Wednesday, March 26th 2008
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX Cards on Sale
Although official release of the card is still scheduled for April Fools' Day, a number of European retailers are already listing NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce 9800 GTX graphics card for pre-order. There are offerings from a number of companies including ASUS and Gigabyte, but the cheapest so far looks to be Palit's card, which has been given a price tag of €273 (about $430). The card comes equipped with a G92 core running at 675MHz, 128 stream processors at 1688MHz and 512MB GDDR3 memory at 2200MHz. The card is on sale at German site ComputerHandlung.de, and is listed under the XpertVision brand name.
Source:
TechConnect Magazine
14 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX Cards on Sale
I was hoping they were gonna go to a new core design for the 9000 series. Espesially after naming the G92 GTS a 8000 series.
and its fine that they went to the 9000 series for the g92, but why couldnt they take the g92 GTS up to a 9000 then. It doesnt make sense.
Why rename a product that is already on the market? It doesn't make sense to do that, unless you are ATi of course. The simple fact is that nVidia had already released the G92 in the form of the 8800GT and already announce the 8800GTS and was read to release it when ATi suddendly decide to move on to the next series. It was a rather confusing time, with one company planning to stay in the same series and another moving on.
Personally I don't think either should have moved onto the next naming series. The RV670 cards should have been the 2950 series, and the G92 cards should have been the 8900 series. That is what has happened in the past, and it worked.
However, ATi knew they were behind, and decided that marketting an entirely new series would make them seem better. When in reality it was just a die shrink.
At least nVidia reworked their core for the new series.
I think both companies should have stuck with the level they were at and moved up at the next step. The only thing for me is that they have G92's that are 8000's and g92's that are 9000's now. They never made a 55nm 2000 series. Thats what Im getting at
Regardless, these new GTX's should be pretty nice. I was thinking they were gonna make this change awhile back when they did the GTS. And like you said, I would wait for the release day, as prices should set at MSRP pretty quickly
wasnt changes that warrented a model change,BUT they needed to do it to make it clear this wasnt the same card as the 2900.
nvidia have used the same core in 8800 and 9600/9800 cards now, utterly stupid, only an nvidiot wouldnt see how stupid this is, they could have just called the card the 9 seirse from the start BUT then they wouldnt have been able to use 9800gx2/gtx for their top cards that came out months after the 8800gt.......
nvidia sucks, i got an 8800gt, i have to hack the new drivers to get them to work on the 8800gt dispite it having the same core as the 9600/9800 cards, because nvidia is fucking over anybody who dosnt got a 9 seirse......screw them......