y

August 27, 2009 at 11:27pm

It's great that the graphics power will be many times faster...however, we all know graphic card sales are really driven by gamers (aside from graphic artists and science applications). The fear of piracy have driven game developers to the console side, leaving the PC with ports that don't require too much processing power. The last game that required a powerful GPU was Crysis (late 2007), it's been two years, and we're still waiting for a 2009 game that'll really cripple the average graphics card. (maybe Rage?)

Unless something changes in the game developer's side, there's going to be a decrease in growth (and need) for a more powerful GPU in the future.

So far i've playing Wolfenstein, the Witcher, the Batman demo, and my average C2Duo GTX285 rig is barely breaking a sweat at 1920x1200 with AA.

quickone

August 27, 2009 at 9:04pm

 Even if they made leaps and bounds in efficientcy, 570% would take some impressive cooling.  If the CPU does go 3X and the gpu is 570X one would not need to run their heater in the winter.  It would take some impressive breakthroughs to reach that level of performance increases, different tech base all together.  

 

~~The difference between insanity and genius is merely succes~~

mesiah

August 27, 2009 at 8:43pm

I can confirm this statement. I used my time machine that I got from some guy who showed up in my basement a few weeks ago to check this story out. And sure enough, in 2015 nvidia debuts the SLIx100 chipset, Which features up to 100 x32 lanes for use in a SLI configuration. They expect graphics card sales to skyrocket with hard core gamers trying to fill all 100 slots with high end graphics cards.

DBsantos77

August 27, 2009 at 4:07pm

Lol probably put 570x instead of 57x, this is not very practical...

chaosdsm

August 27, 2009 at 3:41pm

If that were true, then in 6 years, one would be able to play Crysis on Very High quality setting @ 2560x1600 with AA & AF maxed & triple digit frame rates on a single low end card!!! 

I don't see it happening, not even 50x.  To accomplish the task of a 570x increase would take a doubling of GPU power every 8 months for the next 6 years.   At that rate, they would far outpace programmers ability to utilize such power. 

I'll believe it in 6 years when I'm running one of those cards in my PC & not a moment sooner...

jcollins

August 27, 2009 at 3:25pm

I think he's full of it.  I don't think there's anything in the current progression benchmarkwise to indicate that we're trending anywhere near a 570x increase in 6 years on the high end.    Maybe he's thinking of comparing the worst bottom line GPU now vs the top of the line in 6 years...

Wildebeast

August 27, 2009 at 3:18pm

Awesome... so, in the future, a "standard performance gaming" config of graphics cards won't be $600-1500, right??

I'll believe it, when I see it.

I'll enjoy it, if/when it happens, and be a little sad if it doesn't.

nekollx

August 27, 2009 at 2:46pm

 of couse it will play Crysis in 6 years, that's a given but will it play Crysis 4 Super HD HT-Enhanced Blue-Ray Edition?

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