Woot! Definitely going to get me one of these puppies then!
Massive GTX 480/470 collection thread here:
http://www.techpowerup.com/...
Has lots of benchmark comparisons and pictures.
And this is still with early drivers for Fermi. Can't wait to see how it improves in the coming months, just like ATI's drivers boosted performance around 15% a few months later f...
I smell copyright battle:
http://www.seefront.com/see...
http://www.cebit.de/78989
It's cause your not realizing what's being rendered here. Look at the vast amount of vegetation. The grass isn't just textured vertical polygon planes scattered about. It's millions of dynamic strands of grass, along with other vegetation. Then there's the tessellation of the mountains, trees, dinosaurs that allows for a level of detail never before possible in real-time. And lighting is also great.
@frederickhaman:
ROFL! At the level of the best looking console games? Are you blind?
No console games have come close to rendering that vast scale of geometric complexity, mass vegetation, texture resolution and accurate lighting.
Uncharted 2 isn't that good quality once you take a close look at the geometry and texture resolution.
Higher res version of the video:
1 Gigabit. Not Gigabyte.
GB = GigaByte
Gb = Gigabit
8 bits in a byte.
1000 Megabits / 8 = 125 MegaBytes.
So the connection is 125 MegaBytes a second.. Which is still pretty insane. No consumer even has a hard drive that can handle that high of a transfer rate unless they own an SSD, which are still a bit expensive.
Even a 1mbps connection is good enough for most games. Amount of data sent per second isn't what matters as long as your above that. What matters is "latency". The amount of time it takes the data to get from your place to the games servers and back. With fiber optic it is quicker than electricity though :)
@Hitman0769:
Your right, the PS Eye is in the past for a reason. As you say, it's old technology. But what does that have to do with Natal? Did you forget that Natal is not just a camera? It also has a depth sensor. That is the main difference. It's is tracking depth with a dedicated sensor for it, and using the RGB camera for other stuff like importing real world images and facial recognition.
Yes there's a slight delay in the reaction with this system. There wouldn...
@somerandomdude:
"Some people simply don't care, it's more high tech, but it isn't different enough."
It's not supposed to be "different". It's supposed to be "better". It's taking the idea many other people and Sony have tried, and using better technology to actually make it work reasonably.
And of course some people don't care. That's the same way with pretty much everything. What's your point?
"
WOW! I thin...
@MattCielo:
Go do some f*cking research you idiot. It only has an RGB camera. Which it tries to calculate depth information from. It's not an actual f*cking depth sensor. It's a whole lot less accurate than the actual depth sensor that's in Natal.
@PS360WiiRocks:
Correction, you have Xfinity and Qwest only. haha
It's so sad that Comcast merely changed their name to Xfinity instead of actually try to make changes to their services that people have been complaining about.
It's what the PS Eye should have been. A color camera coupled with a depth sensor for real camera based motion tracking. The PS Eye only had a color camera. What Microsoft has done is taken the same concept and do it correctly.
And Sony wasn't the first to think of this type of input. People have been dreaming about it for ages. It's only up until recently though that we've had the processing power to make it a reality.
HOLY F*CK! The stupidity and the ignorance of so many people on this site is overwhelming.
Firstly, to all you fanboys, stop mass disagreeing any comment that doesn't agree with your console of choice. It's immature.
Now onto the subject. Let's clarify some things about Natal. Hopefully you ignorant twats will actually open your mind for a second and let this information seep in. And if you don't believe what I'm about to say, then go research it for your f*cking sel...
The very fact it's been cheaper than all other Blu-ray players up until just recently has been a good enough fact. Even if you aren't a gamer and only wanted a Blu-ray player, it has been the cheapest option.
It just goes to show how much of a premium other Blu-ray player makers have been putting on their players if a current gen game console can bundle a Blu-ray disc reader inside and still be cheaper.
Because then it's more generations of cards they have to test the drivers on to make sure things are running smoothly. They have to make the cutoff point somewhere. Before the 6000 series is where. And that point will continue to move up with time.
See here's the point lots of people like the above commenters seem to be missing...
YOU CAN STILL USE YOUR CONTROLLER AT THE SAME DAMN TIME!
Microsoft has merely shown off some game concepts where only Natal would be needed. Never have they said that controllers will never again be needed, that it can completely replace them.
If they ever felt the need to, Microsoft could easily just later on release a stick shaped remote with a simple geometric shape on...
@randomwiz:
Why does it matter if they were late? There's only a few games so far that even support DX11. It's better to be late and have an awesome card, then to be early and have a quickly slapped together chip to open early. Which is basically what the 5xxx series is.
Fermi is a whole new architecture, and quite an amazing one at that. While ATI is still chugging along on the same one for the past 5 generations. Plus the GTX 4xx is coming out this March. So Nvidia...
March.
@randomwiz:
Why would that matter? You could say that about Nvidia also.
"meh, i'd wait till Nvidia's 32nm if I'd have to give up my soul. "
There are 8 "bits" in a "byte".
1 Gigabit = 1024 Megabits
1024 Megabit ÷ 8 = 128 Megabytes
So the connection speed is 128 Megabytes. Which is still insanely freaking fast. Could download a Blu-ray movie in 3 minutes and 33 seconds.
Obvious troll, but I'll reply anyway.
Read it an weep:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
There's nothing special about the 360's GPU. A PC user could buy the same powered GPU way back in 2006. It's pretty much the same GPU as the x1900.
http://e...