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Any Rumours on when the 8800 Refresh is likely to be?

PinkFloyd

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Considering selling my current card due to lack of time for gaming.
But would be buying a high end card at the end of the summer when I head back to Uni, Hoping the 8900s will be out by then.
What dates are rumours pointing to at the moment?
 
October-ish I believe. Most likely later, not before. Although no one really knows, I'm just going from when previous refreshes were released.

EDIT: Didn't read what you were saying about the 8900s, they aren't going to be made. As said below, they are going straight to G92.
 
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There will be no 8900
This autumn they are going straight out and launching G90 - the high end ones.
Spring 2008 should see them launch the mid range G90 cards.
The Geforce 8800 Ultra was the last G80 card.
G90 is a big revamp from what I hear, with considerably better DX10 performance
 
Cartho said:
There will be no 8900
This autumn they are going straight out and launching G90 - the high end ones.
Spring 2008 should see them launch the mid range G90 cards.
The Geforce 8800 Ultra was the last G80 card.
G90 is a big revamp from what I hear, with considerably better DX10 performance
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I thought it was G92?
 
willhub said:
I thought it was G92?
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it is the G92 but the core is still a 9 series so doesnt really matter if its called a G90, i just say nextgen. But these G92 GPU's will feature pci-e 2.0 hwich is a realy pain as usual, apparently they work on regular pci-e slots but not to their full potential, oh well i guess their will be some benchies coming out that shows its performance in pci-e 2 and 1.
 
Posty said:
how much of a leap in performance will the new cards have over the current ones?
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Nobody knows. There are rumors of 1TFlop of calculating power. If that's true based on the way they've quoted Flops before then possibly as much 80% more floating point power, 50% more shaders? Basically dunno.
 
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alll speculation, not much point in going into it too much atm really, best to just wait nearer to the time when you get 'benchmarks' leaked etc etc
 
Apparently there's a Dual G80 8950GX2 coming out sometime. Have a read of this. I know it's the Inquirer and it's mostly about the GPGPU thingy, but down the bottom there is mention of the dual G80.
 
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