Nvidia Geforce 9800GTX Specifications

marl · 25 Jul 2007 at 20:08

Hope its true and the release date is accurate as i am saving up with the intention of getting a new rig after Xmas - should have the cash by then!!

sgar · 25 Jul 2007 at 20:11

Started by: Erik Larsson | Date 06/03/07

Tom|Nbk · 25 Jul 2007 at 20:13

snowdog said:
Whats so funny, very realistic if you read the specs.

Hmm? Already a new dx10 revision?

Erm yea It's been known for eons. Apparantly it will add tesselation support and a number of other things. This is where the R600 is ahead of the G80 in that aspect.

snowdog said:
Good good, finally a good compedator to xbox360.

WTF :/ If anything can compete or be directly comparable with the 360's chip (Xenos) It's the R600 which is basically it's big brother. The 360 does feature eDRAM but the AA on this chip is only free because of the low resolution the 360 run's at a lot of the 360 titles out atm don't even take advantage of it the G90 will be massively advanced compared to it.

snowdog said:
Hope they release a 512 budget version, I don't need 1gb @ 1280x1024 and 1024x768.

They will, why would they want to cut of a massive market segment who would want the 512mb version.

snowdog said:
Hope its better than onboard stuff, might take some strain away from the cpu.

Most likely just a bridge chip as featured on the R600.

MoD_Callidus · 25 Jul 2007 at 20:17

Tom|Nbk said:
Where do I sign up

^ Judas ^

Tom|Nbk · 25 Jul 2007 at 20:20

MoD_Callidus said:
^ Judas ^

LoadsaMoney · 25 Jul 2007 at 20:25

Just think of all the lovely Dx10 games these are gona cut through NOT!!!.

killer_uk · 25 Jul 2007 at 20:34

Bah, thought this was going to be new information.

KNiVES · 25 Jul 2007 at 21:15

Don't games need to be designed to take advantage of the eDram? I know that 360 games do, you can't just plonk 4xAA on and be done with it.

Tom|Nbk · 25 Jul 2007 at 21:20

KNiVES said:
Don't games need to be designed to take advantage of the eDram? I know that 360 games do, you can't just plonk 4xAA on and be done with it.

Yea I think they do. DX10.1 specification may have it.

psychas · 25 Jul 2007 at 21:20

3900xt mhhhh :eek:

lay-z-boy · 25 Jul 2007 at 21:21

LoadsaMoney said:
Just think of all the lovely Dx10 games these are gona cut through NOT!!!.

Bah, DX10 is soooooooooooooooooooooo Q2/3 2007

DX10.1 is where it's at

Tom|Nbk · 25 Jul 2007 at 21:23

lay-z-boy said:
Bah, DX10 is soooooooooooooooooooooo Q2/3 2007

DX10.1 is where it's at

mmj_uk · 25 Jul 2007 at 21:33

KNiVES said:
Don't games need to be designed to take advantage of the eDram? I know that 360 games do, you can't just plonk 4xAA on and be done with it.

Won't that be handled by the drivers?

Priapus · 25 Jul 2007 at 21:46

mmj_uk said:
Won't that be handled by the drivers?

No, the game needs to be able to support it as well, so therefore be made for it.

jaykay · 25 Jul 2007 at 21:49

Wasnt the r600 surpose to have free 4aa well that turn out to be wrong. Im also not believing that it will be 3 times faster yer right. :rolleyes:

Tom|Nbk · 25 Jul 2007 at 22:12

jaykay said:
Wasnt the r600 surpose to have free 4aa well that turn out to be wrong. Im also not believing that it will be 3 times faster yer right.

No, the R600 gives free AA in certain games/resolutions for example in Doom 3, going from 8xAA to 16xAA takes no hit what so ever, so is theoretically "Free" I have noticed this in other games aswell.

LoadsaMoney · 25 Jul 2007 at 22:16

lay-z-boy said:
Bah, DX10 is soooooooooooooooooooooo Q2/3 2007

DX10.1 is where it's at

Dx10 is so last year.

I really enjoyed all those Dx10 games, lets hope we get as much enjoyment out of our new Dx10.1 cards and Dx10.1 games.

fornowagain · 25 Jul 2007 at 22:24

jaykay said:
Wasnt the r600 surpose to have free 4aa well that turn out to be wrong. Im also not believing that it will be 3 times faster yer right.

Well its been said that DX10.1 will have a hardware requirement of 4 samples per pixel minimum, is that mandatory in app or just a spec? Dunno. The current cards don't have all the functions they're talking about for 10.1, WDDM 2.1 looks like a lot of work. And its all or nothing, if one API function is missing it drops back to the previous version.

Game Developers Conference 2007

Some of rumored the DX10.1 improvements

Improved shadow filtering
Cube mapping
Floating point blending
Better multi-core CPU support
Full application AA control
FP32 filtering
Double precision math FP64
Min 4xMSAA caps
WDDM 2.1
Custom downsampling filters
Page level context switching
Pixel coverage mask
Tessellation

Nvidia Creates First Graphics Chip with Embedded DRAM

willhub · 25 Jul 2007 at 22:26

Apparently the HD2900XT is DX10.1, I guess it dont mean a think though

HangTime · 25 Jul 2007 at 22:28

Any word on whether these will support SLI?