Nvidia Geforce 9800GTX Specifications released!

[sladesurfer]

Source: http://www.xbitlabs.com/discussion/3953.html

the list of the new specifications of the 9800GTX

The card will cost:
-The 9800GTX for 549$>649$
-The 9800GTS for 399$>449$

- 65nm process technology at TSMC.
- Over one billion transistors.
- Second Generation Unified Shader Architecture.
- Double precsion support (FP64).
- GPGPU native.
- Over one TeraFLOPS of shader processing power.
- MADD+ADD configuration for the shader untis (2+1 FLOPS=3 FLOPS per ALU)
- Fully Scalar design.
- 512-bit memory interface.
- 1024MB GDDR4 graphics memory.
- DirectX 10.1 support.
- OpenGL 3.0 Support.
- eDRAM die for "FREE 4xAA".
- built in Audio Chip.
- built in tesselation unit (in the graphics core"
- Improved AA and AF quality levels

[Vice]

Better start saving up now !

[Morais]

OMG ! Very nice specs

[XeRo]

How reliable is the guy that posted the information?

[triple_A]

2 times as fast as an 8800ultra

nVidia needs to chill out

[lowfat]

Very nice indeed!

[Chewbenator]

Holy crap, I know what I'm getting for Christmas! Looks like we will finally be seeing the midrange this generation when this card boots the others down.

[SoF]

[One_Hertz]

and with enough time to save for two. Hopefully the specs are correct.

[sladesurfer]

*starts checking wallet for money *

[bro20000]

Best start saying for 2 in sli!

[Shintai]

If anyone wonders about the eDRAM. Its because 4xAA is mandatory is DX10.1

[Der_KHAN]

- eDRAM die for "FREE 4xAA".

now that was about ing time!

... 5yrs after the matrox parhelia...

[sladesurfer]

If anyone wonders about the eDRAM. Its because 4xAA is mandatory is DX10.1

Care to explain more about eDRAM? sorry im a noob

[Der_KHAN]

If anyone wonders about the eDRAM. Its because 4xAA is mandatory is DX10.1

oh, so that's the reason why they are finally gonna do it?

well then i guess i have to say thank you microsoft for raising the bar

[lowfat]

I would love to see Nvidia get off their @$$es and get their so called physics on the way, I'd love to throw my current 8800 in for a Physics processor.

[lowfat]

If anyone wonders about the eDRAM. Its because 4xAA is mandatory is DX10.1

sweet That should make a world of difference.

[clayton]

EDRAM? YAY! Another reason to add to my waiting-list, starting with a low powerconsumption QUADCORECPU.

GeForce 9800 GTX will be over two times faster than a GeForce 8800 Ultra in real world games and applcations.

The speaker guy from LA LAKERS: "Are you kidding me!? Are you!?"

Imagine 2 9800GTX in SLI!
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Waterbongs

[Der_KHAN]

Care to explain more about eDRAM? sorry im a noob

tbh i don't know how they do it exactly. all i know is that eDRAM stands for embedded DRAM. it's kinda like on-die cache - for an extra framebuffer maybe. and they use it to get anti-aliasing without any fps-decrease. AA for free basically.

[trans am]

not to be confused with 9800 pro

[Verisimilitude]

not to be confused with 9800 pro

I can see the scams already.

[Blauhung]

Care to explain more about eDRAM? sorry im a noob

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDRAM

eDRAM stands for "embedded DRAM", a capacitor-based dynamic random access memory usually integrated on the same die or in the same package as the main ASIC or processor, as opposed to external DRAM modules and transistor-based SRAM typically used for caches.

[Starscream]

1 billion + transsitors, eDRAM, 512bit membus etc.

i wonder how big that die will be even if it is 65nm.

[Mortal]

I think I just got an e-boner!

That is presuming all of this is 100% factual of course.

[Eightballrj]

Ugh... how long can I wait... Must put debit card back into wallet and not buy 1gb 2900.... MUST... NOT....