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I am really looking forward to seeing how this card performs against RV670.
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Geforce 8800GT will launch on the 29th and Nvidia will prove that it can ship the cards back to many etailers and retailers at the launch date. Do not be surprised if the 8800GT gets sold out soon after the launch as this is going to be a very sexy product and many will want to buy one.
Some people might hold their breath to see the Radeon HD 2950XT in action as it will cost roughly the same and it will launch about two weeks later, but Nvidia is walking on very solid ground with 8800 GT. This single slot card looks attractive and it should be quite fast as well.
We can confirm that the partners are making their own cards and that, at the same time, Nvidia is making reference cards for the ones who don't like to mess with Nvidia reference design. The boxes are being printed and the cards will be available at launch, on the 29th.
8800GT to be available at the launch
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We've learned a quite disturbing fact. The soon to be launched, Geforce 8800GT won?t feature support for the upcoming Triple SLI.
This will be a feature reserved only for the high-end cards but we have confirmed a few details for the this and will follow up on this one as soon as we can. It looks like Triple SLI will be a high-end card feature only and it won?t work on slower cards.
You will need a new 780i chipset to get Triple SLI operational and this chipset comes in November.
8800 GT cannot do triple SLI
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As the 8800 GT launch date draws near, more and more info about Nvidia's new mainstream powerhouse is beginning to surface.
Tomshardware.tw got hold of an 8800 GT with 512MB of GDDR3 memory and snapped a few close up photos of the GPU and memory chips.
The card uses 16 M x 32 Qimonda HYB18H512321 BF-10 GDDR3 memory chips running at 1000MHz on a 256 bit bus. Its PCB is 9 inches long, and the card is a single slot design. It uses a Cooler Master TM69 to chill the 37.5 mm x 37.5mm 65nm GPU clocked at 600MHz. The shaders run at 1500MHz.
According to the site most vendors plan to launch the 512MB version, followed later by a cheaper 256MB card.
8800GT 512MB in the wild
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Before we published "RV670 rival out - NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Global early exposure" to be published soon by the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT-related specifications and product appearance follows a briefing, then this will further demonstrate its GPU photographs and real as GDDR3 memory, and on a supplementary The article omitted relevant hardware specifications.
The GeForce 8800 GT board adopted the 10-storey G92P393 PCB production, length and height were 4.736,9.0-inch, single-card power demand of 110 W, but the PCI-Express X16 slot can only provide 75 W power, it needs an external 6 - PIN PCI-Express Power connector, if not boot using the link, warning will be issued faint buzzing sound, but the computer will not boot, occupying card positive Sing Slot radiator products for the Cooler Master TM69 (NVIDIA GeForce 6,7,8 series of public boards are used in this radiator products) , have three hot catheter design, mining 4 - PIN power connectors, cooling fans 1000 RPM rotational speed can be upgraded to 3200 RPM, the noise is 34 dB.
This board adopted eight of 16 M x 32 Qimonda (Qimonda) No. HYB18H512321 BF-10 GDDR3 memory to form 256 - bits 512MB capacity, single memory is PG-TFBGA-136 package, to 2.0 V voltage, RoHS norms, standards workers a frequency of 1.0 GHz, but only GeForce 8800 GT set to 900 MHz, perhaps reserved for users and vendors to work together overclocking space. GeForce 8800 GT on October 29 officially published, together various vendors are the first to use the 512 MB version of the card sales, and then will launch 8 x 32 M 256 MB version of the specifications.
GeForce 8800 GT video card carrying NVIO HDCP chip and the chip, as, D8P chip parts, mining 1148 - PIN FCBGA package, the size of 37.5 mm x 37.5mm, the core standard voltage is 1.05 V ± 10.5mV, set 600 clock work MHz, Shader Clock is 1,500 MHz. Now we have made on the card, the top is carrying G92-270-A2 version of a TSMC 65-nm process, the date of manufacture is 2007 the first 37 weeks.
Now NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT for the price, in accordance with different memory capacity is divided into $ 199 and 249 dollars, which is about NT 6,500 and 8,130 yuan.
G92 Core
G92 Memory Chip
G92 second pic
Translated Link
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Not really new news...But thought I would add it anyway[/b]
112 SP 8800 GTS Works w/ 96 SP 8800 GTS In SLI
Nvidia has send out a notice to their AICs making clear to them not to market the new GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB as a card featuring 112 SPs although this should be quite a good selling point. Instead, card partners can brand the card as special edition or OC edition ie. GeForce 8800 GTS OC Edition. The new 112 SP 8800 GTS will still work fine with the 96 SP 8800 GTS in SLI configuration. Nvidia stress that they will not offer 112 SP 8800 GTS in 320MB memory configurations.
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3DMark 8800 GT vs 8800 Ultra comparison
I am back from the vacation that I never told you about! Hurray! I spent several awesome days playing the totally sweet games that are contained within the confines of the Orange Box and watching some movies that I meant to see earlier, but never did. Now it is news time!
I found this lovely thread over at the Hard|Forums just now. Apparently one of the persons at Expreview has decided to (join the Hard|Forums and) post some 8800 GT vs 8800 Ultra comparison data in English. According to the data provided, the 8800 GT trails the Ultra by only 17% in 3DMark06.
Don't know if real or fake, but here it is anyway.
8800GT vs. 8800 Ultra 3DMark 06 comparison pic
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Foxconn 8800GT Specifications pic
Source link
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Dont know if these has been posted yet. But thanks to Keys for the heads up
8800GT Benchmarks
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Nvidia's original plan was to price the D8P/G92 at $ / ?299, but ATI?s aggressive pricing changed Nvidia?s mind. All the early adopters of 8800GT have to thank ATI for the 249 and 199 prices for these cards at launch.
We can now confirm that Geforce 8800GT will win against RV670XT, clocked at 825MHz with the DDR4 memory at 2400MHz. Nvidia?s chip is more powerful and faster in most of the games and synthetic benchmarks but at the same time the chip generates more heat, it's 65 nanometre and it is more expensive for Nvidia to make.
As a consumer you should not worry about these things but knowing how the new ATI thinks we can bet that RV670XT / PRO and GT will end up cheaper than Nvidia prices and this will be the way to fight Nvidia.
We also expect that ATI will make a big deal with its 55 nanometre support but we expect that a lot of press will burn ATI for the HD 3xx0 names if they decided to go down that path.
Geforce 8800GT is faster than RV670XT
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Pictures and quotes from this site........
First review of 8800GT
Pic of 8800GT
GPU-z pic
Core pic
Specs pic
Power Consumption Pic
3DMark 06 score
Card installed NICE LOOKING
3dMark 06 | NoAA NoAF
3DMark 06 4xAA 16xAF
3DMark 06 8xAA 16xAF
Quake Wars | No AA No AF
Quake Wars | 4xAA 16xAF
Episode 2 | No AA No AF
Episode 2 | 4xAA 16xAF
Stalker v1.0004 | Ultra Quality
DIRT Colin McRae Off-Road v1.1 | No AA
DIRT Colin McRae Off-Road v1.1 | 4xAA
World In Conflict DX10 | No AA No AF
Company Of Heroes O.F. DX10 | No AA
Comany Of Heroes O.F. DX10 | 4xAA
Lost Planet V1.004 Snow DX10 | NoAA NoAF
Lost Planet V1.004 Cave DX10 | NoAA NoAF
Lost Planet V1.004 Snow DX10 | 4xAA 16xAF
Lost Planet V1.004 Cave DX10 | 4xAA 16xAF
Bioshock V1.0 DX10 | Ultra-Quality
PT Boats: Knights Of The Sea DX10 | No AA
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Reference or overclocked
We found out that Geforce 8800GT comes in five possible variants and each variant has its 512MB and 256MB version.
The first, as you can imagine, is the reference design with 600MHz core and 1800MHz memory clock. The 256MB version of this card will have the memory working at 1400MHz.
The second is the reference design + SPOC, Shader Processor Overclocking and it work's with the same clocks as the reference but with faster Shader. It was not specified what should be the Shader speed but this is up to AIB's.
The third kit is called Cost down $14 +SPOC and as you can imagine the Shaders are still overclocked, the GPU and memory are the same but they all can be overclocked. This is an 8 layer PCB board.
The fourth SKU is the scary one, it is called Cost Down more than $14 +SPOC and this card comes with 6 layer PCB and 256MHz memory at 1400MHz only. This is certainly the cheapest card from this generation.
The last but not the least is simply called Native HDMI and it comes as the 512MB or 256MHz part and you can get the picture what is the focus of this card.
The launch is scheduled for Monday the 29th as we said back at the beginning of the month here and here.
8800GT has 9 possible variations
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600/1,500/1,800MHz is just the beginning
We've learned that Nvidia's 65 nanometer part known as D8P/G92, or now commercially as Geforce 8800GT, will be very overclockable.
Nvidia claims that there is a lot of space to overclock both the GPU and Shaders and it looks that 1,500MHz for Shaders is just the beginning. Many of the usual suspects will introduce their overclocked cards as this is the only way to differentiate yourself from the others.
We don?t know the limit but Nvidia endorses many to overclock the Shaders and it even plans to support the Shader overclocking in the next version of Ntune.
One thing is certain, there will be a lot of introductions on Monday.
D8P/G92, 8800GT is very overclockable
I am really looking forward to seeing how this card performs against RV670.
______________________________________
Geforce 8800GT will launch on the 29th and Nvidia will prove that it can ship the cards back to many etailers and retailers at the launch date. Do not be surprised if the 8800GT gets sold out soon after the launch as this is going to be a very sexy product and many will want to buy one.
Some people might hold their breath to see the Radeon HD 2950XT in action as it will cost roughly the same and it will launch about two weeks later, but Nvidia is walking on very solid ground with 8800 GT. This single slot card looks attractive and it should be quite fast as well.
We can confirm that the partners are making their own cards and that, at the same time, Nvidia is making reference cards for the ones who don't like to mess with Nvidia reference design. The boxes are being printed and the cards will be available at launch, on the 29th.
8800GT to be available at the launch
_______________________________________
We've learned a quite disturbing fact. The soon to be launched, Geforce 8800GT won?t feature support for the upcoming Triple SLI.
This will be a feature reserved only for the high-end cards but we have confirmed a few details for the this and will follow up on this one as soon as we can. It looks like Triple SLI will be a high-end card feature only and it won?t work on slower cards.
You will need a new 780i chipset to get Triple SLI operational and this chipset comes in November.
8800 GT cannot do triple SLI
_______________________________________
As the 8800 GT launch date draws near, more and more info about Nvidia's new mainstream powerhouse is beginning to surface.
Tomshardware.tw got hold of an 8800 GT with 512MB of GDDR3 memory and snapped a few close up photos of the GPU and memory chips.
The card uses 16 M x 32 Qimonda HYB18H512321 BF-10 GDDR3 memory chips running at 1000MHz on a 256 bit bus. Its PCB is 9 inches long, and the card is a single slot design. It uses a Cooler Master TM69 to chill the 37.5 mm x 37.5mm 65nm GPU clocked at 600MHz. The shaders run at 1500MHz.
According to the site most vendors plan to launch the 512MB version, followed later by a cheaper 256MB card.
8800GT 512MB in the wild
_______________________________________
Before we published "RV670 rival out - NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Global early exposure" to be published soon by the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT-related specifications and product appearance follows a briefing, then this will further demonstrate its GPU photographs and real as GDDR3 memory, and on a supplementary The article omitted relevant hardware specifications.
The GeForce 8800 GT board adopted the 10-storey G92P393 PCB production, length and height were 4.736,9.0-inch, single-card power demand of 110 W, but the PCI-Express X16 slot can only provide 75 W power, it needs an external 6 - PIN PCI-Express Power connector, if not boot using the link, warning will be issued faint buzzing sound, but the computer will not boot, occupying card positive Sing Slot radiator products for the Cooler Master TM69 (NVIDIA GeForce 6,7,8 series of public boards are used in this radiator products) , have three hot catheter design, mining 4 - PIN power connectors, cooling fans 1000 RPM rotational speed can be upgraded to 3200 RPM, the noise is 34 dB.
This board adopted eight of 16 M x 32 Qimonda (Qimonda) No. HYB18H512321 BF-10 GDDR3 memory to form 256 - bits 512MB capacity, single memory is PG-TFBGA-136 package, to 2.0 V voltage, RoHS norms, standards workers a frequency of 1.0 GHz, but only GeForce 8800 GT set to 900 MHz, perhaps reserved for users and vendors to work together overclocking space. GeForce 8800 GT on October 29 officially published, together various vendors are the first to use the 512 MB version of the card sales, and then will launch 8 x 32 M 256 MB version of the specifications.
GeForce 8800 GT video card carrying NVIO HDCP chip and the chip, as, D8P chip parts, mining 1148 - PIN FCBGA package, the size of 37.5 mm x 37.5mm, the core standard voltage is 1.05 V ± 10.5mV, set 600 clock work MHz, Shader Clock is 1,500 MHz. Now we have made on the card, the top is carrying G92-270-A2 version of a TSMC 65-nm process, the date of manufacture is 2007 the first 37 weeks.
Now NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT for the price, in accordance with different memory capacity is divided into $ 199 and 249 dollars, which is about NT 6,500 and 8,130 yuan.
G92 Core
G92 Memory Chip
G92 second pic
Translated Link
_________________________________________
Not really new news...But thought I would add it anyway[/b]
112 SP 8800 GTS Works w/ 96 SP 8800 GTS In SLI
Nvidia has send out a notice to their AICs making clear to them not to market the new GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB as a card featuring 112 SPs although this should be quite a good selling point. Instead, card partners can brand the card as special edition or OC edition ie. GeForce 8800 GTS OC Edition. The new 112 SP 8800 GTS will still work fine with the 96 SP 8800 GTS in SLI configuration. Nvidia stress that they will not offer 112 SP 8800 GTS in 320MB memory configurations.
__________________________________________
3DMark 8800 GT vs 8800 Ultra comparison
I am back from the vacation that I never told you about! Hurray! I spent several awesome days playing the totally sweet games that are contained within the confines of the Orange Box and watching some movies that I meant to see earlier, but never did. Now it is news time!
I found this lovely thread over at the Hard|Forums just now. Apparently one of the persons at Expreview has decided to (join the Hard|Forums and) post some 8800 GT vs 8800 Ultra comparison data in English. According to the data provided, the 8800 GT trails the Ultra by only 17% in 3DMark06.
Don't know if real or fake, but here it is anyway.
8800GT vs. 8800 Ultra 3DMark 06 comparison pic
___________________________________________
Foxconn 8800GT Specifications pic
Source link
___________________________________________
Dont know if these has been posted yet. But thanks to Keys for the heads up
8800GT Benchmarks
___________________________________________
Nvidia's original plan was to price the D8P/G92 at $ / ?299, but ATI?s aggressive pricing changed Nvidia?s mind. All the early adopters of 8800GT have to thank ATI for the 249 and 199 prices for these cards at launch.
We can now confirm that Geforce 8800GT will win against RV670XT, clocked at 825MHz with the DDR4 memory at 2400MHz. Nvidia?s chip is more powerful and faster in most of the games and synthetic benchmarks but at the same time the chip generates more heat, it's 65 nanometre and it is more expensive for Nvidia to make.
As a consumer you should not worry about these things but knowing how the new ATI thinks we can bet that RV670XT / PRO and GT will end up cheaper than Nvidia prices and this will be the way to fight Nvidia.
We also expect that ATI will make a big deal with its 55 nanometre support but we expect that a lot of press will burn ATI for the HD 3xx0 names if they decided to go down that path.
Geforce 8800GT is faster than RV670XT
____________________________________________
Pictures and quotes from this site........
First review of 8800GT
Pic of 8800GT
GPU-z pic
Core pic
Specs pic
Power Consumption Pic
3DMark 06 score
Card installed NICE LOOKING
3dMark 06 | NoAA NoAF
3DMark 06 4xAA 16xAF
3DMark 06 8xAA 16xAF
Quake Wars | No AA No AF
Quake Wars | 4xAA 16xAF
Episode 2 | No AA No AF
Episode 2 | 4xAA 16xAF
Stalker v1.0004 | Ultra Quality
DIRT Colin McRae Off-Road v1.1 | No AA
DIRT Colin McRae Off-Road v1.1 | 4xAA
World In Conflict DX10 | No AA No AF
Company Of Heroes O.F. DX10 | No AA
Comany Of Heroes O.F. DX10 | 4xAA
Lost Planet V1.004 Snow DX10 | NoAA NoAF
Lost Planet V1.004 Cave DX10 | NoAA NoAF
Lost Planet V1.004 Snow DX10 | 4xAA 16xAF
Lost Planet V1.004 Cave DX10 | 4xAA 16xAF
Bioshock V1.0 DX10 | Ultra-Quality
PT Boats: Knights Of The Sea DX10 | No AA
_______________________________________________________
Reference or overclocked
We found out that Geforce 8800GT comes in five possible variants and each variant has its 512MB and 256MB version.
The first, as you can imagine, is the reference design with 600MHz core and 1800MHz memory clock. The 256MB version of this card will have the memory working at 1400MHz.
The second is the reference design + SPOC, Shader Processor Overclocking and it work's with the same clocks as the reference but with faster Shader. It was not specified what should be the Shader speed but this is up to AIB's.
The third kit is called Cost down $14 +SPOC and as you can imagine the Shaders are still overclocked, the GPU and memory are the same but they all can be overclocked. This is an 8 layer PCB board.
The fourth SKU is the scary one, it is called Cost Down more than $14 +SPOC and this card comes with 6 layer PCB and 256MHz memory at 1400MHz only. This is certainly the cheapest card from this generation.
The last but not the least is simply called Native HDMI and it comes as the 512MB or 256MHz part and you can get the picture what is the focus of this card.
The launch is scheduled for Monday the 29th as we said back at the beginning of the month here and here.
8800GT has 9 possible variations
________________________________________________________
600/1,500/1,800MHz is just the beginning
We've learned that Nvidia's 65 nanometer part known as D8P/G92, or now commercially as Geforce 8800GT, will be very overclockable.
Nvidia claims that there is a lot of space to overclock both the GPU and Shaders and it looks that 1,500MHz for Shaders is just the beginning. Many of the usual suspects will introduce their overclocked cards as this is the only way to differentiate yourself from the others.
We don?t know the limit but Nvidia endorses many to overclock the Shaders and it even plans to support the Shader overclocking in the next version of Ntune.
One thing is certain, there will be a lot of introductions on Monday.
D8P/G92, 8800GT is very overclockable
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