GigaByte324

As with the worst kind of tequila, we usually take these kinds of rumours with a tight pinch of salt. However, a GPU-Z screenshot and a 3DMark06 score, all of which look pretty legitimate, back up the latest leaks concerning Nvidia's forthcoming GeForce 9800 GTX.

Expreview and VR-Zone have spilled the beans, revealing that the GeForce 9800 GTX is a very similar beast to the 512MB GeForce 8800 GTS. If the screenshots are to be believed, then the 9800 GTX has 128 stream processors, 512MB of GDDR3 memory and 16 ROPs, although it has slightly different clock speeds from the 512MB GeForce 8800 GTS.

According to the GPU-Z screenshot, the 9800 GTX has a very high shader clock of 1.69GHz, a core clock of 675MHz and a memory clock of 1.1GHz (2.2GHz effective). This isn't wildly different from the 8800 GTS in terms of clock speeds, but it may well be much quicker if the results from the GeForce 9600 GT are any indication.

The 9600 GT might have been overpriced in terms of performance, but it had an impressive amount of power for a GPU with just 64 stream processors. If the 9800 GTX uses the same streamlined architecture, then it may well prove to be much quicker than the 8800 GTS, despite having very similar specs on paper.

Expreview has demonstrated the potential speed of the card with a 3DMark06 score of 14,014 at 1,280 x 1,024 using a Core 2 QX9650, but this is the only benchmark we've seen so far. It's also worth noting that 3DMark06 only tests DirectX 9c features, and won't really challenge the DirectX 10 hardware.

As with the 9600 GT, it looks as though the 9800 GTX still doesn't support DirectX 10.1 either, although this is more of a marketing checkbox at the moment as DirectX 10.1 hasn't even been officially released yet.

Source: http://www.custompc.co.uk/news/60211...-revealed.html#

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HauntSheep

Would look cooler with a better cooler

They should have a similar cooling design to the 2900XT but instead of the flames it has Oooze, and the cooler would be BRIGHT GREEN with green oooze that is UV Reactive


Then i'll buy one =]

GigaByte324

Hopefully sparkle will make a calibre version, i wish...

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satcom

No DirectX 10.1?

ZealotKi11er

I heard that 9900GTX was going to support that.

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kobilica

9800GTX burried!

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GigaByte324

Go make more wire..

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Benny99

Looks like my New card

I really do think Nvidia is playing mind games with us and the 9800gtx is gonna be a G94 chip and then we are in business

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uberjon

you know whats funny? my gpu-z stats for my 8800GT evga sc stock..

pixel fillrate: 10.4 GPixel/s
texture fillrate: 36.4 GTexel/s
memory bandwidth: 60.8 GB/s

650/950/1620

all i can say is that better be fake. or in the 200$ range

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Mhill2029

Here's a ss of my 8800GTX @ stock next to the 9800GTX ss.

It still puzzles me how the 9 series is faster?

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