9800GTX pic and specs

[turtle]

From a business perspective - nobody should ever hold back a superior product in hopes of *future* sales. The only possible motivation for doing so would be if the cost was substantially less for making the current products than the superior ones, or to clear out inventory.

I think this will end up superior. Would it have less total bandwidth with the rumored specs even with the 2400mhz effective memory? Yes, yes it would. But G92's architectural enhancements (textures etc) over G80 and sheer clock speed should allow it to usurp the former high-end. Yes I understand people have already done this through overclocking current G92 products, but what matters in the market is the stock clocks, and on these products they are relatively higher than what we currently see.

That again all being said, it has been mentioned that this generation was supposed to be launch Q407, a normal ~1 year between high-end products, but was held back when there was a surplus of the G80 products in the channel, even at the reduced price.

My assumption has been that the 8800gt/s were only released because of nvidia needing products to compete with the 3800 series and now that excess G80's are out of the channel, they can go ahead with the launch of the products clocked higher and with more bandwidth at stock to actually call it the generation after the 8800 series.

I would just think of it this way...If you grabbed a 8800gt/gts512MB, you got to jump on the next-gen train early. If you overclock, you have defeated nvidia's intention, with the exception of the new highest-end part using faster memory than what is currently available.

[dinos22]

loooooooooove these threads

ppl are killing each other debating about vapourware

let's see the real deal and real benchmarks and OCs

[Roger_D25]

I hate to say it since I've participated, but you have a great point there!

[Dainas]

why not call it a 8900GTX heh


ATi is going to have a nice year.

Nope, more like why not call it a 9800GTS or 8950GTS. Considering how big this thing looks, I'd be angry at Nvidia for no shoehorning a 512bit bus on there and 2GB of ram.

[adamsleath]

"G92" GeForce 9800 GTX specs.

- 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

...since it has turned to vapour...



and yet more rumours:

- Codenamed G100
- 65nm process
- 256 shader processors
- 780MHz core clock
- 3200MHz memory clock
- 512-bit memory width
- 2048MB (256X8) GDDR5 chips
- GDDR5 @ 0.25-0.5ns
- Dual DVI-out
- Supports DX 10.1, VP3
- 15-25% lower TDP than 8800GTS

[n3wbi3]

...since it has turned to vapour...



and yet more rumours:

EXACTLY all rumours

[Kingcarcas]

I guess this is what happens when you don't have competition for so long.

[grimREEFER]

its the same frequency as the 8800gts but eats up more power?
hope?

[LordEC911]

I recall a story from about a year ago that the 8800GTX silicon actually had 160 shaders but they were only using 128 to improve yields. An engineer from nVidia actually confirmed this and indicated that the full 160 shaders might be utilized after a die shrink.

So my guess is that the card will have at least 160 shaders, and I'm also guessing there is no reason to go back to 512MB of memory and they will stick with 768MB (also supported by the pics of the card and how long it is).

It was never confirmed nor was it real.
That was completely fanboy hope for the Ultra which has now moved over to the G92.

[disruptfam]

i think i will just pick up a second gtx on ebay for cheap after these come out...

[virtualrain]

It was never confirmed nor was it real.
That was completely fanboy hope for the Ultra which has now moved over to the G92.

The Ultra was not a die-shrink though... so whoever combined the rumor of 160 shaders with the Ultra was not following the "rumors" very well... we shall see soon enough.

[YukonTrooper]

Posted by accident, sorry to waste the space guys (not sure what the heck I was thinking)?

You can delete posts, you know. Well I guess you don't... You know now!

[p8ntslinger676]

...I think ill stay with my 8800GTX. Or maybe go back to ATI

EDIT: wait ill just pick up another 8800GTX once these hit the market, that will do nicely

[geoffsthaboss]

i think i might try a 3870x2

[RAMMAN]

so basically its just my current card with a few more shaders

[GAR]

ill just flash my 8800gts to gtx, cool, i have dual 9800gtx's already woohoooo

[ANP !!!]

the fan is rated at 0.34A, 4.08W, 2900rpm, 34dBA

That seems Load

[LowRun]

We can't call it crap until we see how it performs...

Anyway, they're merely doing it to combat ATi's efforts. If they weren't comfortable, they'd just push forward and drop a real new lineup instead of playing sit and wait, all the while giving them time to set up to drop on a smaller process size.

I said the design is crappy and performance even if good won't change that, can't reuse that after market cooler or waterblock you have already nor fit that phase change evap or LN2 pot so it will mainly be stock cooling

[JoeBar]

One question though, If it's just an oc'ed GTS, why it needs two 6pin connectors...?

[LordEC911]

The Ultra was not a die-shrink though... so whoever combined the rumor of 160 shaders with the Ultra was not following the "rumors" very well... we shall see soon enough.

Or you weren't following the rumors...
The rumors leading up to the Ultra was that IF there was an extra SP block, that it would be unlocked.
What does a die shrink have to do with unlocking a SP block?

[knightwolf654]

hmm guess i'll be waiting for the 10800 GTX

[EternityZX9]

If the card has 192 or 256 SP it still might be worth looking into when the card is released....even if the rest of the supposed specs are true.

[Daveb2012]

who cares about this worthless card.. next,

[takamishanoku]

Very good observation, and question.

Seconded that. Also it's 65 so it should require less power. Hmmm

[BulldogPO]

It looks like AMD and Nvidia are just waiting for Larrabee to wipe them out.