Tuesday, June 24th 2008
Will AMD Rain on NVIDIA's 9800GTX+ Party?
TG Daily is reporting that AMD is preparing to stoke up its GPU war with NVIDIA by unleashing overclocked HD 4850 powered solutions, in order to parry against rival NVIDIA's 9800GTX+. Apparently, by removing overclocking restrictions, AIB's will be able to offer a range of overclocked SKU's, with higher core and memory clock speeds, together with up-rated cooling solutions not being a stretch of the imagination. It is claimed that senior ATI officials anticipate overclocked SKU's to offer an increase of 50 MHz to the core clock speed, compared to currently available HD 4850 parts. Company names on the proverbial grapevine and, set to offer these solutions are, unsurprisingly, HIS, together with Sapphire Technology and Diamond. The upcoming HD 4870 isn't expected to escape pre-overclocking treatment either.
Source:
TG Daily
55 Comments on Will AMD Rain on NVIDIA's 9800GTX+ Party?
What? Overclock restrictions? Since when did GPUs have such things? I know shaders or ROPs might be 'locked,' but that's an architectural thing.
The 9600GSO, 8800GT, 8800GTS all use the same board
8800GTS512 and 9800GTX+ use the same board
9800GTX and 9800GX2 are EOL most likly.
What we should expect with the 55nm move is new cards for this likeup
What about taking the G92B putting it on an 8800GTS 512 and relabling it 280GT as Id assume GT could mean midrange. Why make a card half of the G200 when we have one for midrange. Sadly the 9600GT is not proper midrange for Nvidia this go around, its 1/4 the power of the GT200 core, much like the 8600GTS was