NVidia 9800.....

[lariz]

Rumors are all over the web of possibly leaked information on Nvidia's new video card series (9800). What are your thoughts on this?
I personally believe it's way too soon. I still have a 7900 waiting to be upgraded to a 8800GT that just came out. Now they're releasing another card that will make me question upgrading.

I wanted the most future-proof card possible, and up until now I thought the 8800GT would be the one...but reading these rumors has me questioning whether I should upgrade now, or wait till the new series of cards.


Link: Too many topics to link, just google 9800.)

Here are the leaked specs:

- 65nm process technology at TSMC.
- Over one billion transistors.
- Second Generation Unified Shader Architecture.
- Double precsion support (FP64).
- GPGPU native.
- Over one TeraFLOPS of shader processing power.
- MADD+ADD configuration for the shader untis (2+1 FLOPS=3 FLOPS per ALU)
- Fully Scalar design.
- 512-bit memory interface.
- 1024MB GDDR4 graphics memory.
- DirectX 10.1 support.
- OpenGL 3.0 Support.
- eDRAM die for "FREE 4xAA".
- built in Audio Chip.
- built in tesselation unit (in the graphics core"
- Improved AA and AF quality levels

The card will cost:
-The 9800GTX for 549$>649$
-The 9800GTS for 399$>449$

This is probably old news to most.

 

[chizow]

Probably would've been better to post a link since the stuff you're citing is dated DATE:2007-08-21 and already shown to be bunk since G92 is still 8800, for now.

Most rumors have shifted to the 9-series kicking off with a G92 GX2 with possibly a higher-end single card solution sometime later.

 

[MarcVenice]

Probably the 10th or 11th repost I've seen so far.

 

[manowar821]

Originally posted by: MarcVenice
Probably the 10th or 11th repost I've seen so far.

Ditto.

 

[taltamir]

why does constant improvement make you feel BAD about updating? sporading improvements causes me to not want to update until I know its the "right time"... if there is a new better thing comming out every three monthes then I can safely get whatever is good right now and nor worry about having a raw deal (like a person who bought a GTX the week before the 8800GT was released).

Than again, I know better then to try and futureproof computers... When the future arrives you can get something better for cheaper... buy for the now performance, not the future expectations.

 

[Cheex]

Originally posted by: taltamir


Than again, I know better then to try and futureproof computers... When the future arrives you can get something better for cheaper... buy for the now performance, not the future expectations.

I agree 100%

:thumbsup:

 

[Syntax Error]

Originally posted by: taltamir
why does constant improvement make you feel BAD about updating? sporading improvements causes me to not want to update until I know its the "right time"... if there is a new better thing comming out every three monthes then I can safely get whatever is good right now and nor worry about having a raw deal (like a person who bought a GTX the week before the 8800GT was released).

Than again, I know better then to try and futureproof computers... When the future arrives you can get something better for cheaper... buy for the now performance, not the future expectations.

I have to agree with you that most people's conception faith in the concept "futureproof" is just flawed to begin with.