9800GX2 delayed?

[Aberforth]

From Expreview: http://en.expreview.com/?p=233

Almost all NVIDIA?s upcoming products will be delay to March, according to our sources.

Delayed new products including 780a, 750a, 790i, 790i Ultra, and 9800 GX2. All these products should be announced in Feb, 2008. Sources did not mention the reason why NV hold the upcoming releases. And we guess that?s because of factories are running into Chinese new year holiday.

The delay will push back the war between GeForce 9800GX2 and Radeon HD 3870 X2. And that means HD 3870 X2 will be the absolutely highest product in the market, continue eating NVIDIA?s share for one extra month.

And 790i and 790i Ultra?s delay will make them directly face Intel?s X48. Also, in NVIDIA?s February product line, only GeForce 8200 will still stick on NV?s roadmap, to be released in Feb. But GeForce 8200?s rival, AMD?s 780G have been released in China few days ago.

We?ve also reported 9600GT suffering a week?s delay from Feb 14 to Feb 21, and its enemy, Radeon HD 3600 series already began selling from Jan 23.

So more time for AMD to get back in the market, nv users will have trouble boasting about their cards for some more weeks

 

[BFG10K]

I just hope for ATi's sake the 3870 X2 does launch on the 28th and is not pushed back again.

 

[chewietobbacca]

The 3870x2's original release date was the 28th anyways, they pushed it up but then back when they found bugs in the drivers

 

[dileepsv]

Any estimates as to how much the 9800's are gona cost when they come out in the market?

 

[SorryImLate]

weak

 

[Rusin]

Well if that's true that 9800 GX2 is delayed it could be also because they need time to tweak that card. If it's just two 8800 GTS 512's downclocked it will lose against HD3870 X2. Well Geforce 9600 GT is Much more important than 9800 GX2 for Nvidia.

 

[WT]

My Step Up from eVGA is going to be cutting it extreeemely close now. eVGA will add the 9800GX2 to the Step Up one week from NV's launch date, and I have 49 days left on my Step Up, putting me into the second week of March, so I may miss out on the Step Up by a week. I really do want the 9800GX2 to replace my 7950GX2, but if that falls through then I will have to settle for the 8800GT for $12 total.

 

[soccerballtux]

Originally posted by: WT
My Step Up from eVGA is going to be cutting it extreeemely close now. eVGA will add the 9800GX2 to the Step Up one week from NV's launch date, and I have 49 days left on my Step Up, putting me into the second week of March, so I may miss out on the Step Up by a week. I really do want the 9800GX2 to replace my 7950GX2, but if that falls through then I will have to settle for the 8800GT for $12 total.

:X

 

[rgallant]

Originally posted by: WT
My Step Up from eVGA is going to be cutting it extreeemely close now. eVGA will add the 9800GX2 to the Step Up one week from NV's launch date, and I have 49 days left on my Step Up, putting me into the second week of March, so I may miss out on the Step Up by a week. I really do want the 9800GX2 to replace my 7950GX2, but if that falls through then I will have to settle for the 8800GT for $12 total.

Why not the 8800gts 512, if you want the fastest card to keep for a while.

 

[Rusin]

So we know now that 9800 GX2 won't use identical GPUs compared to 8800 GTS 512 or 8800 GT. It sports two G92-450-A2's when 8800 GTS 512 has G92-400-A2 and 8800 GT G92-270-A2. Well I'd bet on that it's basically 8800 GTS 512 GPU with some tweaking on power consumption.

 

[Delta6Echo]

Originally posted by: Rusin
So we know now that 9800 GX2 won't use identical GPUs compared to 8800 GTS 512 or 8800 GT. It sports two G92-450-A2's when 8800 GTS 512 has G92-400-A2 and 8800 GT G92-270-A2. Well I'd bet on that it's basically 8800 GTS 512 GPU with some tweaking on power consumption.

If what you say is true....I'll be extremely disappointed :roll:

 

[Rusin]

Delta6Echo:
Dissapointed to what? We have known for a while that 9800 GX2 will use two G92-chips. Now we know that they won't use same G92's with this card that they used with 8800 GT. I'd bet that this G92-450 and G92-400 difference would be similar compared to G80's A2 and A3 revision difference: A3 consumed less and was better overclocker.

http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=230836

 

[imported_WhatTheHell]

NV probably wants to make a history of having 8800 GTX as the top single-GPU card for full 2 years.

Or LOL. Maybe they're working on something else entirely. But either way it sucks that GPU developement slowed down this much.

 

[TheSlamma]

So is there a 9th generation high end card on the way at all or is nVidia just gonna milk the 8800 and rename the hell out of it?

 

[Delta6Echo]

Originally posted by: Rusin
Delta6Echo:
Dissapointed to what? We have known for a while that 9800 GX2 will use two G92-chips. Now we know that they won't use same G92's with this card that they used with 8800 GT. I'd bet that this G92-450 and G92-400 difference would be similar compared to G80's A2 and A3 revision difference: A3 consumed less and was better overclocker.

http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=230836

I was expecting something completely different. I don't want them to just throw two G92 chips onto a PCB and call it the 9800 series. Why would anyone want that?

Originally posted by: TheSlamma
So is there a 9th generation high end card on the way at all or is nVidia just gonna milk the 8800 and rename the hell out of it?

That's what I want to know. According to what Rusin said above that might be exactly what they are doing. I am not going to buy a 9800 series card if it using the 8800 chipset. I'll just got for the 8800 series or an ATI card.

 

[Rusin]

Originally posted by: TheSlamma
So is there a 9th generation high end card on the way at all or is nVidia just gonna milk the 8800 and rename the hell out of it?

There is real 9th generation (GT200) coming, most likely late Q2/2008..around same time as R700. GT200 shouldn't be new architecture, but another G80 derivative; could be similar update as Geforce 6 -> Geforce 7 was. R700 will still be R600 architecture.

 

[Oyeve]

Me waits for external video solution.

 

[taltamir]

well this sucks... i want a geforce 9 (throws a tantrum)

 

[WT]

Why not the 8800gts 512, if you want the fastest card to keep for a while.

Its that blasted aura of having an oddball card like the 7950gx2 !! I LOVE a weird card like that, as opposed to a garden variety GTS card, so its pretty much GX2 or bust for me. I'm one of the few that spent an extra $100 on an ACS card from eVGA rather than go vanilla on my 8800GTS card.

Tell ya how hooked I am on the card .... I was seriously debating keeping the 7950gx2 instead of Stepping Up to the 8800GT (for $12 mind you) knowing that the 8800 would beat the 7950 card, but knowing that it was just a plain old 8800 with nothing to make it noteworthy.

Its an absolutely brainless decision for a gamer, but I am that weird A.R. guy that has color coordinated rigs components, and to me the GX2 cards just float my boat.