New 8800 GTS price + info

hbunny · 16 Nov 2007 at 15:21

I was thinking about pulling the trigger on a GT to replace my ATI X1950XT (1920x1200), but I think I'll wait a little and see how the new GTS performs. Looks to be a good time to consider an upgrade with all this activity on the red and green teams.

sniper007 · 16 Nov 2007 at 15:23

bandit said:
currently have a Nvida QuadrFX550 hardware DX7) in my rig (XP64bit, 2180@2400, 2gbram, D35P mpoard, antec P180 case)

really deperate for a decent card, but i need to wait i think till mid december!

Yeah I agree. Mid december best bet. Thing is...you can wait around forever wit htis sort of thing. When you come to buy then something else will be rumoured such as 9*** series or something. Still... good times for buyer.

evanswolves82 · 16 Nov 2007 at 15:25

Have been waiting for this card to come out to replace my Sparkle 7900GS and it is almost here

(hopefully anyway

). Have got £300 burning a hole in my pocket haha so hope it wont be anymore than that

bandit · 16 Nov 2007 at 15:28

sniper007 said:
Yeah I agree. Mid december best bet. Thing is...you can wait around forever wit htis sort of thing. When you come to buy then something else will be rumoured such as 9*** series or something. Still... good times for buyer.

well at the moment i'm waiting for the stocks of both the 3870 and 8800gt to settle, and see what the real prices are once the fanboys have got their orders in.

around mid december, i think the prices should settle, and we should see another iteration of drivers which should give us a better understanding of performance.

LoadsaMoney · 16 Nov 2007 at 15:33

MHayes said:
512mb of RAM

I know RAM is expensive and it seems there are cheaper was to make the card faster but I just hate it how they seem to go forward in some aspects and then back in others, I know it isn't a top end card but still...

This is also why i don't think we will see a GTX. The G92 chip doesn't seem to look to be able to handle a larger memory int.

Theres a 1gb G92 GTS to.

Greebo · 16 Nov 2007 at 15:41

rumour to be a 1gb 8800gt out soon by some manufacturers too.

silent knight · 16 Nov 2007 at 17:17

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umour to be a 1gb 8800gt out soon by some manufacturers too.

Really??? where the hell you hear that?? if its true, then i wanna know more.......
that could be the bad boy ive been waiting for!

Flammy · 16 Nov 2007 at 17:37

Kemik said:
The replies to that thread are funny. Not sure if it's jut bad English or bad typing

Its Singaporean patois type thing, they say 'lah' a lot after sentences, a lot of people in Asia talk like that...

LoadsaMoney · 16 Nov 2007 at 17:41

I dunno, i cant see it being that much faster than the GT tbh, as if you remember the GTX has the same amount of streams (128), and the GT is around GTX in performance, so i cant see the new GTS being a huge amount faster, not if the GTX and Ultra we got now aint all that over the GT, and the GT also has the same amount of texure stuff as the new GTS as well, so GTS is really just a higher clocked GT with a few extra streams, still doesn't bother me, happy bunny with my GT, ideal at my res to of 1280x1024, getting GTX performance outa mine at that res, and it kicks ass. :cool:

Greebo · 16 Nov 2007 at 18:11

silent knight said:
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Really??? where the hell you hear that?? if its true, then i wanna know more.......
that could be the bad boy ive been waiting for!

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/10/23/nvidia-boards-8800gt-launch

A few other places refer to it as well but you may need some salt

Most places state December for release of a 1gb 8800gt.

Makes sense if they do.

Lightnix · 16 Nov 2007 at 19:11

'It will have 32 TMU units'

But the 8800 GT has 56 (supposedly). o_O

http://www.gpureview.com/geforce-8800-gt-card-544.html

r0cky · 16 Nov 2007 at 19:24

FrankJH said:
Surely that leaves a huge performance gap in the market? (Ie there doesnt seem to be any card in performance terms between an old GTS at best and an old Ultra ....

Nvidia hasn't released everything yet... Also, who cares about old cards? ;-)

Lightnix · 16 Nov 2007 at 19:49

Yeah, aren't there G98 and G96 on the way, too?

Vir · 16 Nov 2007 at 22:01

think they will probably not release the 9xxx series this year, could be wrong though.

From the new 8800GTS pic we can prove that: the new G92 already integrate NVIO chip into the GPU. the old version stock cooler will not fit G92 anymore.

Then what about the new G92 version 8800GTS? Of course the G92 version 8800GTS still have 256bit memory interface, so they got 512MB and 1024MB two version. The date and the MSRP will be Dec. 3 and 2299CNY ( 308USD ) .

So, we got five different version of 8800GTS totally:

8800GTS G80 90纳米 96SP 320bit 320MB ( Integrated VP1 engine)

8800GTS G80 90纳米 96SP 320bit 640MB ( Integrated VP1 engine)

8800GTS G80 90纳米 112SP 320bit 640MB (Integrated VP2 engine) ( Nov. 19)

8800GTS G92 65纳米 128SP 256bit 512MB（Integrated VP2 engine）(Dec. 3)

8800GTS G92 65纳米 128SP 256bit 1024MB（Integrated VP2 engine）(Dec. 3)

source: http://www.expreview.com/news/hard/2007-11-01/1193911170d6733.html

seems like we are getting a 1024 mb version!

and the 19th only a redone version of the G80.

drak3 · 18 Nov 2007 at 11:36

Glad I did not buy a GT, this will play at 1920x1200 fine!

Vertigo · 18 Nov 2007 at 11:46

Vir said:
source: http://www.expreview.com/news/hard/2007-11-01/1193911170d6733.html

Well the middle one is obviously complete garbage as the G80 core can't suddenly grow an integrated VP2 engine, which therefore throws doubt on all of them.

marscay · 18 Nov 2007 at 12:05

fornowagain said:
Im not so sure. The NVidia ROPs so far are divided into partitions of 4 each, each one connected to a 64-bit memory channel.

8800GTX > 6 of 4, 6x64 = 384bit
8800GTS 640/320 > 5 of 4, 5x64 = 320bit
8800GT > 4 of 4, 4x64 = 256bit

Unless they've changed something in the basic architecture?

actually i think you're right, due to the arch it looks like it will not have any more ROP's than the GT.

if this is in fact the case i'd be more inclined to put the extra cost of it toward a 2nd GT.

easyrider · 18 Nov 2007 at 12:08

marscay said:
actually i think you're right, due to the arch it looks like it will not have any more ROP's than the GT.

if this is in fact the case i'd be more inclined to put the extra cost of it toward a 2nd GT.

I was thinking the same.

If it just is a GT with the extra SP a second GT would yield better results.

Vertigo · 18 Nov 2007 at 12:30

Providing you already have an SLI mobo of course, otherwise you're looking at more expense and hassle to change that too.

MumboJumbo · 18 Nov 2007 at 12:30

Do you guys recon two GTS's on launch will be under 500 quid?

I gota buy the pc before christmas and im worried the same thing with the GT's will happen. Hardly any stock and high prices.