NV 48 & NV 50 scrapped, what now?

[TrinireturnofGamez]

Nvidia scrapped the production of their next 2 graphic cards, the NV 48
( NV45 on .11 , higher clock ) and the NV50 (.09 nm , more pipes) . Obviously their currant generation of cards is more than advanced enough to handle  the X800 (250US) to X850 (500US) ATI cards, but what about the R500? its supposed to support a more optimised SM3.0 architecture and a 2GHZ GDDR4 clock !  
   I recommend all people looking to upgrade to wait another 3-4 months , the 6600gt will come down in price, and ATi's X800 (12 pipes @400mhz , 256bit, 350mhz DDR ) will be available on AGP by then .  
    http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/display...1205035620.html                    

[W1nTry]

Ur a bit late Trini but still... here:

Nvidia has canned NV48

No point making 20 MHz faster card

By Fuad Abazovic: Wednesday 01 December 2004, 22:01
ATI's RADEON X850XT PE is the last speed refresh that we will see this winter. Usually ATI's announcement comes close to Nvidia announcement but this time it won't happen.

Nvidia decided to cancel its NV48 project and reliable sources are claiming that you won't see those cards at all. According to the original plan we were supposed to see those cards in Q1 2005 but Nvidia realised that it made no sense at all to push a 20 to 30 MHz faster card.

NV40 and R420 chips will be known forever as the ones that companies pushed to their limits and Nvidia didn’t want to disappoint its customers with a marginally faster card. All it could manage was a 20-30MHz push, hardly anything to scream home about.

Nvidia will make NV45 cards available to market to fill PCIe high end market and that’s how it will remain until the new chip walks down the red carpet.

Nvidia has a good workhorse and a colt to beat X850, it's called SLI and includes two graphic cards working together. X850 XT PE can not match two NV45, 6800 Ultra cards in action.

We are in the dark about Nvidia's next move but it does count a lot of SLI. Who knows, it may be in the dark too? µ

Nvidia's NV50 canned

New things to come

By Fuad Abazovic: Friday 03 December 2004, 13:57
WE ARE told that Nvidia's next gen chip NV50 has been canned as well as the NV48 chip we reported on earlier in the week. I guess both were not fitting well into Nvidia's picture.

We don’t have any idea as yet what lead to such a decision, but Nvidia does apparently think it's now time to make its next breakthrough chip.

All we know is that Nvidia made a huge u-turn or a right turn in its roadmap as Intel describes it, and we don’t yet know where that leads.

We also know that Nvidia is very dedicated to win the graphic fight and to move away from the deadly embrace with ATI. In the current generation, it's not important what you get as both Nvidia and ATI cards are performing almost identically.

Nvidia still strongly believes that SLI is something that will become very important in the future. µ