Right after the 8800Ultra and 8950GX2 we have some 'alarming' news from Erik Larsson..
The news story needs to be updated overtime as it is not known if the "BUG" is in the software level or at the hardware level...But if it's an hardware issue than nVIDIA will be repleacing all 8800 cards with the upcoming 8900GTX/GTS cards to be released in June/July timeframe..costumers who bought 8800GTX/GTS cards need no worry as their cards will be repleaced by future SKUs from the GeForce 8900 (80nm G81) product family..
Ever since NVIDIA released their revolutionary GeForce 8800 GTX and GeForce 8800 GTS graphics cards, users have been complaining about the poor Vista driver support and how these expensive cards have failed to improve their performance in games. That may now come to pass, in a manner of speaking.
Erik Larsson, according to NVIDIA engineer source ,wishes look to remain anonymous, has just clued me the whole deal. This engineer claims that while allegations of poor gaming performance are correct, the reason is not really poor drivers. Brace yourselves for the truth.
Right after the G80 was taped out, NVIDIA discovered a bug in the vertex shader that causes the GPU to generate slightly incorrect geometry transformation data. The difference was minimal enough to escape attention but it was significant enough to render a scene incorrectly.
Now, what's the big deal about a slightly incorrect scene? After all, you can't even tell the difference between 2xAA and 4xAA. What would a slightly different scene matter when you are zipping along at 60+ fps? Well, that's what YOU think.
Here's the bummer. What it really means is that objects can be rendered off to one side. For FPS gamers, this can cause shots aimed at those objects (like your opponents) to miss when they should really hit. In RTS games, it may cause you to click on the wrong unit or send your units to attack a different target. So, yeah, you can now blame your poor gaming skills on a bug.
UPDATE : NO HARDWARE BUG IN G80
UPDATE : NO HARDWARE BUG IN G80
It's being published by many
websites and contacting my nVIDIA source yield that the rumors about a
bug are incurrect..nVIDIA has a driver bug that cab be fixed via driver
update and NOT a hardware bug so please correct the data about the G80
BUG because it's incorrect... G80 HAS NO BUG.. the reason it was poblished by many websites was just an APRIL FOOL for the 1st of april.. Related Products :
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