I really hope that the full review comes with at least Intel X6800 Core 2 Extreme :D, or better QuadCore Extreme :).

PS. A pair of Corsair Dominator memories too.

When exactly are you going to publish the gaming performance article ?
i'm looking forward to it!

I think 8800gtx is scap goat,Nvidia will reveal more power full videocard short after ATI comeout the R600 Monster try to bet R600.This is what Nvidia market strategy.

Very Interesting : )

Is really impressive to see from reviews of 8800 that nVidia is able to pull off a huge task of delivering the 8800 in large quantities as it the CPU is a very complex chip. Big contrast to PS3.
I see a lot of big number but I honestly have not seen much new innovations. I am hoping to see ATI making some innovative moves on their new chip. I'll be disappointed if ATI simply boost transistors and specs number up to be fast like 8800.

Since 8 November, I checked this site daily for its great power consumption measurements. Too bad you haven't been able to.
I hope to see it sometime soon...
Very good article, btw.

You guys should check out Tom's guide for the review of this card.

you xbitlabs needs to get on the act!
A article on the preview of the
architecture, whlie other sites
are already providing benchmark results?!

Hmm,

Seems like Nvidia's new 8x CSAA is pretty much equal to ATI's 6x FSAA, with roughly 6 samples for each anti-aliased jaggies when zooming in at least 400% using ATI's Compressonator program.

Of course, Nvidia's new 8x pure MSAA is true 8x, which is better than ATI's 6x MSAA.

The upcoming performance review might clearly show that although ATI's 6x FSAA is roughly equal to Nvidia's 8x CSAA in terms of image quality, Nvidia's 8x CSAA brings less performance hit in many games, and that 8x CSAA is almost comparable in performance hit to 4x FSAA!

Notice how Xbit Labs will probably tell you that Nvidia's 8xQ FSAA (8x true MSAA) brings a large performance hit, significantly larger than that of ATI's 6x FSAA. I bet that's why 8x full MSAA has not yet been done on video cards before the G80, because the performance hit was too large and impractical in any of the current games. (Ahhh.. those stubborn engineers, only allowing what is really needed by at least 5% of the market.) Now the G80 has power, at the very top of the DX9 market as it is currently (just as when the GeForce 2 Ultra was at the top of the DX7 market, and, on a side note, can still perform some of the current DX9 games with little or bearable visual quality loss such as Half Life 2 in DX7 mode).

I think that the major reason for 12 memory chips (768 MB) or 10 (640 MB) is because Nvidia could not find enough of affordable 1 GB GDDR3 or GDDR4 memory. Obviously, it was either too expensive or too scarce if Samsung only made 1 GB video memory in 2 or more GHz GDDR4, or if Samsung has not yet started manufacturing 128MB chips (for 1 GB video memory). But, Nvidia really needed more than 512 MB for the resource-consuming 8800's, without having problems in supplying enough of the cards to meet demand.

I bet that such high FSAA modes will quickly become popular and then standard in the near future.

I was planning on buying the 7950gx2 at the end of the month, Not anymore! the GFX quality is great! i cant wait for it to arrive here in SA!!

GPU made in TAIWAN ? ? [TaiJiDian 台积电]?

I like this part of analysis, but where is the sequel? It is 14.11 already. Are you always that slow?

There is an error regarding the computing power. The article states "the overall computing power of the core is, according to Nvidia, about 520 gigaflops. This is over two times that of the ATI R580 whose performance, according to ATI, is about 250 megaflops."

AFAIK 520 GIGAflops is over two THOUSAND times more than 250 MEGAflops.

Using Firefox 2, on loading the "Performance in FSAA Modes" page, I am presented with a popup dialogue box from "errorsafe.com" informing me that I should install their software ???
WTF is this all about ?
Google shows Errorsafe to be part of the same fraudware group as Winfixer 2005 et-al.
How is this occurring on xbitlabs, usually a respected and trusted site ?

A lot of talking about the 8800gts and gtx, but nothing to find/compare about the 8800gts in the tests. Nothing there,completely missing.
I have a 8800gts and hoped to find some answers.

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