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G92 scores 10k in 3DMark06

G92 to be made out of sugar and powered by love

That's right, you heard it here first! Make sure and link it everywhere so we pull in loads of traffic!
All I saw there was a random graph and no link, looking at that pclife forum didn't bring up any immediate claims of evidence.
Curse the rumour mill in the world of hardware!!!
 
vr-zone, fudzilla and dailytech said that is a 256bit gpu with the same range of a 8800 GTS... only the Inq claims that is a 384bit gpu a little more powerful than the ultra... eitherway is not the monster that we were expected...
 
I got bored of all the speculation around next gen stuff :( Soon as Nvidia says what it is, then great.. until then... pure speculation.

Matthew
 
again il say this:

WHY would they release a MID RANGE CARD before christmas? that would be really REALLY foolish of them. there is a massive market, me included, that would buy the top range card on release day.

if this is coming out november, then its simply a refresh of the 8800 gtx/ultra, NOT one of the newer cards. in which case i wont be buying it at all, as i intend on buying the 9800 gtx.
 
easyrider said:
Is it?

Wonder how much it will be and how much faster than the 8800 GTS now?

Tonight I bought a 640 GTS for 206 quid and will clock it and get similar results in games as the GTX I bought last november.

Who says it will be as fast as the GTX?

I would have thought it would have to be faster in order for people to upgrade their current 8800 GTS's

Having said that though the GTS i just bought is a stop gap card
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£206, from where? Brand new or off the bay?
 
lowrider007 said:
so whats going then, ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, is the g92 that is appearing hopefully in november the uber high end version or what ?:confused::(.
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Inq reported a couple of weeks ago that it will be high end (ill try and find the link) Its mean to take out the GTS card but its going to be more powerfull then the GTX/Ultra so they say.

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Here is it.

G92 is a high-end chip, sports 384-bit controller


RUMOUR HAS IT that upcoming G92 is a mainstream chip, not the high-end refresh that the net has been wibbling about.

Well, we can tell you that this rumour is nothing else but a bit of good old FUD, since either G92 is a high-end refresh or the company decided that a replacement for 8800GTS will be significantly faster than GeForce 8800 Ultra, leaving its high-end offering in shambles.


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The company has already had some revisions of the board sent to their favourite game developers and other partners, and we can now tell you that the board is almost identical to old 8800 GTX/Ultra ones.
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Ill believe it when I see it.
 
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ergonomics said:
again il say this:

WHY would they release a MID RANGE CARD before christmas? that would be really REALLY foolish of them. there is a massive market, me included, that would buy the top range card on release day.

if this is coming out november, then its simply a refresh of the 8800 gtx/ultra, NOT one of the newer cards. in which case i wont be buying it at all, as i intend on buying the 9800 gtx.
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However great it would be if it was a high end card. Nvidia are currently missing out on an even bigger market which ATi hold the ground for right now.

Not everyone has the amounts of money to buy a top end card for christmas, it would be better for them to release a nice middle range card instead of something that costs £450-£500 on release.

They will also want to maximise the sales of the 8000 series.
 
I know it is wait and see but according to Nvidia:

"G92 is the successor of the current G80 GPU and according to Michael Hara, vice president of the "green" company, the chip will be ready by Christmas 2007. This means that NVIDIA will try to update their high-end graphics card sector every fourth semester in the years to come. This release cycle was adopted with the G80 GPU last year, leaving the mid-range and low-end products for a spring release"

and:

"NVIDIA also claims that the upcoming G92 is set to break the 1 Teraflops barrier. The 8800 is capable of about 330 Gflops, which means the green team is suggesting that the 9800 could be three times more powerful."

I would imagine Nvidia will release the top end version first to cash in on all those with the money who want the latest and fastest and the lower and mid end to come out in Spring 2008. That way they will make the most money.

IMO I can't see the company releasing the mid range card which would stop them selling any 8800 GTS and GTX cards as that is commercial suicide.
 
Also found this:

""G92" GeForce 9800 GTX 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

Pros.

65nm process will allow for better yields and better power consumption. power consumption will be lower than that of a GeForce 8800 GTX.

GeForce 9800 GTX will be over two times faster than a GeForce 8800 Ultra in real world games and applcations.

Release date : November 2007. There will be TWO products at launch: The flagship GeForce 9800 GTX and the second fastest GeForce 9800 GTS.

price for the GeForce 9800 GTX will be 549-649 USD.

price for the GeForce 9800 GTS will be 399-449 USD"

On the usual rip off britain price charging, it looks like the GTS will be more money than the 8800 GTX :eek:
 
ergonomics said:
again il say this:

WHY would they release a MID RANGE CARD before christmas? that would be really REALLY foolish of them. there is a massive market, me included, that would buy the top range card on release day.

if this is coming out november, then its simply a refresh of the 8800 gtx/ultra, NOT one of the newer cards. in which case i wont be buying it at all, as i intend on buying the 9800 gtx.
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I really hope it is a top range card. I need to upgrade my graphics card and it doesn't seem like the 8800GTX can handle 1920x1200 at decent speeds on the newest games.

Perhaps what we might see is a slightly faster 8800 chip, but two of them together 7950 style?
 
I agree, I swear at my monitor when I see people posting "yeh mate the 8800gtx will run anything at 1920x1200" :rolleyes:, o.....k......, I'm really feeling the strain with my card playing the newer games out these days, the ports in particular, ok I know it's down to bad programming but it's nothing a next gen card could cure with a bit of brute force :D.
 
Im fine with it being a tier 2 performance card... Not like 8800GTS is really midrange... 8300 is entry, 8500/8600 is mid, 8800's range from high to enthusiast.

An 8800GTS considerably outperforms a 7900GTX, so if G92 is supposed to fill the same price bracket as 8800GTS, that puts it at high end, but not the extreme/enthusiast/more money than sence category.

A next gen card positioned at that level should outperform 8800GTX.

On the other hand, if they make it a half step.. like from 7800-7900 (IE 8900GTS), then perhaps a process shrink, some minor improvements, a small step up from 8800GTS but still below the GTX... it might would still probably sell well.

As a process shrink, it will hopefully use less power even with its additional transistor overhead, and offer us penny pinching 'world saving' power efficient nutcases a new card to drool over, which wont 'cost the earth' in terms of carbon footprint, power usage etc etc bla bla bla.

Only a very small number of people buy the GTX's and even less buy Ultras... Of course the big sellers are the Entry level cards.. but ignore those. a lot of people go for the 'second' best model, as a good balance between price and performance.. An 8900GTS would surely be a great christmas seller.

As a 7900GTO owner... Im definatly hoping for a card with 8800GTS+ performance without sucking up quite so much electricity ;)
 
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