By Q4 2007 (Xmas) NVIDIA will be releasing their GeForce 9800 series GPUs.
Unlike previously expected the codename for nVidia's next generation GPU will NOT be "G90" but instead be "G92".

I have some info form NVIDIA insider about the upcoming G92 graphics processors.

G92 will be released in November 2007 timeframe in the form of "GeForce 9800" series.

"G92" GeForce 9800 GTX specs.

- 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

Pros.

65nm process will allow for better yields and better power consumption. power consumption will be lower than that of a GeForce 8800 GTX.

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

Release date : November 2007. There will be TWO products at launch: The flagship GeForce 9800 GTX and the second fastest GeForce 9800 GTS.

price for the GeForce 9800 GTX will be 549-649 USD.

price for the GeForce 9800 GTS will be 399-449 USD.

Sounds pretty weak compared to the X38 IMO

what we really want to know is will it work with the older 965p, 680i, 975x chipsets, on a pci-e 1 slot.

That looks like one serous card.

Wow, that is one hell of a card..... I'm barely surviving with my gpu right now and i'm thinking of upgrading to one of these. I'm just not sure if I can hold on this long... Are you sure the release is on November? And will the power consimption be more like the 8800 gts?

why arnt they using hdmi yet? id like to plug it straight into my hd lcd/tv. i bet as soon as i buy it the next cards out will have hdmi.

Your kidding me. Who needs something THIS good?

2 times faster? no fucking way, it'd be awesome, but i don't believe it.

i get awful fps in the lost planet stress test...

but if you disable high shadows and set them to medium, i think it's 2 options you have to switch, the fps triples =)

visually, i can't see the diff either, both look just as good.

wow... i'd love all this to be true... time to sell my gtx8800 =)

Time to sell ur 8800GTX for 200 bucks to me :D

thx for the update Erik, any idea whether this new G92 based cards will work on older pci-e 1.0 slot?

i'm using a 680i and i certainly hope i dun have to change my mb jus for this card

PCIe 2 right?

As long as they don't reuse 6600GT PCBs AGAIN for the 9600 series...
I don't even know why they reuse the PCBs and the 128bit bus that comes with it for the 7600 or 8600 series, if I see a 6600GT PCB/128bit bus for the 9600 series I think my head would explode.

"I have some info form NVIDIA insider"

Yeh, sureeee you do..

This seems 100% bullshit to me.

No they'll use 64-bit bus!

Probaly not even ,theyre gona do 2500mhz memory on a 32 bit bus and a whole wopping 132 shaders.

woopdeedoo, this is fake.

1 BILLION transistors??? HELLO, how much heat/power is this thing gona do?

@Erik,

You know people aren't going to believe you without more proof.

I caught the same kind of flack (people saying it was bull) on another forum last year when I posted a link I found on VR-Zone about the pending release of 680i mobos.

Anyway, if this is true, I think I'll forego buying a new GPU until November, as I was planning on getting an X38 board around then anyway.

nobody will ever need more that 512k of system memory

Dude, there's no way that's real. You're fulla crap.

BS

1 BILLION?

Lets see im sure 1 billion = 1'000'000'000

Don't CPUs have something around the 200-600 Million transistors?

Thats 500'000'000 so this 1 card which doesn't do nearly as much as a CPU yet has twice the amount of transistors?