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Supposed specifications for the 9900 GTX turn up
Kevin Spiess - Monday, May 5th, 2008 | 2:12PM (PST)


Looks like it may be a dual-core GPU card

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Website VR-Zone posted some supposed specifications of the semi-mythical 9900 GTX late last night.

Both the 9900 GTX, and ATI's next big monster -- the yet-unnamed HD 4000 series RV770 GPU -- are rumored to be coming out in June.

The 9900 GTX apparently will be a dual-GPU card -- but not in the regular sense. Instead of two separate GPUs, it looks like the 9900 GTX will have 2 processing cores in one chip (like a Core 2 Duo.) Both GPU cores are G92 based derivatives. Single-core G92 GPU's currently are in a number of NVIDIA's recent cards, including the 9800 GTX and 9800 GX2.

The 9900 GTX will have 192 stream processors,  GDDR3 memory  (most probably a gigabyte), 32 ROPS, and a 512-bit memory interface. This is going to be a pretty big card -- almost as big as the 9800GX2 probably, and will have a length of 10.5 inches, with a double-slot cooler crafted by the folks at Cooler Master. The clock speeds for the 9900 GTX have not surfaced yet.

So, what does this mean in the end? Well if you are lucky enough to have two 9900GTX cards, you can finally play Crysis at 2560x1600, very high details and with 4XAA, "smoothly." (About time!)

The suggested sale price for the 9900GTX has not yet been released, but I would imagine that this monster would sell for around $425-$450 initially.

Source: VR-Zone
Section: Video Cards

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May 5th, 2008 2:45PM(PST)
iamjoe56

Holy shit! *drools all over keyboard short circuiting it* HJKS KISJD MGO!

May 5th, 2008 5:24PM(PST)
ParanahJoe

$425-450 That's it? I guess I'll find an excuse to get one.

May 5th, 2008 5:32PM(PST)
kspiess

Could be more.

We'll have the review here on launch day so check back.

I'm guessing it will not be a fast as the 9800GX2, and will compete against the RV670, so I really don't think it would be over $500.

May 5th, 2008 7:21PM(PST)
tallteen86

OK, playing Crisis on highest settings at very high resolution, using two of these, would likely cost as much as a halfway decent cutom build?

No thanks...

If I ever make a custom PC, I'd stick with good, but cheaper cards....I want to play PC games, but not THAT badly....

May 5th, 2008 7:25PM(PST)
iamjoe56

Get two 8800 GT cards and you'll be set for the next 10 years for graphics cards, anyways.

May 5th, 2008 9:11PM(PST)
THM

In my opinion, this NVIDIA's Dual Core GPU card will not even last another eight months.
Just wait and see in February 2009. Better one is on the way with another rip-off price!!

I'm getting tired of their despicable money-making schemes out of nothing at all!!!

Just Stop making New GPU cards and instead they'd better invent like PS3's Cell.

May 5th, 2008 9:49PM(PST)
VeGiTAX2

The market has always shifted every few months, it's a miracle to see prices as low as they are though for next-gen cards instead of running $600+ each. I'd have to hope for better but I guess if they're addicted to G92 then so be it.

I'd check the output scores first before just complaining about the companies, if I remember right the RV670 in dual config is supposed to do about a teraflop while the Cell in the PS3 doesn't come to that level using the CPU with an estimation of around 100 Gigaflops.

May 6th, 2008 7:04AM(PST)
slick50zd1

So this makes me wonder, if this is replacing the 9800 GTX, may we very well have a 9900 GX2, consisting of two of these boards stuck together? creating a quad gpu? hmm....

May 6th, 2008 10:06AM(PST)
kspiess

That's a crazy and wacky possibility. In some forums I've read people considering that as well. I think its a possibility, but I don't imagine it would appear for a while.

One problem with that setup is that there really aren't any games out that would take advantage of that kind of power (besides Crysis.) Maybe when Fallout 3 comes out..?

May 6th, 2008 11:46AM(PST)
iamjoe56

They don't call them God machines for nothing.

May 6th, 2008 12:24PM(PST)
VeGiTAX2

"They don't call them God machines for nothing."

Psh. You mean enslavement machines. Skynet here we come.

A 2 GPU version of the dual core chips would be cool to see, but only if they can actually manage to write a decent driver to take advantage of it, if they can't then it's still a waste of money.

May 6th, 2008 12:31PM(PST)
iamjoe56

Ugh. The term "God machine" is meant to illustrate a machine with about 4 gigs of RAM, a Skulltrail Mobo, 2 Quad core CPUs running at about 4.0 GHZ And 2 8800 GT [I think that is the right card] Graphics cards. And a Creative Xfi Sound card.

May 6th, 2008 1:04PM(PST)
Guillermo

I hope it comes out before July 10 so I can step up with my current Evga 9800GTX. If it is like a dual-core CPU though, why will it still be so long? Wouldn't they be able to shorten it if the gpu took up less space?

May 6th, 2008 1:09PM(PST)
kspiess

Well a 9800 GTX is pretty much about 10.5 inches. I'd expect the two cards will look very similar -- perhaps, they are even the same overall design, yet the 9900GTX has a dual core GPU instead of the single core GPU on the 9800 GTX.

Iamjoe -=> Way to think big dude. That machine would be fast.

May 6th, 2008 1:36PM(PST)
iamjoe56

Yeah, it would be overkill, definatly, but goddamn it'd be nice to rub other peoples noses in it. evil:

May 6th, 2008 3:02PM(PST)
VeGiTAX2

I'd just make the step up to a workstation rig, you open yourself up from anywhere from 2-4 sockets.

MS is doing a partner giveaway this week it seems for a quad core 16GB workstation. Although it'd be nice to see a 16 core 64GB rig going on. XD

May 8th, 2008 11:16AM(PST)
ab

I don't feel this config is right. I was expecting a huge single GPU card - previous rumors said 240 stream processors and single card.

May 12th, 2008 6:06PM(PST)
kspiess

It is a huge single GPU card. Just one with 2 cores (according to rumor.)

May 13th, 2008 2:34PM(PST)
Guillermo

Is it a G92 chip or GT200? This is the only site I've read that says it will be G92.

May 13th, 2008 2:43PM(PST)
kspiess

GT200. I did not say it is G92. I said the "GPU cores are G92 based derivatives" as in, the two cores of the GT200 may look like they are offshoots/derivatives/developed from G92's GPUs. Sorry for any confusion.



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