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[Komit]

So I've been seeing these specs thrown all around technology forums.

"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

65nm process will allow for better yields and better power consumption. power consumption will be lower than that of a GeForce 8800 GTX.

GeForce 9800 GTX will be over two times faster than a GeForce 8800 Ultra in real world games and applications.

Release date : November 2007. There will be TWO products at launch: The flagship GeForce 9800 GTX and the second fastest GeForce 9800 GTS.

Price for the GeForce 9800 GTX will be 549-649 USD.

Price for the GeForce 9800 GTS will be 399-449 USD.

Edited by Komit, 04 August 2007 - 02:00 AM.

[Novahawk]

Seeing as how the 8800 Ultra is still ~$800 right now... in 3 months, i seriously doubt a card that will be 2 times more powerful will cost ~$650.... plus, by nvidia tradition, the next card that should be coming out is the 8900.... so idk..

[Mandraque]

im thinking no. maybe by march 08 if anything.

[Justin Sane]

This war between ATI and nVidia is getting ridiculous. If this is true, which I doubt it is, it's further proof that these two companeis have slipped into the "GET IT OUT THE DOOR AS FAST AS POSSIBLE" routine. That's just gonna be a bad idea when the cards break down or the drivers aren't right, or just something is wrong because they're not testing as much as they used it. And that's not even considering how much these cards are costing these days.

[Chris82]

True. Quality is more important. I do favor towards ATi because I mainly play Source and I don't care what anyone says, Valve and ATi are in bed together, as well as my overheating problems with previous nVidia cards. However, I do not think that either company would release a new series of cards at the moment. I wouldn't count on the "9-series" until late 2008/early 2009.

[The Drizzle]

A new series, no not for a while, but a Refresh of the current cards will be in order fairly soon.

[Facehead]

Well, they are making cards for DirectX 10.1 I heard, I also heard that 8000 series card won't even support 10.1!!
I have a 8800 GTX 320mb, and if it won't support 10.1, Ima be pissssssssssssed >:{

[Novahawk]

Well, they are making cards for DirectX 10.1 I heard, I also heard that 8000 series card won't even support 10.1!!
I have a 8800 GTX 320mb, and if it won't support 10.1, Ima be pissssssssssssed >:{

Nope, Microsoft announced that all current dx10 cards will support dx10.1, since all it adds is like compulsory 4x AA and some other thing mandatory, that was already optional in dx10...

[DarkShadow]

where'd you hear that? from what I've heard the 10 card's aren't capable of supporting the changes in the API of 10.1

[Novahawk]

Here's one article: http://www.next-gen....c...24&Itemid=2