512mb Geforce ETA?

[ZeroHour]

Anyone got any rough guesses when the 512mb geforce cards are expected to come out?

Cheers

 

[Sazar]

per the grapevine.. by the end of the year there should at least be samples

 

[ShepsCrook]

That's kinda sick. I think that's overdoing what we need at the present time.

 

[Skwowwy]

Even so, that's completely normal. 256 MB cards got released not too long ago and yet we don't fully utilize the entire memory. Doom 3 may be the only exception to this, but there's hardly a difference in graphics quality, though. Let alone a 512 MB card would perform better. Maybe with faster DDR3 memory. I suppose the 'coolness' factor plays a role here, so that people can show off how much memory they have on their card.

By the way, 512 MB or even 1 GB on DDR5 would be ultra fast. xD Indeed cool stuff, yeah, but that's unlikely to appear in the near future.

 

[champ2005]

i think that if a current games needs more than 256mb memory its not been designed properly. as u say the doom 3 ultra high settings dont look that much better than the next ones down.

 

[Kush]

when will the 1gb's come out lol! yes i want that much. hehe,