Is Nvidia planning on intro new 8xxx series for mainstream?

[nyker96]

see title.

 

[Gautama2]

Of course they are.

We have no information.

 

[poohbear]

saw reports of february or march, they were'nt definitive though, just "analysts".

 

[Corporate Thug]

i'm hypothesize that 8600GT performance will roughly equal 7900GTX

 

[schneiderguy]

the 8600gt will probably have half the pixel shaders or whatever nvidia calls them, half the memory bus width, and half the memory, at least that's how nvidia has done it the last two generations

based on that it would have 64 shaders, a 192 bit memory bus confused:?) and 384mb of vram (although I wouldnt be suprised if it just had 256mb of vram)

 

[SolMiester]

Originally posted by: Corporate Thug
i'm hypothesize that 8600GT performance will roughly equal 7900GTX

With the image quality of the 88xx series...

 

[Cookie Monster]

Yep, nVIDIA is planning to release 9 more different G8x variants.

Possibly 8600GT and 8600GS. As per traditional the 8600GT might look something like this compared to the 8800GTX

80nm
much lesser transistor count than G80 (so maybe around 450~?) therefore smaller die size and hopefully the memory requirements means smaller PCB length.
Core clock somewhere between 500~600 (shader core will be twice this)
64 unified shaders
16 TMUs
12 ROPs
192bit (128 + 64)
384mb of ram. GDDR3 since GDDR4 is too expensive for mid/low end cards.
Price will most probably be $199 like all other x600 series release from nVIDIA hopefully. It will be a great mid range card if it could rival the 7900GTX in performance which it probably will. Add DX10 into the mix as well.

I actually think the low end 8200 series might actually perform around 7600GT levels. (32 unified shaders or less still means more ALUs than the G73 equivalent and much more faster due to insanely clocked shaders)

 

[TanisHalfElven]

Originally posted by: Cookie Monster
Yep, nVIDIA is planning to release 9 more different G8x variants.

Possibly 8600GT and 8600GS. As per traditional the 8600GT might look something like this compared to the 8800GTX

80nm
much lesser transistor count than G80 (so maybe around 450~?) therefore smaller die size and hopefully the memory requirements means smaller PCB length.
Core clock somewhere between 500~600 (shader core will be twice this)
64 unified shaders
16 TMUs
12 ROPs
192bit (128 + 64)
384mb of ram. GDDR3 since GDDR4 is too expensive for mid/low end cards.
Price will most probably be $199 like all other x600 series release from nVIDIA hopefully. It will be a great mid range card if it could rival the 7900GTX in performance which it probably will. Add DX10 into the mix as well.

I actually think the low end 8200 series might actually perform around 7600GT levels. (32 unified shaders or less still means more ALUs than the G73 equivalent and much more faster due to insanely clocked shaders)

thats how it would be if history was followed. i can't wait.

ps. when you said x600 it took me a few minutes to untangle myself. good job

 

[YoungGun21]

Try closer to $300 or more. This is new technology... you won't see anything new close to $200 for a while.

 

[Cookie Monster]

Yeah, i meant the likes of 6600, and 7600 series from nVIDIA therefore x600 etc.

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

Looking forward to an upgrade from a 6800

 

[tuteja1986]

Late aprilish or early May the earliest. People thinking of feb launch are crazy ;( ...