Sunday, August 19th 2007

NVIDIA G92 rumors - possible specifications

Christmas is coming up fast once more and rumor has it, that NVIDIA plans to release their new graphic cards in November, just in time for the holiday rush. The NVIDIA G92, possibly called GeForce 9800 GTX will have 1 billion transistors and could cost somewhere around 549 - 649 USD, while the GTS should only set you back 399 to 449 USD. Take a look at the spec's after the break.

- 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 (HDMI).
- Built in tesselation unit (in the graphics core)
- Improved AA and AF quality levels
Source: TweakPC (german)
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27 Comments on NVIDIA G92 rumors - possible specifications

#26
KennyT772
HaZe303No you didnt understand me, or I didnt maybe understand you. I thought you meant it was the same thing as when we changed from AGP to PCI-E?? And I mean its not exactly the same thing. But now I im not sure you meant from AGP to PCI-E, but more the different versions of AGP??? Actually I dont remember so much of the AGP, I got really in to GFX and the hardware in end of AGP era(before pci-e), so I really cant argue it. :)

Ps. Always had an intresse in PC´s, but as graphics and hardware has evolved last 5-6 years I´ve become more aware of it. So had you asked me about what kind of GFX card or GPU I had 10 years ago I wouldnt have known unless I´d opened up the case and looked for it.. Needed just to clearify that... :)
Yeah I was talking about agp's evolutions, not the switch. agp was a parallel bus-pcie serial, along with many other differences.

PCIe should be a much more compatible bus, but you know what they say about compatibility...the more products that are covered the larger the performance penalty is.
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#27
freaksavior
To infinity ... and beyond!
KennyT772That is the same exact principle in agp, doubling the data rate 1x->2x->4x->8x. They also played with the slot voltage, but most cards were compatible with 1/2 2/4 or 4/8 so they were mostly compatible with any era slot. I'm telling ya dude, its the same scenario. Wonder why? Because when you say you double performance of something people buy it.
the only difference in speed on agp was from 2x to 8x. From 4 to 8 there was no boost in performance. It may very well end up like that for pci-e v1.0 and pci-e v2.0
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