NVIDIA Will Not Release A New Architecture Until The End Of 2005 – Analysts

KingFish (KingFish) Research and investment firm Goldman Sachs said in its recent report it did not expect NVIDIA Corp. to release a new graphics architecture earlier than in late 2005 and any significant market share changes between ATI Technologies and NVIDIA Corp.

January 11, 2005 12:11 AM ET in News

Research and investment firm Goldman Sachs said in its recent report it did not expect NVIDIA Corp. to release a new graphics architecture earlier than in late 2005 and any significant market share changes between ATI Technologies and NVIDIA Corp.

“In terms of the core discreet desktop graphics (58% of revenue) franchise, NVIDIA will not release a new architecture until the end of 2005. This could allow ATI Technologies a window of superior performance if its gets its R520 products out on time (mid-2005). Overall, we expect little movement in desktop discreet market share in 2005 between NVIDIA and ATI Technologies,” Goldman Sachs’ report claims.

While NVIDIA remains extremely tight-lipped over its future products, it is known that the company is readying its code-named NV47 visual processing unit, a massively revamped GeForce 6 architecture with 24 pixel pipelines. The NV47 is expected to be released sometime in Spring, 2005, but it is unknown whether NVIDIA is ahead, or behind ATI’s R520 product. With 24 pixel pipelines NVIDIA Corp. is likely to feel itself competitive with ATI’s R520.

Source: X-Bit Labs

6 Comments:

  1. Shorty
    11 Jan '05, 8:19 am

    .. and the graphic juggernaut just rolls on. While im all for new technology development, making our "new" cards old generation within a matter of a few weeks... is really, really starting to get boring (or is it just me?)

  2. Gobbles
    11 Jan '05, 5:49 pm
    Quoting Shorty

    .. and the graphic juggernaut just rolls on. While im all for new technology development, making our "new" cards old generation within a matter of a few weeks... is really, really starting to get boring (or is it just me?)

    agreed, Thats why I refuse to play the game. Im still running my radeon 8500le but I am updating to a "newer" card this year. I never buy bleeding edge graphics cards for the very reason you mentioned.

  3. TheSmJ
    11 Jan '05, 9:23 pm

    Doesn't matter though. They'll still force everyone to buy new video cards when it comes time to go from AGP to PCIe.

  4. mmonnin
    12 Jan '05, 6:59 am

    I am still running my 8500LE as well.

  5. Spinner
    16 Jan '05, 2:27 pm
    Quoting Shorty

    .. and the graphic juggernaut just rolls on. While im all for new technology development, making our "new" cards old generation within a matter of a few weeks... is really, really starting to get boring (or is it just me?)

    Agreed, thats why I refuse to play the game. I'm still running my ATI Expert@Work 8MB but I do plan to upgrade to a "newer" card this year. I never buy bleeding edge graphics cards for the very reason you mentioned.

  6. TheLostSwede
    16 Jan '05, 2:38 pm

    There are people that use their pc for playing the latest games and if you want the eyecandy and high resolution, you need the latest. Although, this SLI have putted the cpu as the bottleneck which is really bad in my opinion. Especially when the manufacturers are struggling with heat. The first one who comes up with a cpu that can run 3 ghz under 90 watts of heat will win the race and right now, Intel looks to win that race and we all know how fast they are making sure those cpu's are at a price premium. The upcoming dual channel Dothan boards will probably make that a reality. Not to go off topic, but that's what happens.

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