Friday, April 18th 2008

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT Info

Several news sources wrote today that NVIDIA is planning to advance the process technology of its G92 GPUs to the 55nm node in July, in order to lower costs and increase core clocks. The 55nm G92 GPUs will be codenamed G92b and most probably will make their first debut under the name GeForce 9800 GT. Codenamed G92-280 the GeForce 9800 GT cards will also use a new P393-C00 PCB that supports Hybrid Power, a feature that allows integrated graphics if presented to take control of the system when in 2D environment, and switch back to the main video card when a 3D application is started. There will be 256MB and 512MB GDDR3 versions clocked at 900MHz and 975MHz respectively. The core clock speeds have not been determined yet, but according to VR-Zone the cards will be clocked higher than the current stock GeForce 8800 GTs (default speed: 600MHz).
Sources: VR-Zone, DigiTimes
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14 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT Info

#1
jbunch07
still no gddr4 huh?
i wonder why they wont move to gddr4? or is that an ATi only thing?
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#3
X-TeNDeR
G92b?
I'll wait a bit more, to G92c :laugh: (any rumored specs for G92d??)
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#4
choppy
jbunch07still no gddr4 huh?
i wonder why they wont move to gddr4? or is that an ATi only thing?
gddr4 doesnt offer that much of an improvement over gdd3, if it did then all high end cards would incorporate it. and probably it costs a fair bit more than gddr3. gddr5 is coming along shortly isnt it?

i think i might hold out fo a card like this if its cheap
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#5
jbunch07
choppygddr4 doesnt offer that much of an improvement over gdd3, if it did then all high end cards would incorporate it. and probably it costs a fair bit more than gddr3. gddr5 is coming along shortly isnt it?

i think i might hold out fo a card like this if its cheap
gddr4 usually allows for higher clock speeds though
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WarEagleAU
Bird of Prey
Haha, funny X-TenDeR. Im not sure if GDDR4 is ATI only, but I think Nvidia believes its not worth the jump and jump in price (though I mean, come on with the price point). GDDR5 maybe the next move for them...
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#7
jbunch07
WarEagleAUHaha, funny X-TenDeR. Im not sure if GDDR4 is ATI only, but I think Nvidia believes its not worth the jump and jump in price (though I mean, come on with the price point). GDDR5 maybe the next move for them...
yea thats what i was thinking but i think ATi's 4xxx series will have gddr5 but thats just rumored specs but im not sure...

o well what ever works for nvidia
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#8
Weer
Jesus Christ. For a second there I thought the CORE clock was going to be 975Mhz.
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#9
jbunch07
WeerJesus Christ. For a second there I thought the CORE clock was going to be 975Mhz.
well u can get 900 on gddr4 prob even more with gddr5
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#10
Weer
jbunch07well u can get 900 on gddr4 prob even more with gddr5
You can get 1100 on GDDR3, easily. But I was talking about the core GPU clock.
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#11
jbunch07
WeerYou can get 1100 on GDDR3, easily. But I was talking about the core GPU clock.
so was i...some of the 3870's core clock can reach 900 with an unlocked bios mod
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#12
Mussels
Freshwater Moderator
well my 8800GT is running at 755 core, 1000 ram. (not in sig cause i havent tested it fully yet) dont see how this argument really is relevant?

Anyway, DDR4 isnt out because its expensive and they'd need to redesign the cards - ATI ran into a shortage problem at one point with the 2900XTX, which is why it was scrapped. Nothing would be more annoying than having a winner of a card, and no ram to put on it...
anyway these are only mid range cards! DDR3 is fine for this price point.

I really want a good SLI board now, two of these + hybrid power...
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#13
FBL
9800GT super +1GB

I really like this HP Nvidia OEM single 9800GT super +1GB
I think it's alot better than I was thinking it would be.
Stock 11,800 with 25MHz more in each GPU/MEM/Shader each time it jumps score 200 points.

12,500-13,200 is 3Dmark 06 with patches.

I am stable at gaming for hrs at these clocking.

GPU 600@665
MEM 1800 @1950
Shader 1.5@1.565

I got my setup at HP in July most software called the die 65 until software updates can see the 55nm die never troubles. overall i give HP 7.8 overall for setup. I added monitor sound card and spekers
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#14
MKmods
Case Mod Guru
lol, since it was you that brought this thread back to life Im not real pleased with the 9800GT.
www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121268

( 3DMark 06 scores are pretty close to my 9600GTs)
So this one has the 2 SLI connections on each card (a la Tri SLI) but wont run tri sli. What was the point of making a card with 2 sli connections if it cant make use of Tri Sli?
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