Quote Originally Posted by Sentential View Post
Probably more...

This is alot nicer of a card than I originally thought it would be. I still think the "8800GT" name is a ruse of sorts. Typically when nVidia makes mid-range cards they generally fall about half of the high end cards.

A lot of people say that the 9800GTX is a 1tflop card and on paper, a 256 shading unit 512bit card would do the trick.

Somehow I'm inclined to believe that they will (at the last minute) change the name to 9600GT and announce the full 65nm G91 with the specs mentioned above. In addition to an 9600GTS with 128 shading units.

Either way these numbers from a marketing perspective look really fishy. They're definatly up to something to say the least by offering a card that is very close if not at their $600 GTX / Ultra offerings at 1/2 ~ 1/3 of the price.
They could keep it 8800GT and just name the next high end the 8900 or something

They didn't name it 8900GT because they don't want a large number undercutting current sales of the GTX and Ultra, which they want to keep milking until they are replaced at the high end