How many shader units?

btarunrHow many shader units?

That was going to be my question. My guess is 32.

What's the point? 9600 prices are already lower than that of the 8800GTS, for example.
Getting beyond a joke to me, they'll end up doing what they did to the 8-series in about a quarter of the time...expanding the range downwards..

ExavierWhat's the point? 9600 prices are already lower than that of the 8800GTS, for example.
Getting beyond a joke to me, they'll end up doing what they did to the 8-series in about a quarter of the time...expanding the range downwards..

That is exactly what they want to do with the 9 series, and what they do with all their series. They start high and expand downward.

The 9600 prices aren't supposed to be higher than the 8800GTS prices, what does that have to do with anything? The 9600GT performs worse than the 8800GTS too, which is why the price is justified.

The G96 is meant to replace the sub-$100 cards in the 8000 series.

GDDR2?! :wtf:

Something tells me this will be their new "value" card

newtekie1That was going to be my question. My guess is 32.

64 shaders I think I read somewhere, effectively a downclocked 9600GT with DDR2 and the smaller memory bus, I will try and find the article, it was in a UK online PC magazine.

Wow, the people that have not yet realised that, yes this is a value chip, must be pretty slow off the mark here.
All graphics companies sell much much more in the mainstream ranges, so it's important to have good products at lower price ranges. For a regular consumer, a 128-bit bus, GDDR2 RAM and low clocks, are just fine, as long as it keeps the price low, and doesn't kill performance to the point that they could have just bought an FX 5200 instead, and gotten the same effect.
If it's using the 9600 GT's core, but slower, it should perform well, might come close to the HD 3850, and should definately be a performance increase from the 8600 GTS, let alone the 8500 GT.

not on a 128bit bus it wont preform as good