nVidia GF 8800 GTX GTS Specs

[spartan015]

quote from mega games.

haha this might create a cpu bottleneck instead of the graphic card bottle neck... i mean running two of these... plus 800w psu...

nVidia has officially named its G80 chip and announced the first two boards to carry its architecture, the GeForce 8800 GTX and GeForce 8800 GTS, revealing their hardware specifications.

The anticipated launch for these cards is November 8, 2006 although the company has not confirmed that date.
The GeForce 8800 GTX will serve as the flagship product for the company and will support DX10 and shader model 4.0 as we expected and will feature a stunning 128 pixel pipelines, a number which becomes even more impressive when considering that the current pipeline peak is the 48 found on ATI's X1950XTX and that the current nVidia peak is the 32 on GeForce 7900GTX.

The full GeForce 8800 GTX specs are:

GeForce 8800GTX
Core clock: 575MHz
Pixel pipelines: 128 @ 1350 MHz
Memory: 768MB DDR3 @ 900 MHz
Memory interface: 384-bit
Memory bandwidth: 86GB/s

The GeForce 8800 GTS will be a lower end model but only when compares to the GTX as it will still feature 96 pixel pipelines. The GeForce 8800 GTS full specs are:

Core clock: 500MHz
Pixel pipelines: 96 @ 1200 MHz
Memory: 640MB DDR3 @ 900 MHz
Memory interface: 320-bit
Memory bandwidth: 64GB/s

The company has also issued recommended power ratings for these new beasts as they will feature two PCI-Express slots in order to receive the juice they require to run; a 450W power supply will be the minimum requirement for a GF 8800 GTX and a 400W for a GF 8800 GTS. If you have more money than sense and decide to run two of these babies in an SLI setup you will need a minimum 800W power supply.

DX10 games are unlikely to surface before 2007 and around Q1 of the same year ATI plans to introduce its own DX10 offering. The Canadians are running a little behind their rivals although this seems to be a repeat of the Shader Model 3.0 support saga. The question now is; how many people will be willing to buy DX10 cards before Vista (the only OS to support DX10) and games featuring the technology are available?

[Mr.Ferrari]

What im worried about is the heat and the power it'll need.

Im scared to thing what the R600 series from ATi might consume...

Honestly, even if I had the money, I would skip the first gen of DX10. These manufacturers need to come to sense before I'll ever think about a dx10 card.

There needs to be serious changes in die and architecture to make these more plausible. I mean already the heat dump and power needs for GPU's are getting outrageous.

[dogdude16]

intel has worked on his power usage and heat given off. now video cards need to do the same

only so much cooling can come from air

[rspassey]

If it needs two PCI slots, new motherboard designs are going to have to come out as well probably.

[blue60007]

How to they plan on making a card that will fit into two PCI-E slots? For the fairly small number of two PCI-E slot motherboard owners there is no standard for how far apart they are spaced (as far as I know). How does SLI work? You'd need 4 slots...I haven't seen too many of these type boards, and any out there are incredibly expensive. One other thing to note - a 7900GTX's minimum single card requirement is 450W (same as the new one), but it's SLI requirement is 550W...I can't imagine a second one of these will consume 350 extra watts - the thing would burst into flames if it did (or so you'd think). hmm, I guess I shouldn't have bought that new furnace to heat the house...a couple of these will probably be cheaper.

I think Intel was more or less forced to switch to more efficient desings with C2D by the industry as everyone was complaining and switching to other options...same thing will happen when the video card industry starts demanding more efficient desings...right now the cheapest and easiest way to put out better (meaning faster) video cards is to ramp up speeds on current desings rather than spend big R&D bucks and time on new designs as well as getting new options out faster. When the market starts demanding efficiency, ATi and nvida will be forced to change to stay competitive.

[RazorDX]

If people will buy it, board manufactureres will build it.

And you know people will buy it.

[rspassey]

Its a promising card, if they make a DX9 version - I'd definately buy one post the christmas holidays... but make it DX10 and I wont touch it until all the bugs have been worked out, and by then, there will be a better, faster, card out anyways.

[blue60007]

Originally Posted by RazorDX And you know people will buy it.

Yep, couldn't have said it better. Goes along with what I said earlier...most people don't care or know any better, so they'll go for these power guzzlers. ATI/nVidia is thinking, well, these are selling despite guzzling power, why change?

[spartan015]

that's the problem, when rich people get into comps and gaming, and they are naive, i'm not talking about the ones that actually know what there talkinga bout, but the ones that just basically buy peoples attention etc.

just for bragging rights... not even understanding the basics of air cooling to liquid cooling...

i'm worried that one of these days, for the middle level people won't be able to even touch certain comp parts because the price will be outragous.

[blue60007]

What do you call the Intel "Extreme" CPU's and AMD's FX CPU's and the high end ATI and nVidia cards? The average person can't afford those, but then again, it's not really necessary to get such high end parts...

[spartan015]

OC!!! lol

[chuck4456]

Add a PSU to support that thing and (along with it) you have double build budget. That's definitely a wait-see.

[jfk]

I'll pass. I'm with blue and MrF, I will wait a while. You know the first generation will be plagued with bugs, and the early power demands I've seen have been outrageous. I have enough PSU to handle things, but I just don't see the sense in it. I'll wait it out for (quite) a while, and when I build new again in a couple years I'll consider another top end card. Until then.....NADA.

[spartan015]

jfk you've got a pretty solid comp that should last a few yrs anyway... lol i'm jealous