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NVIDIA Geforce 8950GX2/8900GTX/8900GTS/8900GT/8900GS Details + 8600/8300 Series

Mista.Gee

Mista.Gee

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Previous Thead About 8600GTS/GT:

NVIDIA has recently launched its new entry model GeForce 8800 GTS with a much lower price, but paying $350 for a graphics card is still a pretty big investment and there is certainly many who are waiting for the new mid-range cards based on the G8x architecture. These cards will be called GeForce 8600 and will just like he 8800 series, appear in many costumes. VR-Zone has now received indication that the GeForce 8600 series, or G84, will arrive in April. NVIDIA will launch two models, GeForce 8600 GTS and GT, and will cost 249USD-299USD and 199USD-249USD respectively. This is a lot more affordable and should attract a lot more customers.
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Now This:

JUST A DAY after we uncovered the existence of Nvidia's Geforce 8950 GTX and Geforce 8900 GTX, our friends in Taiwan confirmed the news. You can read our original stories here and here.

The Geforce 8950 GX2 is a dual-chip card based on a new 80 nanometre G80 chip, probably codenamed something else. Both GX2 GPUs are clocked at 550MHz and the difference is GDDR4. The card comes with 2x512MB of 256-bit GDDR4 memory clocked at 2000MHz. The card has 96 Shaders, per chip. It will be priced at $600.

The second in Nvidia's spring line-up is the Geforce 8900 GTX clocked at 700MHz GPU and 2200MHz memory. The chip still has a 384-bit memory interface and comes with 768MB of memory. The card uses a new 80 nanometre chip and has 128 Shaders. Compared to the Radeon X2800XTX it will end up shorter on clock and memory interface. You can compare them here.

The Geforce 8900 GTX is priced at $550.

Meanwhile, the Geforce 8900 GTS is a new card clocked at 600MHz GPU with 2000MHz GDDR4 memory. It supports the 320-bit memory controller and comes with 640Mb of memory. This card should cost $500 and it is using the 80 nanometre chip. This card will still have 128 Shader units.

The current king of the crop, the 8800 GTX will drop in price to $450, while the Geforce 8800 GTS loaded with 640MB of memory stays up in the $400 price range.

Nvidia has two more 80 nanometre cards. The Geforce 8900GT with 600MHz core and with a 256-bit memory interface comes with 512MB of 1800MHz GDDR3 memory. It has 96 Shaders and is built on a 80 nanometre process and will cost $400.

The 8900 GS will be the cheapest G80-based card. The 80 nanometre based beast is clocked at 550MHz core and 1600MHZ memory. The card has the 256-bit memory controller and comes with 256 or 512MB of GDDR3 memory. It also has 96 Shaders. The 256MB version will cost $200 while 512MB incarnation will end up at around the $250 price mark.
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oh my too many 8900's this year is gona be very complicated to choose

i must say the 320mb gts lasted very long its not on list are they gona take it away
 
One quick question;

I remember how the G71 used a newer manufactureing process over the G70 and am aware that this will also be the case with the G80 to G81 transition. What I'm trying to find out is if the 80nm process listed for the current 8800GTX is correct or is it simply a typo and its on the same process as the 90nm 8800GTS?

I ask as I'll be upgradeing when the new 8 series come out but am hopeing to to go for two 8800GTX's in SLi as they're supposed to drop in price to about $450 (about £270-£280ish for us) and two higher clocked 80nm GPU's with more shader processes and more RAM (though slower) should outperform a single 8950GX2 for the same cash. Looking at the current specs at least...
 
it sounds like the 8950 GX2 is gonna be pi8tted right up against the X2800 XTX

what with dual chip, 1024 MB of VRAM, GDDR4 memory etc....

Interesting that they have lowered the GTS product from 640 MB to 512... Have the lowered the bus size for that as well?
Wonder why? Surely it will be slower? Unless they have found a way to make it more efficient,.

Actually didn't they say they had a "special" and "advanced" and "updated" driver? Which would help to increase perofrmance significantly... (THIS IS PROBABLY JUST A DRIVER THAT ACTUALLY WORKS :p )
 
the 8950gtx2 sounds like its got reduced shaders, clocks bus and memory. i would argue its simply down to pcb size, pins and routing, its just too much crap to stick 2 full 8900's within such a small place. also its unlikely to be pitted against the x2800xtx as the ati series sounds likes its getting a 2 core card and thats what their "quad" crossfire is refering too. sounds like the 2 core ati card will also have lower mem bus, memory and what sound like significantly lower clocks per core supposedly 500-550 as opposed to what, 750-800 normal cores. but the 2 core card is supposed to only cost about the same as the normal top end xtx, because its got the same amount of memory, but the rest is cheaper to produce and as has been seen on recent cards the memory is the most expensive part of the gfx cards of late.

the weirdest thing of all of the nvidia specs would be the 8900gt 512 vs the 8900gs 512, $400 vs $250 for a 300mhz memory drop and 50Mhz core, especially when most likely cores will hit similar speeds, the memory(if they don't clock the same) will make a 5% maximum difference yet almost half the price.

anyone that buys a 8900gt is a complete idiot.

meh, the only issue with BOTH dual core cards coming out is they are completely worthless, lol, love the exageration i do :p

simply put, right now the 8800gtx is complete overkill unless you run OVER 1920x1200 resolution. what, unless you can run two 30" dell/apple screens no one will ever get any real use out of those cards. also you'd think sooner rather than later more games makers will start using high res textures with the massive amounts of bandwidth available on the new cards, but they've dropped the memory available on the cards, the raw power is there in brute force and bandwidth to push some seriously pretty , seriously large textures but the memory doesn't match up.
 
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drunkenmaster said:
its just too much crap to stick 2 full 8900's within such a small place. also its unlikely to be pitted against the x2800xtx as the ati series sounds likes its getting a 2 core card and thats what their "quad" crossfire is refering too.
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erm, the 8950 GX 2 IS a DUAL CHIP card, meaning it is 2 core, like the ATI one.
It will therefore be capable of "quad" SLI...
Like the 7950 GX2 now.
It therefore WILL be compared to the ATi dual core card
 
drunkenmaster said:
...the weirdest thing of all of the nvidia specs would be the 8900gt 512 vs the 8900gs 512, $400 vs $250 for a 300mhz memory drop and 50Mhz core, especially when most likely cores will hit similar speeds...
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That's what I noticed straight away. I think the 512mb version of the 8900gs will be the volt-modders card of choice in this batch. It'll probably get to current 8800gts speeds without anything but a coolbits overclock (though obviously it'll need better clock speeds as its only 256bit), but with a tweak to the voltage and it'll probably get closer to a 8800gtx speeds.
 
Cartho said:
erm, the 8950 GX 2 IS a DUAL CHIP card, meaning it is 2 core, like the ATI one.
It will therefore be capable of "quad" SLI...
Like the 7950 GX2 now.
It therefore WILL be compared to the ATi dual core card
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could read what i said, its two cores but with reduced shaders, bus, memory because its too much crap to stick 2 full cores on a card, hence they put 2 cut down cores on the card.

i was the one that said it will be compared to ati's dual core card, i think that was my entire point because they are both almost identical ideas, similar price to the top end single core, two cores but both companies have cut down the clocks, bus, memory and shaders. 1/4 less shaders + almost maybe somewhere around 1/4 lower clocks, less mem and reduced bandwidth, meh, seem utterly not worth it. again sure, there are a couple super rich people with 2x30" lcd's that might need one, but who else, really? honestly i think unless you've got a 2 metre deep desk playing a game on 2x30" lcd's would be horrible. games haven't increased dramatically graphically at all lately while the cards, although slower increases than previous years are still getting quite a bit more powerful. other than a couple horribly inefficient games(that don't look so good its worth it) nothings pushing the top end cards at all. other than benchmarking there are barely any games 99% of us would see the difference between a 8800gts and quad sli 8950x2's.
 
Does anyone know if the Geforce 8950 GX2 is going to be like the 7950 with 2 cards sandwiched together or is it going to be 2 gpu's on just one board?
 
It will be more expensive in the UK and Europe also you need higher PSU as well - wait and see when it come up, I rather stay withy my Geforce 8800GTX XXX until few years time - I cannae fork out to buy other one this year after I spend too much for 8800GTX XXX as I dont have big wallet... :D
 
braveheart said:
It will be more expensive in the UK and Europe also you need higher PSU as well - wait and see when it come up, I rather stay withy my Geforce 8800GTX XXX until few years time - I cannae fork out to buy other one this year after I spend too much for 8800GTX XXX as I dont have big wallet... :D
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I always say to myself that im happy with what I have got, then something new comes out and I just cant help myself . . . :D
 
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