Nvidia today urgently informed their partners about the corrections made to their last generation G92 based single-chip solutions line-up, because they were expecting the competition in the mainstream segment to get more aggressive. First of all, they reduced the recommended prices on their GeForce 9800 GTX solution that will now be available for $199.
A newer modification of this graphics card, GeForce 9800 GTX+, will be competing against the new Radeon HD 4850. According to the report on Tweaktown site, the new solution will have its chip frequency increased from 675/1688MHz to 738/1836MHz. As a result, GTX+ model should be about 10% faster than the regular GeForce 9800 GTX. GeForce 9800 GTX+ should supposedly be available in the market for something around $229 retail price.
Among the innovative features of the new GeForce 9800 GTX+ the manufacturer lists support of PhysX and Folding@Home as well as some other CUDA optimized applications, however, this advantage may be available to other Nvidia graphics cards, too. Of course, GeForce 9800 GTX+ will continue to support SLI and 3-Way SLI.
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2 of these should easily rival a GTX280 minus the 1gb of ram and about $250 less.
[Posted by: gman | Date: 06/19/08 03:46:20 PM]
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Rememer the cost of capable new motherboard, new PSU, and more power consumption, might not be worth buying two..
[Posted by: CoffeDK | Date: 06/20/08 01:12:19 AM]
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or if you thought of that when you first bought your computer.. then you already have those things ;)
[Posted by: Silver | Date: 06/23/08 03:20:45 AM]
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One GT280 wouldn't be that far off 2 x 9800GTX in Power supply usage, remember the + chip in on 55nm, so should run cooler and use less wattage than the standard 9800gtx.
Think I will be going for a 4850 though myself.
[Posted by: Liquidh20 | Date: 06/20/08 08:29:52 AM]
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It seems Nvidia has only one rule for their product naming: don't follow previous rules.
8800GTS 320/640 -> 8800GTS 512 (different chip and memory interface)
8800GS -> 9600GSO (same thing with different name)
9800GTX -> 9800GTX+ (isn't it deserve 9900GTX rather than something +?)
[Posted by: Markham | Date: 06/20/08 01:32:45 PM]
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I guess 9850GTX is a better name for the upgraded 9800GTX.
[Posted by: PinPin | Date: 06/22/08 02:04:31 AM]
Yeah 'it should have been', could be discused all day (:
So in that case it should have been
8900 GTX (instead of 9800 GTX)
8900 Ultra (instead of 9800 GTX+)
or
9800 Ultra / 9900 GTX (intstead of 9800 GTX+)
[Posted by: Silver | Date: 06/23/08 03:25:24 AM]
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nvidia sounds desperate...is AMD kicking thier arse !!!!
[Posted by: nick | Date: 06/27/08 08:46:23 AM]
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