NVIDIA Strikes Back with New GeForce 8900 Series -

[sgrinavi]

Sorry if this is old news, but I could not find anything here on it.

Is this the 8800GTX replacement?


http://news.softpedia.com/news...900-Series-47233.shtml

NVIDIA Strikes Back with New GeForce 8900 Series - NVIDIA is ready to deal with ATI's X2000 series
By: Bogdan Solca, Hardware Editor

It seems that ATI is well ahead of NVIDIA when it comes to GPGPUs. Still, NVIDIA is working hard on its CUDA design, which may be released with the new GeForce 8900 series.

CUDA actually stands for Compute Unified Device Architecture. It is similar to ATI's Firestream GPGPU project, apparently being a fundamentally new computing micro-architecture for the GPU, in order to solve complex computational problems across consumer, business, and technical industries. CUDA can't really work without an upcoming dual Geforce 8950 GX2 configuration, as these cards can deliver more computation power than current high-end server CPUs.

Although Nvidia entered the GPGPU market later than ATI, it looks like the Americans are quite happy with their G80 series general processing capabilities. As of now, G80 is still the fastest graphics chip on the market. It has 128 unified shaders and can process a lot of pixels. But those shaders aren't necessarily proficient at rendering complex graphics, as science calculations can easily be run on a graphics card disguised as a small shader program. Now, Geforce 8900 GTX is expected to have 25 percent more Shader power, and thus, dual Geforce 8950 GX2 configurations should provide a lot more Shader and Pixel power.

Chinese sources claim that the upcoming GeForce 8950GX2 card will sell for $599 USD. It is rumored to be the successor of the previous 7950GX2 and will come with a total of 512MB GDDR-4 memory per GPU. As part of the new 8900 series, NVIDIA plans to introduce the GeForce 8900GTX which will replace the current high-end 8800GTX. It will ship at a retail price of $549 USD and it will also see the inclusion of GDDR4 memory which allows NVIDIA to raise the clock speeds to outrageous 2200MHz frequencies. The power boost may also come from the new 80nm manufacturing process.

All this points to the fact that NVIDIA is already prepared for the AMD/ATI offensive. AMD/ATI is expected to take the covers off of their range of upcoming R600 graphics cards in a couple of weeks.

 

[KingstonU]

Yes this is at least 6 months old, G80 came out this time last year and R600 came out in late spring.

 

[sgrinavi]

Originally posted by: KingstonU
Yes this is at least 6 months old, G80 came out this time last year and R600 came out in late spring.

Ya-- I figured that. but where is the 8900 and 8950?

 

[Syntax Error]

Who said Nvidia had to follow what they have to do the same thing they did with the 7-series for the 8-series?

I'd count the 8800GT and the new G92 8800GTS as the "7900s and the 7950s" of the 8-series; in fact, it probably would've made more sense if the 8800GT and the 8800GTS were called the 8900, but I figure Nvidia thought that the "8800" had a good reputation and stigma of performance over ATI, so they kept the "name brand".

 

[s44]

Originally posted by: Syntax Error

I'd count the 8800GT and the new G92 8800GTS as the "7900s and the 7950s" of the 8-series; in fact, it probably would've made more sense if the 8800GT and the 8800GTS were called the 8900, but I figure Nvidia thought that the "8800" had a good reputation and stigma of performance over ATI, so they kept the "name brand".

Actually, they probably just wanted to be able to sell their back inventory of G80 cards. :laugh:

 

[KingstonU]

Originally posted by: s44

Originally posted by: Syntax Error

It probably would've made more sense if the 8800GT and the 8800GTS were called the 8900, but I figure Nvidia thought that the "8800" had a good reputation and stigma of performance over ATI, so they kept the "name brand".

Actually, they probably just wanted to be able to sell their back inventory of G80 cards. :laugh:

Yes I was just talking about how hard it was to convince my friend that the GTS 512 was better than the GTS 640 :roll:

 

[zagood]

That was back in Feb. Looks like sources have been pretty well discounted...take a look at the supposed pricelist...

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/...information/index.html

-z

 

[Spook]

I don't know if the sources were wrong, or if Nvidia just decided to go in another direction because of the NIL threat from AMD/ATI cards.

 

[NoStateofMind]

Originally posted by: KingstonU

Originally posted by: s44

Originally posted by: Syntax Error

It probably would've made more sense if the 8800GT and the 8800GTS were called the 8900, but I figure Nvidia thought that the "8800" had a good reputation and stigma of performance over ATI, so they kept the "name brand".

Actually, they probably just wanted to be able to sell their back inventory of G80 cards. :laugh:

Yes I was just talking about how hard it was to convince my friend that the GTS 512 was better than the GTS 640 :roll:

Don't you just hate that? When you know something for a fact and it seems they will not listen? Leave them to their sorrow I say.

 

[bryanW1995]

the biggest winners from this horrible naming convention have been people with 8800gts 640's to sell. when people see 8800gts 512 selling for $350-$400, that makes a used 640 for $300 seem like a good deal. And while we're on this subject, how do you differentiate an "older" gts 640 ssc with a 112 sp gts 640 ssc??? I'm sure that they have their reasons, but nvidia really screwed the pooch on this confusing naming convention.