Thursday, June 19th 2008
NVIDIA Gently Intros GeForce 9800 GTX+
AMD today took a major point for the red team by positioning its brand new ATI Radeon HD 4850 cards between NVIDIA's GeForce 9 series and GTX 200 series cards. The all new HD 4850 cards beat NVIDIA's GeForce 9800 GTX while also maintaining the very reasonable MSRP of $199. Currently NVIDIA has no card that can compete in this category, but that's eventually going to change in mid-July, when the company will announce a new mid-range video card dubbed GeForce 9800 GTX+. The card will be idential to GeForce 9800 GTX from the outside, but from the "inside" it will use a smaller and more efficient 55 nanometer GPU with increased default clock/shader speeds: from 675MHz to 738MHz and from 1688MHz to 1836MHz respectively. Memory speeds for this card will be dropped slightly to 1GHz (1100MHz for GeForce 9800 GTX). Other than that the card is virtually the same as GeForce 9800 GTX, the three-way SLI support also remains untouched. NVIDIA expects to start offering GeForce 9800 GTX+ with a MSRP of $229. The company also plans to drop the price of the 65nm GeForce 9800 GTX to $199.
First card is Leadtek 9800GTX, second one is GeForce 9800 GTX+
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bit-tech.net
First card is Leadtek 9800GTX, second one is GeForce 9800 GTX+
137 Comments on NVIDIA Gently Intros GeForce 9800 GTX+
They've got a handful of cards, new and old that they can re-hash, tweak, optimizie etc. throw them in the market at whatever price point to compete against ATi, while they continue to hold flagship crowns.
I had a feeling this was going to happen.
According to this, it looks like it the same card. Just overclocked with a new sticker on the box.
But this pic shows that it is smaller
- Christine
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ GPU @ 55nm
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX GPU @ 65nm
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Daamn u nvidia, just when i had my heart set on amd , u bring this out with all the physx, cuda capabilities that i may use for my video encoding.
- Christine
Isn't it?? :wtf::confused::wtf:
wat i meant was i wanted a powerful card than 9600gt , and i was about to go amd, but now nvidia comes in cheaper unless ati is significantly better .
Go Go ATI Go Go!!!!!!
I wonder what kind of clocks it will do.. I have mine at 800/2000/2400 (core shader mem) 24/7 clocks, and 850/2100/2480 for benching.
I'm guessing you could sli one of those with one of the current 9800gtx's?
@ the topic I'd expect sapphire and powercolor to launch a clocked version of the 4850 to counter this they do have some wiggle room as the 9800gtx+ is launching at 230$ slightly above the stock clocked 4850.