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Introduction
It is an odd situation indeed when technology is entirely obsolesced within eight months of release, but it is a pattern that NVIDIA are clearly promoting. The release of the 7800 GTX in June of 2005 was really quite a groundbreaking leap in performance. By March of this year however, a marginally faster 7900 GT could be had for just nearly half the price that the 7800 GTX originally released for. Arguably not a simple refresh product, the 7900 GTX brought even greater levels of performance to the high end segment, only to be overshadowed by the 7950 GX2 three months later (as far as single cards go).
One would assume that this rapid product release pace would eventually have to stop somewhere. The rumors, however, began flying faster than ever soon after the 7900 series release that NVIDIA's first DirectX 10 product was expected to ship within the year! Along with these tidbits were rumblings of massive power requirements and seperate power supplies designed specifically to handle the new DirectX GPU's from NVIDIA as well as from ATI. These rumors reaffirmed that NVIDIA was not simply making a DirectX 10 compatible 7900, but instead were pushing for an entirely new, presumably immensely powerful, GPU architecture.
This brings us to the past month where we have seen most, if not all of the details surrounding today's release hit the internet in one form or another. These details only solidified everyone's ideas on how new and improved this card was actually going to be. NVIDIA have spent four years developing the G80 which is being brought to retail in two forms, as the GeForce 8800 GTX and the GeForce 8800 GTS. We will be taking a look at the all new architecture to see what's changed as well as looking at our card specifically, the GeForce 8800 GTS from BFG.
Before we dive into the details however, here is a chart highlighting the specifications of the two new cards. There are likely a couple of perplexing numbers there and we will be covering those over the next few pages so keep reading!
Introduction
It is an odd situation indeed when technology is entirely obsolesced within eight months of release, but it is a pattern that NVIDIA are clearly promoting. The release of the 7800 GTX in June of 2005 was really quite a groundbreaking leap in performance. By March of this year however, a marginally faster 7900 GT could be had for just nearly half the price that the 7800 GTX originally released for. Arguably not a simple refresh product, the 7900 GTX brought even greater levels of performance to the high end segment, only to be overshadowed by the 7950 GX2 three months later (as far as single cards go).
One would assume that this rapid product release pace would eventually have to stop somewhere. The rumors, however, began flying faster than ever soon after the 7900 series release that NVIDIA's first DirectX 10 product was expected to ship within the year! Along with these tidbits were rumblings of massive power requirements and seperate power supplies designed specifically to handle the new DirectX GPU's from NVIDIA as well as from ATI. These rumors reaffirmed that NVIDIA was not simply making a DirectX 10 compatible 7900, but instead were pushing for an entirely new, presumably immensely powerful, GPU architecture.
This brings us to the past month where we have seen most, if not all of the details surrounding today's release hit the internet in one form or another. These details only solidified everyone's ideas on how new and improved this card was actually going to be. NVIDIA have spent four years developing the G80 which is being brought to retail in two forms, as the GeForce 8800 GTX and the GeForce 8800 GTS. We will be taking a look at the all new architecture to see what's changed as well as looking at our card specifically, the GeForce 8800 GTS from BFG.
Before we dive into the details however, here is a chart highlighting the specifications of the two new cards. There are likely a couple of perplexing numbers there and we will be covering those over the next few pages so keep reading!
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X1950PRO would be a good stopgap to see how R600 stacks up against the G80. Now that NVIDIA have shown their cards, ATI has a chance to try to one-up them so it would definitely be interesting.
http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTIxOCwxLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==
the fact that the games i want are going to be direct x10 is a major factor for me...thank god i kept with my X550 for a while.
Please don't post in threads that old unless it is really necessary. i.e. user system threads etc...
And lots has changed since this thread has begun.
For a start.
Kilgore mentioned a die shinkage.
The G90 core coming out later this year while have a 65mm core.
Th R600 may have the same sizec ore.
And the G100 coming out in Q1 2008 for nVidia will be even more effecient.
The 8800 card prices have gone down.
This thread is old and out of date, please don't bump it.
Also R600 is gonna be 65nm which was why it was delayed so AMD could make some power savings, ramp up the core speed possibly, and prevent transistor leakage that was heavy @ 80nm.
And secondly, the mods will yell at you if you start bumping up threads 2 years old...
There are rules against that. So you DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT to bump up any thread you want.
In fact, i think you had to agree to compling with the rules when you joined... so you really shoujld have had a look...
You should seriously read the rules before making a comment like that (3 years...pff)
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