Geforce 9600 GT coming soon!

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Not exactly right.Nvidia is talking about ''Second generation Unified Shader architecture''

There will be some architectural improvements in Geforce 9.

and yet this will be the second generation in a row where the midrange of cards is solidly beat by the previous generations highend cards.

x1950XT beat the 8600GTS by over 30%
and it's looking liek the 8800GTS will beat the 9600 by over 30% as well.

not the type of scenario where the 7600GT beats the 6800U overall.

[realsmasher]

look the huge pcb of 8800gt and all the caps and so on.

You really think a mid-range card will be like that ?

Of course it can be, but i doubt it.

The card will be clocked at 500mhz/2000mhz (Gpu/Ram),and is expected to have 96 SP units and a 256bit wide memory bus
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The performance of 9600GT will be somewhere between 8800GT and HD 3850

so either the performance per clock was raised by a enormous amount or this is bull.

500mhz and 96sp vs 600mhz and 112sp makes the 8800gt like 40% faster. But 8800gt is NOT 40% faster then 3850.

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and yet this will be the second generation in a row where the midrange of cards is solidly beat by the previous generations highend cards.

x1950XT beat the 8600GTS by over 30%
and it's looking liek the 8800GTS will beat the 9600 by over 30% as well.

not the type of scenario where the 7600GT beats the 6800U overall.

Yeah,unfortunately you are right.

The 7600GT was a legendary card...

so which one's gonna come first, 9600 or 9800???

Nvidia is playing a different game this time and will anounce the new gen. midrange card before the highends.

If nothing goes wrong 9600GT will come out in mid-February,but 9800GTX in late March or early April.

But I have my doubts about this source...

So far Nvidia has always thrown the highend models to the market first. Mainstream was always out later, so I have my doubts about this source. Not saying it's completely bs, but things may be different.

One thing is wrong for sure: The memory speed is surely not 2000 MHz, because that would mean DDR4000 The correct value should be 1000 MHz or DDR2000, but not 2000 MHz.

I am not sure about the source too.It's not officially coming from Nvidia.

The memory speed should be 1000mhz (DDR2000 effectively),thanks for the correction.

[betoh]

Yeah,unfortunately you are right.

The 7600GT was a legendary card...

It still is to me


And I also think we need to see a new high end card already... its been a while.