November 8, 2006 is NVIDIA fanboy’s memorial day, because NV launch G80. It is a brand new architecture, using unified shader to rise up total performance, totally throw the “traditional” Pixel Shader and Vertex shader away.

□ G9x Got a higher Shader/core ratio

From information NVIDIA provides, we know 8800 GTX’s shader/core ratio is2.34，8800 GTS is 2.4，8800 Ultra is 2.45. Nowadays G9x the ratio have been raise and set to 2.5. With a proper ratio, G8x/G9x can output more performance.

　　□ G9x supports PCI-E 2.0

After G92, NV’s product begin to support PCIe Gen2. PCIe Gen2 means each lane’s bandwidth doubles from 2.5Gbps to 5Gbps. Also PCIe Gen 2 can provide more power.( up to 300W)

Nvidia's G92 is little more than G80 in 65nm

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquir...ittle-g80-65nm