Monday, January 15th 2007
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 Ultra, 8600 GT, 8300 GT and 8300 GS leaked
Nordic Hardware has posted some very detailed lists of hardware details regarding what will be entry-level and midrange DX10 cards from the green camp (NVIDIA).
Source:
Nordic Hardware
- The 8600 Ultra card will come with 64 Shaders, clocked at 500MHz. It will also have up to 512MB of 256 bit memory clocked at 1400MHz DDR. It is expected to retail for around $179.
- The 8600 GT will come with 48 shaders, clocked at 350MHz. It will have up to 256MB of 256-bit memory, clocked at 1200MHz DDR. It should retail for $129.
- The 8300 GT will have 32 shaders at 500MHz, along with no more than 256MB of 128-bit memory clocked at 1200MHz DDR. It is expected to cost around $99.
- The 8300 GS will "only" have 24 shaders, clocked around 500MHz. It will have up to 256MB of 128 bit memory, clocked at 1000MHz DDR. The card shouldn't cost much more than $79.
21 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce 8600 Ultra, 8600 GT, 8300 GT and 8300 GS leaked
People who want to upgrade in steps can always use the ASRock DUAL VSTA motherboard which supports AGP/PCIe DDR1/DDR2.
Just note that these arent Vec4 shaders like we have on the X1900s or the 7900s, but actually scalar processors like we have on the 8800s. Scalars can only do one thing at a time, and Vec4 can do.. 4. However the clocks of the SPs are much higher (for some reason.... ?)
2 ultras.... and maybe even in nforce 4 would be nice
www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp
And click 8800 drivers. You will notice there are none for Vista, there are a lot of people upset over it right now.
Edit: just saw the drivers were leaked. Still no DX10 games to test with, and thats what I really want to see. Crysis, anyone?