GeForce 9900 GTX & GTS Slated For July Launch

[DilTech]

I am actually just more amused by Diltech and what he says/does.
I'm not saying it isn't possible, it is just highly amusing reading between the lines of what he says.

Glad I can amuse you so easily. You'll be even more amused come mid-june. :::Thinks back to when everyone said late Q3/Q4 release and I told everyone it'll show up in june:::

p.s. Glad to see you've gotten to play with a new toy as well B.Z.

[Anth Seebel]

Is this 18th June launch a paper launch or will the cards be available in stores on the 18th ?

A low availability launch always sucks big time, hope decent numbers of physical cards are ready for release.

[gundamit]

Dang. Searched and still can't find information regarding the bolt pattern around the GPU. Any chance old 8800/9800 air and water will mount on this new card?

[GoldenTiger]

Is this 18th June launch a paper launch or will the cards be available in stores on the 18th ?

A low availability launch always sucks big time, hope decent numbers of physical cards are ready for release.

Hope so too .

[Tim]

NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 280 will be impressive

Just wait until June 17th when the GTX 200 series of GPU's launch, and you'll start asking yourself when you last witnessed such a dramatic technology improvement. If you thought the GeForce 8 series blew the 7-series out of the water, this is going to leave you in shock. That's not my own marketing spin... Benchmark Reviews is presently testing the new GeForce video card.

Benchmarkreviews

Source : If that is true I'm going to faint. M-m-m-m-mooooonster card.

Bigger performance increase then from 7 series to 8!!!!!!

[waway625]

Remember the last photos of the GT200 cooler???








now look at this card :









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regards

so its the same? (im sorry I cant make out the pic the guy is holding)

[p2501]

Remember the last photos of the GT200 cooler???


now look at this card :






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regards

Either the guy holding it is veery small, or that thing is a monster. From the looks of it he could use it very well for muscle buildup training. (or whatever that's called in english) Freakin huge!

[largon]

gundamit,
According to the leaked 3D model of the G200 cicuit board the centers of the mounting holes are 61mm apart so they aren't compatible with those on G80/G92 which are 54mm apart.

[fornowagain]

Either the guy holding it is veery small, or that thing is a monster. From the looks of it he could use it very well for muscle buildup training. (or whatever that's called in english) Freakin huge!

Looks about right to me.




The above image lightened a bit, I don't think anything is being faked here. Just the perspective is different.

[Leeghoofd]

Yeah looks alright in this picture on the other one it seems bigger, or is it a case of a worse photoshop

(if ya notice the weirdness in the shadow behind the CEO, seems something was chopped...)

[Philip_J_Fry]

i gotta say, as a long time nv owner, who has never owned an ATI card, if the rumors turned out to be true that GTX 280 costs >$600USD ... the rumored 4870's $350USD price tag sounds very good

but then again, for 600 bux the GTX 280 might be another 8800GTX = long product life... arrrrgh hard to choose

wonder why they didnt have a 8900GTX that was done on 65nm and has higher core clock, and more ROP/shaders//TMU ..etc, like 7800 GTX 512/7900GTX vs 7800GTX 256

[trinibwoy]

wonder why they didnt have a 8900GTX that was done on 65nm and has higher core clock, and more ROP/shaders//TMU ..etc, like 7800 GTX 512/7900GTX vs 7800GTX 256

Can't have your cake and eat it too....

7800GTX-512 had higher clocks on the same process and ran hotter
7900GTX had higher clocks on a smaller process and ran cooler

Neither had an increase in any type of unit over the original 7800GTX-256.

Expecting a 8900GTX on the same 65nm process as G92 with both higher clocks and higher unit counts is a bit optimistic. G92 wasn't exactly sipping power.

Still, it looks like Nvidia came in 100Mhz shy of its target shader clock...1400Mhz would have taken them to the 1 Teraflop finish line.

[p2501]

fornowagain, thanks for the alternative picture. But even if the first one was shopped, based on yours I'd still say this thing is massive, even though the 4870x2 is going to be a huge chunk of copper, too.

But what I really wonder is how much energy this thing will suck while idling around. ~240w peak seems much, okay, but when they managed to keep the idle pwr draw to a minimum I'd be okay with it.

[BenchZowner]

I'm sure I will be.
Don't recall you ever saying something first... I remember you saying stuff after others had given the info...

Don't act like a jerk please.
Don't know what made you say that, but it's definitely not beneficial for yourself, and surely not for another member of XS.

[GoldenTiger]

Don't act like a jerk please.
Don't know what made you say that, but it's definitely not beneficial for yourself, and surely not for another member of XS.

Yep, and that's in addition to flat-out being a lie... who knows what's up with EC911 .

[Monkeywoman]

here is coverage of Nvidias editors day 2008; http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.ph...=178&Itemid=46

taken right from article, "Video games are now seeing an added dependence on physics processing, just as well as GPU and CPU. GPU's Such as NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce graphics processor have shifted the dependence of video games onto the GPU, and added an on-board PhysX co-processor, it won't be long before the CPU really offers no level of performance for video games."

DAM!!

[Nuker_]

I find it funny that nvidia is highlighting piclens, an ok firefox plugin.

[Seraphiel]

I trust DilTech and BenchZowner about GTX 280. Hope you are enjoying the toys!

Now games just needs to catch up...

[AliG]

here is coverage of Nvidias editors day 2008; http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.ph...=178&Itemid=46

taken right from article, "Video games are now seeing an added dependence on physics processing, just as well as GPU and CPU. GPU's Such as NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce graphics processor have shifted the dependence of video games onto the GPU, and added an on-board PhysX co-processor, it won't be long before the CPU really offers no level of performance for video games."

DAM!!

Maybe that means that isn't NVIO but rather a physx processor that we're seeing as the second die?

[Nuker_]

I trust DilTech and BenchZowner about GTX 280. Hope you are enjoying the toys!

Now games just needs to catch up...

I doubt games like stalker clear sky and crysis need to catch up...

[clonez]

@alig

yeah, i was just thinking exactly the same thing
especially the statement "on-board" makes that apparent (physix is not managed by the gpu, otherwise it would have been "on-die" or something like that)

after all, who would actually use a gt200 card inside a media center pc, there are cards taking only 1/10 of the electricity, are much quieter and cheaper, but still offer good hd support (if nvio is not integrated in the gpu, which i seriously doubt; only reason that thing is included is to make specs more impressive/ people using that card shure have a processor running hd without gpu support)

[largon]

It's NVIO 2.0, not PhysX.

[Shintai]

A physx chip would also need aditional memory chips.

Physics on a GPU is still a joke and it wont change.

Reminds me, aint it about time to axe the analog outputs? (TV-Out). Everyone and their mother got DisplayPort/VGA/DVI/HDMI on their TV and equipment. With VGA being combined with one of the others usually.

[EternityZX9]

I trust DilTech and BenchZowner about GTX 280. Hope you are enjoying the toys!

Now games just needs to catch up...

With...

Farcry 2
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky
Fallout 3
Project Origin

All coming out this fall...I think we'll be all set for this year...

[BenchZowner]

I'm still wondering what's going on with Alan Wake... the website hasn't been updated since...well.