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NVIDIA GeForce 9900 GTX Card Design Exposed

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The GT200 based card has a total of 16 memory chips onboard (8 chips are on the back side of the PCB), and will probably feature 1GB of GDDR3 memory. The card will be 10.5-inch long and come with a dual slot cooler manufactured by Cooler Master (model TM71).



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Screw the rest of the card, I want to see what's under the hood of the GPU itself.

I take it this will be another 8800-series amalgam of sorts? Maybe dual-GPU on a single core or something? It'd be too much to assume it's a 64bit GPU...
 
Duff-Man said:
Screw the rest of the card, I want to see what's under the hood of the GPU itself.

I take it this will be another 8800-series amalgam of sorts? Maybe dual-GPU on a single core or something? It'd be too much to assume it's a 64bit GPU...
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Yeah, the current rumor is two GPU's in a single core.

If it can use all 1GB then I'm liking it, if its a SLI contraption then I would really rather it had 1.5GB. 512MB doesn't cut it for such a high end card imo.
 
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"We finally managed to confirm a few details about GT200. This is without a doubt a single chip card, and as we said before, it's quite a big one.

The second important detail is that the chip supports 512-bit memory, and at least on the memory side it is ready to fight RV770XT.

We know that GT200 is a high-performance part and it will certainly be faster than RV770XT; but we are not sure if it will be faster than R700, a dual chip card. At this time, no one knows the answer to that.

It needs a dual slot cooler and it will dissipate quite a lot of heat, but it promises great performance."

^-- Fudzilla.

makes me happy to know its a single chip card, but it seems the new ATI XTX could be faster? or will they just stick to XT? :confused:
 
AMD abandoned all the lettering to show the model number. Now it's just numbers. Everyone still likes to put the Pro and XT on stuff for reasons unknown to me.
 
Monkeynut said:
AMD abandoned all the lettering to show the model number. Now it's just numbers. Everyone still likes to put the Pro and XT on stuff for reasons unknown to me.
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Because it sounds cool :D

I don't like the idea of using SPDIF in to add sound to HDMI. Theres no protected path = no Dolby True HD/DTS Master HD.

Looks like I may be waiting again. With ATIs solution it's still only capable of DD 5.1/DTS and not the HD formats.

I do think dual core GPUs are really a good move however. Even if they are being lazy and not designing a new architechture supporting DX10.1 and VC-1 decoding.
 
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No HDMI video output?

I thought we were leaning towards HDMI becoming the main standard of HD connection even in graphics cards.

That seems to suggest nVidia have stuck with DVI.
 
nikebee said:
No HDMI video output?

I thought we were leaning towards HDMI becoming the main standard of HD connection even in graphics cards.

That seems to suggest nVidia have stuck with DVI.
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Isnt HDMI meant for TVs and Monitors are going for DisplayPort or whatever its called? DVI can handle HDMI resolutions fine though DVI>HDMI converters, HDTV isnt actually that large a resolution. If you get a 24" monitor or abouve you are pushing out more pixels than a HDTV. Id rather have dual DVI and the possibility of twin 30" monitors than loose one to a 1080p limited HDMI port.
 
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Isnt HDMI meant for TVs and Monitors are going for DisplayPort or whatever its called? DVI can handle HDMI resolutions fine though DVI>HDMI converters, HDTV isnt actually that large a resolution. If you get a 24" monitor or abouve you are pushing out more pixels than a HDTV. Id rather have dual DVI and the possibility of twin 30" monitors than loose one to a 1080p limited HDMI port.
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Yep, Monitors and Graphics will likely go Display Port as it is HDMI without the royalty license. HDMI will still be popular though unless Display Port makes it too TV.
 
i get the feeling it wont be much quicker than the 9800 gtx

probably excel in a few games where they prefer single chip cards, might have to wait this one out. ATI might be better this time around
 
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