIA Hybrid Boost is only showing 2 cards the  GeForce 8500 GT
GeForce 8400 GS, why not the 8800GTX/GTS/GT? Or even the 8600GT?

Now tell them I want a 9800GTX and I will not harm (Fluffy) the  kitten.

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I love this idea.

I'm curious to know what they have in R&D. Whats going to be the next gen thing? Are they going to move away from DVI to something even better? Each generation seems to be almost twice as fast as the last, are they eggxpecting this to continue? Are they going to get in bed more with Intel now that ATI is owned by AMD?

I can't wait for this interview
 

Q: Are you going to buy AMD ?

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When are is NVIDIA going to switch to 512-Bit interfaces for their GPUs, when are they going to switch to GDDR4, or are they waiting for GDDR5? When will NVIDIA try catching up to ATi when it comes to video and movie rendering and quality?

Like Root said, what's the next generation of GPU's gonna have, more specifically what about the 9 Generation of NVIDIA GPUs (Second Generation DX10 GPUs, will they have better performance in DX10 games and applications)? Anything new? Hopefully more performance, especially in DX10? Are next generation GPU's gonna be able to actually play DX10 games with DX10 enabled?

And I've got many, many more questions for ya, NVIDIA...

Respectfully,

PROACEX1 

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What is the outlook for this summer's GPU releases? What do we have to look forward to this summer as far as premium GPU releases?

As to the question above "Why is 640MB GTS slower than 512MB GTS?" the answer is that 640MB GTS was made with a G80 GPU, and the 512 MB GTS was made with a G92 (faster!) GPU.

Yep, keep it coming guys. BTW, nVidia is pretty excited about receiving the summary of your questions, and I quote them in saying, "we'll provide you w/ some good stuff."   

CheapAsianGamerGuy:

As to the question above "Why is 640MB GTS slower than 512MB GTS?" the answer is that 640MB GTS was made with a G80 GPU, and the 512 MB GTS was made with a G92 (faster!) GPU.

thanks CAGG.

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Oh, and here is another question for NVIDIA, for hardcore performance enthusiasts:

ATi has released Quad-Crossfire, and you can get it rather cheap (4 HD3870's or 4 HD3850's aren't that much money), is there going to be an answer to this from the NVIDIA front (Like Triple or Quad SLi compatible 9800GT's or 9800GTS's)? The current 8800GT and 8800GTS (Including the G92 version) only have one SLi connector, meaning they can't do Triple-SLi or Quad-SLi, and they're the cheapest, relatively fast GPU's NVIDIA has...

You have to get pricey 8800GTX's or 8800ULTRA's to be able to get Triple-SLi or Quad-SLi (Only with a motherboard which supports it on the first, and Quad-SLi only works with 7950GX2's or a jury-rigged 8800GTX/ULTRA setup, so Quad-SLi is essentially missing from NVIDIA's 8 Generation anyhow) (The 9800GX2 will be the answer to the Quad-SLi issue, but it still isn't very cheaper compared to the ATi solution)...

So, when will we see a solution to this problem? Or will we even see a solution?

@Tracer76's post above: ROFLMAO...Fluffy!!!

Respectfully,

PROACEX1

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By Mazer Rackham: "Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer Intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes."

Why are you still making gpus with freaking 64bit memory interface?

When are you going to make some drivers for your cards so I (and others) can play crimson skies again? LMAO

Tracer76:

Q.  When will the Nforce/GeForce drivers be a little better then what they are for Vista 64bit ?

Q. Why is the 8800GTS 640MB slower then the 8800GTS 512?

GeForce 8800 GTS	500	1200	800	640MB or 320MB	320-bit	64	24
GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB3	650	1625	970	512MB	256-bit	64	41.6

 Q.  NVIDIA Hybrid Boost is only showing 2 cards the  GeForce 8500 GT
GeForce 8400 GS, why not the 8800GTX/GTS/GT? Or even the 8600GT?

Now tell them I want a 9800GTX and I will not harm (Fluffy) the  kitten.

Too bad the Venny's were already handed out Tracer!

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sj1dog:

Tracer76:

Q.  When will the Nforce/GeForce drivers be a little better then what they are for Vista 64bit ?

Q. Why is the 8800GTS 640MB slower then the 8800GTS 512?

GeForce 8800 GTS	500	1200	800	640MB or 320MB	320-bit	64	24
GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB3	650	1625	970	512MB	256-bit	64	41.6

 Q.  NVIDIA Hybrid Boost is only showing 2 cards the  GeForce 8500 GT
GeForce 8400 GS, why not the 8800GTX/GTS/GT? Or even the 8600GT?

Now tell them I want a 9800GTX and I will not harm (Fluffy) the  kitten.

Too bad the Venny's were already handed out Tracer!

Thanks but I still have Fluffy.

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No product details are necessary, but what does the NVidia GPU and Chipset release roadmap look like for the summer of 2008?

What are the future plans for Tri and Quad SLI?

Ask them if they are going to allow open source for their Linux driver support.  Since there are apparently some issues with them having restricted drivers and they not always working for various hardware..?  Just a thought.  [;D]

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 Okay, but as a warning, this is going to be a bit of a read.

Question:

What's up with your naming scheme these days, and what are your naming scheme plans for the future?

Explaination:

With the GeForce 7 series, we had the 7600 GS and 7600 GT. Where was the plain 7600? Why name things that way? With the GeForce 8 series, it gets more screwed up. There are NO "normal" cards. Every thing in the low segment seems to end in GS (or LE). The 8600 ends in GT and GTS. Most people think GT means good (since it used to), but this is not so. The 8600 GTS is alright, but the 8600 series has a bad reputation now since the 8600 GT sucks compard to what you'd think (and is no better than the 7600 GT). The 8800 series is WAY OUT OF WACK. There was the 8800 GTS and 8800GTX. Where's the 8800 original? Later, a GT comes out and almost beats a GTX and stomps both GTSs. But GT is "less than" GTS seemingly, but it's better? Then, another GTS comes out and is better than the other GTS? On top of all this, cards are being released in the 9000 range of numbers and they are NOT next generation GPUs. They are Geforce 8 class GPUs with minor adjustments. It looks like the 9800GTX will be the "real" next GPU, but then you'll have 9000 cards when half will be 8000 cards? It only looks to get more messed up. Please, I bet PR is having fun with this, but fix your naming sceme. It's confusing. ATi is hardly better, but it's not as bad and that's another story. Here's an example. With the 8800, if you'd of named the 8800GTS just an 8800 (vanilla), and the 8800GTX an 8800GT (and the Ultra an Ultra, it's fine), when the later 8800GT came out, you could have called it a 9800 (vanilla). It beats the 8800 vanilla, but is slight beat by the 8800GT. This would had been fine since a lesser GT is expected to beat a higher vanilla. Then, the G92 8800GTS could have been called a 8900GT. The 9800GX2 could then be called a 8900GX2, but since you opted to call it a 9800GX2 instead on an 8800GX2, I give up. Really though, whats the reasons behind this? Are their hardware technicallitys that just require this, or is this all PR doing? You had it right, almost picture perfect, with the 6 series. You had the 6200, and then the 6200LE edition. You had the 6600 regular, and the stronger 6600GT. You had the 6800 regular, and the 6800GT and Ultra. Things were a bit wierd with the 6800GS, but that was a first and only mistake in the 6 series. There were other 6 series, but that's the gist of it.

If there is to be a ##00 ANYTHING, it should be the vanilla (no suffixes) model first, and then make stronger or weaker models. Don't make a 9500 GT if there is no 9500, and don't make a 9700 GT and a 9700 GTS if there is no 9700. For low end (#200, #300, #400), LE would be okay for OEM or weaker models, and for midrange, a vanilla and GT version would be better. For the high end, go with a vanilla model (9800), and the stronger models can go up (i.e., first GT, then GTX or preferably Ultra [beyond that, no, becuase you'd hardly need 4 plus tiers of the same GPU]). The 6 series was the best, "naming-wise" you have done, and would like to see it return to that. I have yet to but any ATi video card (not really biased) and think nVidia's hardware is usually the best (at least in my cases your hardware seemed the best), but your naming scemes are way beyond ridiculous at this point, especially for the casual Joe, and now enthusiasts are being thrown astray by it too, buying hardware they think sounds good but is bad. One generation it's one naming scheme, the next it's another. It was bad enough when at one point, one suffix for an nVidia card might have meant is was good, but for ATi that same suffix might mean the opposite, but now that confusion is appearing within this one company's seperate generations. It's confusing to no ends, and it's getting worse. What are the reasons for it, and what is the future of it?

Sorry for the rant, and thanks Egg and nVidia for the oppurtunity...
 

Bobman101:

 Okay, but as a warning, this is going to be a bit of a read.

Question:

What's up with your naming scheme these days, and what are your naming scheme plans for the future?

 definitely not copying the whole quote

Nice question...also, what's after Geforce 9, 10? So we'll have like 10800GTX? Also, this is more of a question for all GPU producers, is there going to be multicored GPU, which should have better scaling that crossfire/SLI

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I’d really like to know when they are going to release drivers and/or a BIOS update to fix that evil nvlddmkm has stopped responding and has closed after intense gaming.

So really:

When do you plan to fix the dreaded nvlddmkm has stop responding and has closed error in Windows Vista?

SHadesisdabomb:

I would like to know when the plan on releasing the 9800GTX and if they will provide for support for linux

The final estimated date is March 11, 2008 :)

diamondjoker5:

Do you plan on integrating sli technology onto motherboard w/ intel chipsets with a brand new spankin license?

I'm with you on this one... I would really like to see some of these nice x38 and x48 intel motherboards with support from such a great graphics company. Do you think you would or would not benefit from showing a business partnership with intel in any way over what amd and ati have shown? To say the least.. would you ever sell any rights to intel for just a couple enthusiast motherboards?

My bad .. the purpose of this was incorporating SLI technology into intel boards.. sorry.. 

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