8600 Ultra and 8600 GT

[3NZ0]

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Looking good, quite literally.

[nn_step]

looks like the GeForce 8600Ultra will be about half the performance of a 8800GTX.

[XSAlliN]

Now this I like, looks more decent .

[Ashraf]

Looks sexy.

[Timmay]

No PCIe power connector required??

[XSAlliN]

OMG - use the edit feature and delete the darn post yourself

Sorry 4 that in most forums you don't have this option, didn't see it



Guess it's on 128 Bits - GT doesn't look very promising, Ultra seems similar whit actual 7600GT but might have better performance in DX10 if the specifications related to it or true.

[nn_step]

am I the only one here that finds the matching number of transistors for the 8600Ultra and the 8600GT rather surprising (considering the different number of shaders)

[Timmay]

Lazer cut? BIOS Disabled?

What kind of performance should we expect out of this from DX9 games? 7950 ish?

[alexio]

am I the only one here that finds the matching number of transistors for the 8600Ultra and the 8600GT rather surprising (considering the different number of shaders)

Remember this is not your average chip. 300M transistors is nothing to sneeze at, so they always have the yield issue. If these specs are indeed true.

By the way the cooler in the pic looks really crappy. I think it is the 8600GT, because I can't see how the 8*** series architecture at 500mhz with 300M transistors could be kept cool with this thing.

The most important info we miss here is the memory buswidth. What would they mean with "CMOS"?

[milkcafe]

1400MHz 128bit GDDR3 ????????

same memory bandwidth as the 7600GT

the card wont be faster than the 7900GTO @ Dx9 games

[Major_A]

Sign me up, my 7600GT is getting a little long in the tooth and I'm maxed at 1280X1024 so no need for a monster card.

[Timmay]

1400MHz 128bit GDDR3 ????????

same memory bandwidth as the 7600GT

the card wont be faster than the 7900GTO

But wouldn't the Ultra atleast have to be 256bit because of the 512MB RAM??

[alexio]

But wouldn't the Ultra atleast have to be 256bit because of the 512MB RAM??

No, density varies and so does IC buswidth.

[milkcafe]

PCB size limits the memory bandwidth

It will be 4x 64MB (or 4x128MB for 512MB version)

the bigger PCB size

the higher manufacture cost & final price

[Timmay]

So the unofficial vote so far is that it will be around 7900GT speeds then?

[milkcafe]

looks like the GeForce 8600Ultra will be about half the performance of a 8800GTX.

half 8800GTX will be like this


nVidia GeForce 8600 Ultra PCI-E

Core Clock: 500 MHz
Memory Clock: 700 MHz (1400 DDR)
Memory Bandwidth: 22.4 GB/sec
Shader Operations: 36800 Operations/sec
Pixel Fill Rate: 6900 MPixels/sec
Texture Fill Rate: 9200 MTexels/sec
Vertex Operations: 18400 MVertices/sec

Framebuffer: 512 MB
Memory Type: GDDR3
Memory Bus Type: 32x4 (128 bit)
DirectX Compliance: 10.0
OpenGL Compliance: 2.0
PS Version: 4.0
VS Version: 4.0
Process: 80 nm
Fragment Pipelines: 64
Vertex Pipelines: 64
Texture Units: 16
Raster Operators 12

comparing

nVidia GeForce 7800 GTX 512MB PCI-E
Core Clock: 550 MHz
Memory Clock: 850 MHz (1700 DDR)
Memory Bandwidth: 54.4 GB/sec
Shader Operations: 13200 Operations/sec
Pixel Fill Rate: 8800 MPixels/sec
Texture Fill Rate: 13200 MTexels/sec
Vertex Operations: 1100 MVertices/sec


ATi Radeon X1800 XT PE
Core Clock: 700 MHz
Memory Clock: 800 MHz (1600 DDR)
Memory Bandwidth: 51.2 GB/sec
Shader Operations: 11200 Operations/sec
Pixel Fill Rate: 11200 MPixels/sec
Texture Fill Rate: 11200 MTexels/sec
Vertex Operations: 1400 MVertices/sec


nVidia GeForce 7900 GTX
Core Clock: 650 MHz
Memory Clock: 800 MHz (1600 DDR)
Memory Bandwidth: 51.2 GB/sec
Shader Operations: 15600 Operations/sec
Pixel Fill Rate: 10400 MPixels/sec
Texture Fill Rate: 15600 MTexels/sec
Vertex Operations: 1300 MVertices/sec


ATi Radeon X1950 XTX
Core Clock: 650 MHz
Memory Clock: 1000 MHz (2000 DDR)
Memory Bandwidth: 64 GB/sec
Shader Operations: 31200 Operations/sec
Pixel Fill Rate: 10400 MPixels/sec
Texture Fill Rate: 10400 MTexels/sec
Vertex Operations: 1300 MVertices/sec

[nano]

Damn, im gona get at 8600Ultra for my old AMD rig looks very nice.

[Gam3Ra]

8600 series will be 256bit, hold the mouse to "CMOS" text and see

[alucasa]

This card will be my upgrade from 7600GT and GS.

[Starscream]

at the bottom of the link in the TS u can go to page 2 wich brings info on the 8300 cards.


http://66.249.93.104/translate_c?hl=...language_tools

although the amount of transistors in the 8300 seems a bit off.

[grimREEFER]

i bet the 8600u will overclock like crazy....2 of those in sli will be nice on an asus 650 board. the ultimate budget pc lol.
$180 for the 512mb version, right?

[Ziwro]

İ Like İt

[squilliam]

Stupid question.
Will it work with my nforce 570? I mean, it should
work on any PCIx16 bus, right?

[3NZ0]

Stupid question.
Will it work with my nforce 570? I mean, it should
work on any PCIx16 bus, right?

yes it will work

[LuckyNV]

is it me or did the table just get updated to read mem interface@256bit?