Wednesday, October 31st 2007
NVIDIA Planning More from the G92
After the success of the new GeForce 8800 GT, it looks like NVIDIA could have another card based on the same G92 core planned for later this year. Dubbed the new 8800 GTS (yes, I know it's confusing - hopefully that will change) the new G92 card will feature 128 shader units instead of the 112 on the 8800 GT, which would suggest they could well exist on current 8800 GT cards and have been disabled for marketing or yield purposes. As it features a 256-bit memory interface it will go back to the more common 512MB and 1024MB memory blocks, and given how impressively the 8800 GT performs it's expected it may be able to surpass NVIDIA's 8800 GTX and possibly even the Ultra - NVIDIA's two best cards. The card is expected to launch just after AMD's Radeon HD 3800, and could well spoil the show for AMD if it performs as well as the speculation suggests.
Source:
DailyTech
35 Comments on NVIDIA Planning More from the G92
after releasing a 8800 GT a few weeks ago, now they are releasing another 8800GTS which i now dub thee 'Big Daddy Edition' of all 8800GTS's?!?!?!
they have got to cut down with the names & new models which have very little difference from the old versions
Perhaps Farcry 2 and Project Offset but everything else is pretty much just console ports.
nVidia AND intel bashing it from both sides...
8800 GTS 320MB 320BIT
8800 GT 256MB 256BIT
8800 GTS 640MB 320BIT
8800 GT 512MB 256BIT
8800 GTX 768MB 384BIT
8800 GTS 512MB 256BIT "big daddy" (FreedomEclipse quote)
8800 Ultra 768MB 384BIT
8800 GTS 1024MB 256BIT "big daddy"
Oh and that's my speculation of the speed order :) Will be VERY confusing end of the year.
Anyone have any idea? Now I'm definetely holding up my purchase of the 8800GT, anyway, wasn't going to be able to use it until Nov. 12, as I'm waiting for the nForce 780i mobos to come out... Just that I wanted to spread out my expenses over two months...
Geez, the things we are seeing now, its been many years since so much power has been available for the masses, what with Intel cheap Q6600 procs being capable of OCing beyond the more expensive parts, and with nVidia mainstream parts reaching the performance of parts almost 2x their price!
Seems like both nVidia and Intel have taken upon themselves to bring this revolution to the mainstream, and AMD can do nothing but lower the prices of their products, which is good for the consumer in the end!! :toast: There's not been such an exciting time to upgrade in many years! :rockout:
|That would be the dumbest thing EVER! Why would you get a card with lower memory, lower bus speed and more SPs? There will be an improvement, but it won`t be worth the money.|
Shoot, tell that to the people considering trading in their current cards for GTs, let alone a new GTS.
|There's not been such an exciting time to upgrade in many years!|
Oh, just wait for Nehalem chips and 9800 cards next year, indeed exciting!
Apparently this GTS with 128 shader units, 256 bit interface and 512 or 1024mb is false, or at least it's not slated for production..yet.
The GTS that might be coming soon is a revised G80 (not G92) 640MB (no 320s). An internal SP will be enabled bringing the shader units up to 112, but no VP2 and other features found in the G92.
This seems to make more sense, so that the revised GTS will move into the bottom rankings of the 8800 G80 or newer GPUs, with the GT in the middle, and GTX still on top. The 320 versions are already on end of life status, and so too will be the original GTS.
It's not to say that there won't be a G92 GTS, but it may not appear until sometime after ATi's launch.
Personally, I don't expect anything at this point, because the GT got promoted ahead of time, yet any new GTS or GTX is very short of information. We know more about the 9800s than either of those two.
If they had just sight 'alright, we've got a new architecture "G92" and we're going to use that to rerelease the GTS and GTX as well as a new upper end card the "GT."' Then that seems entirely logical. Basically saying, we want to keep customers, and keep them happy, as well as keep them at the top of their game while holding off ATi until we release the 9800s.
I'm hoping this G80 revised GTS never makes it to the table, and they just make the G92 GTS and GTX and leave it at that.