NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS specs

[onethreehill]

"NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS is expected to work at 425MHz for the chip and 1000MHz for the memory, some sources close to NVIDIA Corp. are reported to have said. The product is projected, according to the sources, to have 12 pixel pipelines, 256-bit memory bus support all the advantages of the GeForce 6 architecture, e.g. Shader Model 3.0. Moreover, the card will be equipped with 256MB of GDDR-3 graphics memory working at 1000MHz frequency. GeForce 6800 GS will also support SLI, so the PCB will also carry a MIO connector that allows connecting two graphics cards into an SLI configuration with the help of the SLI bridge."

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/display/20051026173100.html

[onethreehill]

What about 110nm or 90nm? :)

It is probably based on 110nm NV42 chip.

[Tim]

Whoa that's a pretty fast card :cool:

Any ideas on the price? :)

wow, and in November already....looks like a good deal to me, it's gonna replace the 6600GT...worthy replacement I say ;)

[slider99]

Woah! That's quite some card. Will probably pwn the X1600 big time. 425 Mhz on the core, that's ultra speeds. Basically, this is almost an ultra with a quad disabled. Wonder how the overclocking headroom will be on core and RAM. What RAM will be used? Will most certainly not unlock, but the price at $200 still looks like one helluva deal!

[onewingedangel]

That seems to be a very good card, 256bit memory interface on a mid range card - about time. Should decimate the x1600 unless Ati raise the clocks futher or perform some miraculous tweaks to get the somewhat unbalanced x1600 the extra performance to match up, after all compared to the x1300 (which decimates the low end market and matches up to a 6600), the x1600 isn't that much better in most situations, and is a good deal more expensive.

[Piotrsama]

425 Mhz on the core, that's ultra speeds. Basically, this is almost an ultra with a quad disabled.
Theory: what if you could also enable that quad??... GTO2 killer :)

[HKPolice]

Won't happen, 7800GT is locked already.

Theory: what if you could also enable that quad??... GTO2 killer :)

[onewingedangel]

plus it looks like its going to be based on a 12 pipe core - so no pipes to unlock.

[Shadowmage]

That's correct, the 6800nU NV42 cores are hardware limited to 12 pipes, just like you won't be "unlocking" 7800GTX to 32 pipes ;)

Anyone have a 6800NU OCed to these speeds?

[SnipingWaste]

Whats the price going to be?
From the prices with the 6800 and 6800GT it looks like around the $200 to $220 range.

[slider99]

That's correct, the 6800nU NV42 cores are hardware limited to 12 pipes, just like you won't be "unlocking" 7800GTX to 32 pipes ;)

Anyone have a 6800NU OCed to these speeds?I used to, on my old P4 system. It also unlocked to 16/6vs... however, RAM didn't go this high of course, and it was DDR and only 128MB. Paired with a 2.85Ghz (oc'd) P4 and some 1024MB DDR-333 RAM just scored little more than 4K 3dm05. Not sure how good an indicator this is though... my old system was fairly crappy.

[Sentential]

That looks almost identical to the 6800U Go. Should be a very nice card for the money that is for sure.

[Cybercat]

Those sound like awesome specs for a mainstream card.

[Frodin]

Sounds good, although I hope it doesn't have the abysmal power draw of the desktop 6800 ultra, it doesn't befit a mainstream card.
What happened to the 7800 vanilla, or the 7600gt for that matter? My 6600 seriously needs a replacement for FEAR et al.

[Starscream]

@Frodin
there is also a post somewere around here about a soon to b released 16 pipe 7800GS.

[cyron1]

but the X1600XT has 1.536ghz memory clock and the same 12 pipelines right?

[Cybercat]

but the X1600XT has 1.536ghz memory clock and the same 12 pipelines right?
which seriously degraded by a 128-bit memory bus, four texture units, and four ROPs

[Shadowmage]

I think that X1600 series has a larger margin for improvement than the X1800 and X1300.

Remember that X1600 is similar to R580 in architecture, and the release is still a bit away, so they're mostly working on R520 now.

Also, someone on B3D mentioned that X1600 is currently much less optimized than X1800/X1300, so hopefully performance will increase to more acceptable levels :)

Performance right now is such a shame too... 1.536GHz RAM speeds on a midrange card looks seriously kickass...

[Tim]

I think that X1600 series has a larger margin for improvement than the X1800 and X1300.

Remember that X1600 is similar to R580 in architecture, and the release is still a bit away, so they're mostly working on R520 now.

Also, someone on B3D mentioned that X1600 is currently much less optimized than X1800/X1300, so hopefully performance will increase to more acceptable levels :)

Performance right now is such a shame too... 1.536GHz RAM speeds on a midrange card looks seriously kickass...

I agree...I honestly expected way more from the X1600, it's just not good enough....I wonder how much they can sqeeze out of it...but I don't think much.. :(