Geforce 9 Series coming this Feb

CP5670

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A representative for NVIDIA would comment that the performance increase between GeForce 9600 and GeForce 8600 is "almost double."

That isn't saying much at all. It will probably still end up trailing the current 8800GT in many games and will have to be priced substantially lower.
 

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Actually, in hampster's link, there is supposedly 10.1 support.

"NVIDIA publicly confirmed other details of D9M: DirectX 10.1 support, Shader Model 4.0, OpenGL 2.1 and PCIe 2.0 support just to name a few."
 

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This is good news for the graphics market.

Sounds like a new high-end (D9E) in March with almost double the performance of the 8800GT(S).

:thumbsup:
 

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Originally posted by: CP5670
A representative for NVIDIA would comment that the performance increase between GeForce 9600 and GeForce 8600 is "almost double."

That isn't saying much at all. It will probably still end up trailing the current 8800GT in many games and will have to be priced substantially lower.

To me it says the card will most likely have 64 shaders, and is basically what the 8600gts should have been. So no, it's not in the same league as the 8800-series, unless Nvidia is spreading misinformation again.
 

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This is the same tech you see in the 8800GT.

No new cards this year then. They might add more SPs but that won't do much on a 256-bit bus anyways.
 

CP5670

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Eh, I want a high end card but couldn't care less about an SLI based model. Although it's interesting that they are calling it a 9800. This along with the fact that the 9600 does not support DX10.1 suggests that the 9 series will consist of G92 derivatives and have no architectural changes. It looks like Nvidia is following AMD and giving these cards a new gen name for no reason. :p
 

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Originally posted by: PCTC2
Originally posted by: vhx
Nice. Now they just need to release the 9800GX2's. ;P

EDIT: http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/...zOSwxLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzd

looks like two 8800GTS (G92) shoved together....
256SP (128/GPU), 1GB RAM (512/GPU), 2 65nm GPUs.... only 30% faster than the 8800 Ultra....

Meh... I'm not impressed at all if this is true, I wouldn't even call it the 9-series. It's basically a 8800gx2. Although I wouldn't put it past Nvidia if this was one big misinformation campaign.
 

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Originally posted by: CP5670
Eh, I want a high end card but couldn't care less about an SLI based model. Although it's interesting that they are calling it a 9800. This along with the fact that the 9600 does not support DX10.1 suggests that the 9 series will consist of G92 derivatives and have no architectural changes. It looks like Nvidia is following AMD and giving these cards a new gen name for no reason. :p

Well the only reason would be that they have already complicated the 8-series to the point of no return. So...

Just start on the 9-series....

:D
 

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The new 9600 card will have DX 10.1 support.

Just use some common sense. Double the performance of the 8600, but no DX10 support would be very foolish of Nvidia.

I'll be looking like a hawk at the new cards coming out.

Can they even push single cores any more? Just how the CPU has moved to multi-cores, I see the GPU making the same push.
 

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Originally posted by: tigersty1e
The new 9600 card will have DX 10.1 support.

Just use some common sense. Double the performance of the 8600, but no DX10 support would be very foolish of Nvidia.

I'll be looking like a hawk at the new cards coming out.

Can they even push single cores any more? Just how the CPU has moved to multi-cores, I see the GPU making the same push.

I agree. Especially with the whole 9800GX2 idea Nvidia is bringing.

They need to however, design a genuine dual-core GPU instead of a SLI-based dual GPU setup.
 

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Originally posted by: tigersty1e
Can they even push single cores any more? Just how the CPU has moved to multi-cores, I see the GPU making the same push.

Stream processors are roughly equivalent to cores. GPU's are already massively parallel.
 

Munky

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Originally posted by: MrPickins
Originally posted by: tigersty1e
Can they even push single cores any more? Just how the CPU has moved to multi-cores, I see the GPU making the same push.

Stream processors are roughly equivalent to cores. GPU's are already massively parallel.

Can we get a sticky or something that says this in bold text? It's ridiculous how many times this fact needs to be pointed out.