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G80 Stuff

Wow, that looks to be a beast. Now lets hope that they'll up their driver settings to try and get rid of some of shimmering and other nagging image quality issues that get analyzed to death on here.

Too bad they didn't go the full tilt 1GB DDR4 on the RAM though. Guess you gotta limit costs somehow, and give you room for the refresh.

Any clue on prices? I'm guessing $549/649 for the GT/GTX.
 
NVIDIA?s GeForce 8800GTX will be the flagship product. The core clock will be factory clocked at 575 MHz. All GeForce 8800GTX cards will be equipped with 768MB of GDDR3 memory, to be clocked at 900 MHz. The GeForce 8800GTX will also have a 384-bit memory interface and deliver 86GB/second of memory bandwidth. GeForce 8800GTX graphics cards are equipped with 128 unified shaders clocked at 1350 MHz. The theoretical texture fill-rate is around 38.4 billion pixels per second.
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Expect GeForce 8800GTX and 8800GTS products to launch the second week of November 2006. This will be a hard launch as most manufacturers should have boards ready now.
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I'm officially excited.

Even though I doubt this thing is going to fit into my budget until after the New Year.
 
So they went ATI ways.. After all Head NVIDIA Engineering saying Unified shaders weren't ready for prime time yet.

Anyways i will have to sell my 2x 1900XTX now ;( before sale price value goes down even more.

Hey i saw image of 8800GTX having water block , will we have an option of this on stock cooling ?
 
Either the Nvidia engineering team suddenly made a discovery


or

they threw a curve ball at ATI
 
Originally posted by: Matt2
Either the Nvidia engineering team suddenly made a discovery


or

they threw a curve ball at ATI
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I'm guessing the second. So it looks like the V-R Zone specs were true! (Most anyway). I think it's time to start saving some money each week.....
 
GTS? Why couldn't they just stick with GT? We already have far more than enough letters...

Looks great, but I'll wait until ATI's part comes out. Then we'll have a price fight.
 
Originally posted by: Aflac
GTS? Why couldn't they just stick with GT? We already have far more than enough letters...

Looks great, but I'll wait until ATI's part comes out. Then we'll have a price fight.
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I would too , when ATI card comes out we see a huge price drop or another GPU release that blows 8800GTX out the water...
 
Originally posted by: Matt2
Either the Nvidia engineering team suddenly made a discovery


or

they threw a curve ball at ATI
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Or the people who make this sh** up have no clue what's going on.

NVIDIA is pretty good at hiding what they have right up until launch.....

Sigh, I still don't have the money for a $600 uber card.
 
Originally posted by: Wreckage
Originally posted by: Matt2
Either the Nvidia engineering team suddenly made a discovery


or

they threw a curve ball at ATI
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Or the people who make this sh** up have no clue what's going on.

NVIDIA is pretty good at hiding what they have right up until launch.....

Sigh, I still don't have the money for a $600 uber card.
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Nvidia Defence Force in action...
 
Originally posted by: tuteja1986
Originally posted by: Wreckage
Originally posted by: Matt2
Either the Nvidia engineering team suddenly made a discovery


or

they threw a curve ball at ATI
Click to expand...

Or the people who make this sh** up have no clue what's going on.

NVIDIA is pretty good at hiding what they have right up until launch.....

Sigh, I still don't have the money for a $600 uber card.
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Nvidia Defence Force in action...
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Wtf? How is that defense? That's just speculation on speculation.

Kinda like your speculation here "I would too , when ATI card comes out we see a huge price drop or another GPU release that blows 8800GTX out the water... "
 
Originally posted by: sisq0kidd
Originally posted by: tuteja1986
Originally posted by: Wreckage
Originally posted by: Matt2
Either the Nvidia engineering team suddenly made a discovery


or

they threw a curve ball at ATI
Click to expand...

Or the people who make this sh** up have no clue what's going on.

NVIDIA is pretty good at hiding what they have right up until launch.....

Sigh, I still don't have the money for a $600 uber card.
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Nvidia Defence Force in action...
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Wtf? How is that defense? That's just speculation on speculation.

Kinda like your speculation here "I would too , when ATI card comes out we see a huge price drop or another GPU release that blows 8800GTX out the water... "
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I was kidding ... comment was for Wreckage
 
It's utilizing 384-bit interface. So 900MHz memory speed will yield same bandwidth as 1350MHz 256-bit memory.
 
eh?

575Mhz core clock then 1350Mhz for the unified shaders?

The core clock will be factory clocked at 575 MHz. All GeForce 8800GTX cards will be equipped with 768MB of GDDR3 memory, to be clocked at 900 MHz. The GeForce 8800GTX will also have a 384-bit memory interface and deliver 86GB/second of memory bandwidth. GeForce 8800GTX graphics cards are equipped with 128 unified shaders clocked at 1350 MHz


some kind of even more nutty seperated clocks like the G70 had between its PS and VS?

i was hopping they would use GDDR4, but to be fair GDDR3 must be in plentiful supply now and working well at 900mhz and when you got a 384bit bus (bout time we moved from 256bit) im not gonna be complaining
 
GDDR4 gives less power consumption then GDDR3. But GDDR3 is probably more cheaper then GDDR4. (Since NV needs to use 12 mem chips instead of 8, so cost will go up overall).

I dont understand the part where they say core clock or 575mhz, but its 128 shaders are clocked at 1350mhz? Anyone know what its trying to say?

Looks like the whole scalable up to 1.5ghz is true, but whats different from core clock speed to shader clock speed? Arent the two the same or im missing something.

I specualated it would have 128 shaders, 48 of them dedicated to PS while the other 96 is unified GS/VS. But do they mean its all unified among the 128 shaders?

Things are getting interesting!

note - the water cooling should be an option.

edit - otispunkmeyer, just like you i have no idea whats going on with the clock speed.

Furthermore, the G80 boards will be nine inches long and PSU reccomendation for the cards are 450W (GTX) 400W (GTS). For 8800GTX SLi, They reccomend a 800W PSU.

They promise a hard launch 2nd week of Nov, as the board partners are beginning to stock pile them for the launch.

This is great!


 
Originally posted by: StrangerGuy
Why such an odd 256-bit + 128-bit memory bus config?
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Im not an expert at this, but check out the B3D thread on G80. They are many suggestions on why they chose this route. But the real anwser will be when G80 is launched.
 
Originally posted by: aggressor
Now I want to see benchmarks 🙁
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It's just 3D Mark scores but knock yourself out: click.

And what's really amazing is, these specs look just like the ones that were leaked on vr-zone and started that 'G80 Demystified' thread.

BTW, the Dailytech article says that nvidia recommends a 400W PSU for the 7950GX2 and 450W PSU for the 8800GTX. The 7950GX2 consumes about 140W, which makes the 8800GTX around 190W, right? Not the monstrous 250-300W number that has been floating around for ages?
 
i dont like how cut back 8800GTS is, i prefer GT to GTS too 🙂

it would be more interesting if it was just lower clocks as opposed to lower + less eeverything
 
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