Geforce 9 series specifications

[Interfan]

Not sure this is 100% accurate but it seems to be fairly accurate since they even state some of the stuff isn't confirmed.

GeForce 9800GTX specifications surfaces
Written by Andreas G 24 February 2008 18:18

GeForce 9800GTX will be the fastest single-core graphics card from chip maker NVIDIA, when it arrives before the end of next month. The rumors have been speaking of core frequencies all the way up to 850MHz, which was way off. According to a post over at Expreview, GeForce 9800GTX will sport no more than 675MHz core frequency, which is basically slightly faster than the GeForce 8800GTS 512MB.

This means that the shaders operate at a frequency of 1688MHz and the memory have been upgraded to 1100MHz GDDR3 (2200MHz DDR). The amount of memory is still 512MB and since this is just a new flavor or the G92 chip, it sports a 256-bit bus, which in no way will limit performance. They also confirm that this is the G92-420 chip we've been reporting about.

The table now looks something like this;
Card SPs GPU clock Bus Mem clock
GeForce 9800GX2 2x128 600MHz 256-bit 2000MHz
GeForce 9800GTX 128 675MHz 256-bit 2200MHz
GeForce 9800GT 112* - 256-bit -
GeForce 9600GT 64 600MHz 256-bit 1800MHz
GeForce 9600GS - - - -
GeForce 9500GT 48* 650MHz* 128-bit 1800MHz*
GeForce 9500GS - - - -

* Not confirmed, and should be considered with a pinch of salt

http://www.nordichardware.com/news,7394.html

[Gambit]

Funny that everyone has gone back to 256bit. Must have been more efficient than initially thought.

[dolfieman]

I think I'll be holding on to my 8800GT for quite a while. I want to skip a generation me thinks, started with a TNT2 all the way up(skipped on the GeForce3 series), this doesn't look like a significant improvement, except maybe for the memory speeds.

Funny that everyone has gone back to 256bit. Must have been more efficient than initially thought.

Noticing the same thing.

[Interfan]

Personally waiting for 9800gtx's pricing and power requirements. If they are too extreme and requires a psu upgrade then I will go for the 9800gt.

[Gambit]

Interesting quote I just read regarding the 256 bit interface:

"Don't bother getting upset with the 256-bit memory bus because it will not become any kind of bottleneck. The only time it might be even close to that is when you're pouring liquid nitrogen into the container and have the GPU running at +50% of stock frequency, which will happen though."

(This was on a page looking at AMD/ATI new cards but the bit rate works the same on all GPU's.

http://www.nordichardware.com/news,7356.html

[dolfieman]

Link to 9600GT Hands on preview

http://www.gamespot.com/features/618...ml?tag=nl.e579