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Nvidia 9600 GSO

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Nvidia has tacitly confirmed speculation about the specifications of its upcoming GeForce 9600 GSO graphics card by launching the thing.

As expected, the GSO connects to 384MB of graphics memory over a 192-bit bus. The Ram runs at 800MHz, the GPU itself at 550MHz, though the chip's 96 unified shaders are clocked at 1375MHz.

That, said, Nvidia yields a texture fill rate of 26.4bn polygons per second. The memory bandwidth is 38.4GB/s.

Those numbers put the GSO at the bottom of the GeForce 9 list, though it offers all the key features of its stablemates: support for SLI, HD disc decoding, PCI Express 2.0 and DirectX 10.

The GSO comes in ahead of the ATI Radeon HD 3830, AMD's bid to undercut the GeForce 9600 GT.
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http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/04/28/nvidia_rolls_out_geforce_gso/
 
no real point in Nvidia releasing the 9 series. this is practically the same as the 640MB 8800GTS apart from one or two tweaks.

further proof that Nvidia need a new architecture
 
doubt thats accurate at all. the 9600gt has 64 stream processors, and this 9600gso mentioned above has 96 stream processors yet is aimed lower than the 9600gt??

something not right there.
 
Those specs are correct, as thats the new name for the 8800 GS, as Nvidia have far to many of those cards left, so they are putting them out as 9600 GSO's now so they can get rid of them all. :)

Specs of 8800 GS (now known as 9600 GSO)

Stream Processors 96
Core Clock (MHz) 550
Shader Clock (MHz) 1375
Memory Clock (MHz) 800
Memory Amount 384mb
Memory Interface 192bit
Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec) 38.4
Texture Fill Rate (billion/sec) 26.4
 
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LoadsaMoney said:
Those specs are correct, as thats the new name for the 8800 GS, as Nvidia have far to many of those cards left, so they are putting them out as 9600 GSOs now so they can get rid of them all. :)

Specs of 8800 GS (now known as 9600 GSO)

Stream Processors 96
Core Clock (MHz) 550
Shader Clock (MHz) 1375
Memory Clock (MHz) 800
Memory Amount 384mb
Memory Interface 192bit
Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec) 38.4
Texture Fill Rate (billion/sec) 26.4
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Loadsa's correct, they've just basically made a new bios for 8800GSes so they register as a 9600GSO, put stickers over the HSF cover, and put them in new boxes. It's actually worse than what they did with the 9800GTX! atleast they "changed" a few bits, how ever slightly those changes may be :o.
 
Tute said:
You gotta laugh at this really. I assume they haven't even die shrinked the 8800GS?
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Nope, they really have just took 8800GSes out of their 8800 boxes, flashed them with a new bios, slapped a new 9600 sticker on, and put them in a new 9600 box. They had loads of 8800GSes still in stock.
 
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Tute said:
You gotta laugh at this really. I assume they haven't even die shrinked the 8800GS?
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No, as was said above by kylew, basically Nvidia are just taking their 8800 GS cards, flashing the BIOS's on them so they read as 9600 GSO's in Windows/Nv CP, and adding a new sticker to the HSF's with the 9600 GSO naming, then popping them in new boxes, you just couldn't make it up. :D
 
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They will be more expensive than they were under their 8800 guise, as 9 series is higher.

http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7012&Itemid=1

Another 8800 renaming story here to.

http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6984&Itemid=1

We’ve heard that Nvidia is currently sitting on around 700,000 G92 chips that are used for 8800GS cards, and if you are one of the big partners, Nvidia might let you rename your 8800GS stock to 9600GSO.

It is only Fud, but i can well believe it, as they have to get rid of them somehow.
 
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