Rumor: GeForce 9800 specs

[A.Rafay]

By Q4 2007 (Xmas) NVIDIA will be releasing their GeForce 9800 series GPUs. Unlike previously expected the codename for nVidia's next generation GPU will NOT be "G90" but instead be "G92".

G92 will be released in November 2007 time frame in the form of "GeForce 9800" series.

"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

Pros.

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 applcations.

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.

 

[USUF]

great...now the price for the 8 series will drop significantly!

 

[Stuge]

Hmm I read these spec somewhere else as well .

Anyway ,Its time to sell my 8600GT

 

[A.Rafay]

no way keep your 8600GT for another 6-8 months...

 

[Atif]

Hoon good things specially - 512-bit memory interface.
- 1024MB GDDR4 graphics memory. The rest are almost same of 8 series.My little bro stopped me of buying 8 series card as he wanted to buy this 9800 series card.He is claver

 

[Conscript]

If they are going to release a new series every six months I did rather stick with my 360 and rather get a PS3.

 

[Atif]

- built in Audio Chip.
Rafay what is this??any idea??

 

[A.Rafay]

since 9800 is compatible with DX10.1 it will have to perform audio on Xaudio2 platform, current cards are not tested yet. so i think nvidia decided to make their own dedicated chip and not get in those worries... oh and it will give HDMI support too

 

[Atif]

HDMI support...that is nice.So it means that with that audio chip improved sound quality in games??

 

[iNF3RN0]

If they are going to release a new series every six months I did rather stick with my 360 and rather get a PS3.

This is the biggest reason for me for preferring a console, see I bought the damn E6600 for RS 20K now within 3-4 months the price drops to 12,800 <_< amd Quad core is now available for 20K!

Keeping your PC upto date is one expensive hobby :crying:

 

[A.Rafay]

This is the biggest reason for me for preferring a console, see I bought the damn E6600 for RS 20K now within 3-4 months the price drops to 12,800 <_< intel Quad core is now available for 20K!

Keeping your PC upto date is one expensive hobby :crying:

yeah now competition is too much, ppl. like us can't handle it, u have to spend a lot in order to keep up... i remember those good old days of Pentium 3 era...

 

[Atif]

That is why i prefer Mid-End GPU's as they are quite afordable and give u some fun of 8-10 month gaming.

 

[r3aper]

This is the biggest reason for me for preferring a console, see I bought the damn E6600 for RS 20K now within 3-4 months the price drops to 12,800 <_< amd Quad core is now available for 20K!

Keeping your PC upto date is one expensive hobby :crying:

yeah man......thats absolutely the truth

PC's are not meant for extreme gaming......thats what i think

 

[A.Rafay]

yeah man......thats absolutely the truth

PC's are not meant for extreme gaming......thats what i think

correction... PCs are for extreme gaming

 

[Adnan959]

PC's are not meant for extreme gaming......thats what i think

Uhh right okay ..... One reason why Crysis didn't make it to consoles is BECAUSE THEY CANT HANDLE THE INTENCE GRAPHICS.

Anyways, this is great, I didn't get an 8 series yet and I'm happy I didn't. I'll be getting a 360 first and then a new PC by the time this comes out.

 

[A.Rafay]

Nvidia made final preparations in order to send the first samples of Geforce 9800 or something that we know as G92 to its high end partners and developers.

Very few privileged people will get one that early and if all goes well there will be some G92 cards in some developers and customers PC already in September.
Nvidia is about to gather a lot of editors to tell them how good the new chips in October and the reviews and the retail launch is expected in November.

Of course this means that the G92 chip is taped out and that it works well.

 

[Stuge]

Keeping your PC upto date is one expensive hobby :crying:

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