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NVidia 9800.....

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lariz

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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
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I agree 100%

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

 
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