Nvidia 9800 Specs

[The Wise Monkey]

- 65nm process technology at TSMC.
- Over one billion transistors.
- Second Generation Unified Shader Architecture.
- Double precsion support (FP64).
- GPGPU native.
- Over one TeraFLOPS of shader processing power.
- MADD+ADD configuration for the shader untis (2+1 FLOPS=3 FLOPS per ALU)
- Fully Scalar design.
- 512-bit memory interface.
- 1024MB GDDR4 graphics memory.
- DirectX 10.1 support.
- OpenGL 3.0 Support.
- eDRAM die for "FREE 4xAA".
- built in Audio Chip.
- built in tesselation unit (in the graphics core"
- Improved AA and AF quality levels

The card will cost:
-The 9800GTX for 549$>649$
-The 9800GTS for 399$>449$


GeForce 9800 GTX will be over two times faster than a GeForce 8800 Ultra in real world games and applications, supposedly.

All this sounds pretty sweet - glad I decided not to step-up my 8800GTS just yet. :)

[Jamie Nixx]

We will have to wait and see, Nvidia product specification has a habit of being exaggerated before they are released so take any tech news of them with a pinch of salt, they should be pretty good though.

If one of them can't run Crysis maxed out with full AA at at least 50 fps average though they have failed imo :D

[JasonG]

What's the point of a built-in audio chip?

[The Wise Monkey]

Big news everyone - the new 8800GTS 512MB has been released, and it is officially better than the 8800GT. :D

Just applied for one on the EVGA step-up program, so should be getting one soon. :D

[Jamie Nixx]

Only very slighty, its not worth the extra, the new GTS is £50 more than the GT for only a couple more FPS.