The New nVidia GeForce 9 Series
Here is how the situation with the so awaited new GeForce series 9 is fixed, so far. This info is most probably containing the final specs of the new cards and is presented just as nVidia marked it.
“G92″ GeForce 9800 GTX specs.
- 65nm process technology at TSMC.
- Over one billion transistors.
- Second Generation Unified Shader Architecture.
- Double precision support (FP64).
- GPGPU native.
- Over one TeraFLOPS of shader processing power.
- MADD+ADD configuration for the shader units (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 tessellation 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.
So I will have some tough time deciding whether to buy 9800GTX or GTS….the price difference is huge and maybe a SLI with 2xGTX will perform much better but who can tell us so early:) The good news for me is that I will have to wait till December and January..so there will be many tests by then and probably a slight price drop after the holidays.
So have some nice waiting dudes;)
Wow…
fake… thats the sparkle 8800gtx caliber or something along those lines but definitely the 8 series and not the 9.
The news are pretty encouraging. As you can see from some of my newer posts(and probably have heard over the net, already) – the 9th series cards are knocking on our doors. Indeed, the promised GX2 model will most probably be middle range model, or who knows. We will see….but by the summer most of the series must be out. And having in mind that the prices then are the best – this will be the time for upgrade. Single or SLI – depends on the buyer;)
OMG!!!
Good info once again! Thanks a lot:)