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Rumour control: Nvidia to make big September announcement
After SLI was codenamed Big Bang, speculation is rife about what Big Bang II could offer if it’s announced in September
Back in 2004, Nvidia announced that it was reviving the world of dual-graphics from the ashes of 3dfx, as well as the SLI acronym, albeit with a different meaning. In the build-up, SLI was modestly codenamed Big Bang, and a leaked presentation slide over at Chile Hardware apparently shows that Nvidia has plans to announce its successor, Big Bang II, in September.
The question is: What sort of announcement could deserve the same level of billing as SLI? We’ve already had the new GTX 280 and 260 GPUs, and we’ve already seen plenty of dual-GPU graphics cards too. The blurry slide reveals what could be included in Big Bang II, although it’s very difficult to decipher. Among its bullet points are OpenGL 3.0, as well as quality and performance improvements. We think it also says ‘SLI connectivity features’ too.
However, Nordic Hardware claims that the new announcement will concern ‘updated CUDA support and improved drivers.’ The site also claims that ‘SLI will be updated,’ adding that Big Bang II could offer ‘improved scaling in various SLI configurations.’ Meanwhile, The Inquirer claims that Big Bang II will allow you to enable SLI on multi-monitor setups, as well as offer ten-bit display support, all of which will come from the 180-series ForceWare drivers.
If the above speculation is true, then it certainly doesn’t sound like it will be as big a bang as the original SLI announcement, but then very few details are known at the moment and all of this just speculation as far as we know. If you had a Big Bang wish list, what would you like to see in Nvidia’s next big announcement? Let us know your thoughts.
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If I was asked what I really wanted in this new announcement, how about finally giving us a card that can do solid modeling directly. - We've only been waiting 15 years for that one, oh still not enough processing power? one day
Comment by lucien86 at 10:17am 2nd August 2008
aww and im building a rig right now why dont they tell us like 4 months before instead of 2 (unless its a new range of NVIDIA CPU'S AND MOTHERBOARD'S THEN IM HAPPY :) )
Comment by camz2008 at 4:36pm 30th July 2008
Why is there an announcement in July, for an anouncement is Sept?!!
Comment by Warrior24_7 at 1:22pm 29th July 2008
I've just built an awsome SLI rig and I can't get over the feeling I've just wasted my money!
Comment by Warrior24_7 at 6:37pm 28th July 2008
Run dx10/11 on a dx9 card or that all exisiting gpu's can run on an x86 architecture, and you only need a new driver to do it. "Suck eggs intel"
Comment by Hawkest at 12:02pm 28th July 2008
Ok some ppl might not agree with this comment. But admittedly after I saw what was possible in graphics realism with Ray Tracing over traditional triangular polygon rasterization. NVidia & everyone else should be making the move over to RAY Tracing. An they all should be focusing on what Intel have in store for Gaming world... should be working hard away at it. We want to see Nvidia beating intel at their own game even though the latter have **** load more resources to shake a stick at!!
Comment by jamie_horwood at 12:49pm 28th July 2008
Run dx10/11 on a dx9 card or that all exisiting gpu's can run on an x86 architecture, and you only need a new driver to do it. "Suck eggs intel"
Comment by Hawkest at 12:02pm 28th July 2008
announcement "2 x GeForce 8800 series for the price of one... for your SLi needs... exclusively at Tesco"
Comment by cookie at 10:18am 28th July 2008
The slide is titled "Driver Timeline 2008" so it's not going to be about hardware release. I'm preparing to be completely underwhelmed.
Comment by technogiant at 9:04am 27th July 2008
Perhaps its a sequel to a blue movie. Or should that be green movie?
Comment by u4coffee at 6:42pm 26th July 2008
Perhaps its a sequel to a blue movie. Or should that be green movie?
Comment by u4coffee at 6:42pm 26th July 2008
that lets you plug a graphics card into the CPU socket
Comment by Cogwulf at 4:19pm 26th July 2008
I really couldn't see a new version of SLI being a "big bang", I would understand if they were gonna develop CPUs and Chipsets which are also Physx enabled that would be a "Big Bang!" but an SLI update isn't so big, and to be honest SLI and Xfire have been updated that many times, and they weren't "Big Bangs" - - - - I would personally love to buy an Nvidia CPU because they seem much more Gamer/enthusiast based, so obviously the competitors would have to focus on developing CPUs for us guys first!! :D - - - but I guess AMD have being focusing more on buisnesses recently anyway... I think AMD are gonna be the new VIA tbh, Intel are the only CPU manufacturers that develop for us right now :(
Comment by NikoBellic at 10:19am 26th July 2008
.... They're going to announce a version of SLi that actually works well.
Comment by l3v1ck at 9:59am 26th July 2008
Nvidia hate Intel, they are just trying to burst Intel,s bubble when they release their new Cpu,s and chipsets in september.
Comment by blazinglory at 6:52am 26th July 2008
Nvidia have actually persuaded ATi to use PhysX willingly? They have a new super fast CPU for Christmas? The next-gen Nvidia cards aren't 1kg in weight and the length of a aircraft carrier?
Comment by DudQuitter at 9:54pm 25th July 2008
Could we be seeing truly useful SLI - two different cards working together?
Comment by greentrident at 8:41pm 25th July 2008
Maybe this is what nVidia have been busy with while they rolled out SKU after SKU based on the G80 architecture. Even ATi managed to do something in that timeframe when they were barely scraping a profit.
Comment by Zhaoman at 8:14pm 25th July 2008
Nvidia will be announcing in September that they will be making another announcement in November. Bear with me a sec while I knock-up a slide to go with that :P
Comment by CSQuake at 6:54pm 25th July 2008
id love for SLI to offer the same performance scaling as Xfire or if possible i would love to see 2 cards exactly = twice the fps of 1 card. Regardless of driver/game developing support may i add!
Comment by garrynicol69 at 6:37pm 25th July 2008
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