Digg reported the possible specs for a new NVIDIA gfx card due for release in November.

Possible specs for Nvidia's G80 leak out
By Cyril Kowaliski - 9:40 AM, September 20, 2006

Some reasonably detailed specifications along with pricing and naming information for Nvidia's upcoming G80 graphics processor have leaked. The specs were posted by VR-Zone but have since been silently taken down. Luckily, the information was relayed by the folks at X-bit labs and reads as follows:

* Unified Shader Architecture;
* Support FP16 HDR+MSAA;
* Support GDDR4 memories;
* Close to 700M transistors (G71 - 278M / G70 - 302M);
* New AA mode: VCAA;
* Core clock scalable up to 1.5GHz;
* Shader peformance: 2x Pixel/12x Vertex over G71;
* 8 TCPs & 128 stream processors;
* Much more efficient than traditional architecture;
* 384-bit memory interface (256-bit+128-bit);
* 768MB memory size (512MB+256MB)

The information says the G80 will launch in November in the form of GeForce 8800 GTX and GeForce 8800 GT models priced at $649 and $449-499, respectively. The faster of the two will have a 384-bit memory interface, a hybrid water and air cooler, and "7 TCPs." The GeForce 8800 GT will reportedly have a 320-bit memory interface, a standard air cooler, and "6 TCPs."

Neither X-bit labs nor VR-Zone clarify the meaning of the TCP acronym, but it could refer to thread control processors. According to this Nvidia patent, thread control units are used to configure programmable computation units to perform vertex or pixel operations. In other words, they set the function of the graphics chip's unified shader processors.

Guess I won't get that 7900 after all.

that has to piss trog off haha

DX10?

that has to piss trog off haha

Yeah i would never have guessed newer better hardware would be released in the future.

that has to piss trog off haha

Why? Seeing as he bought a $220 card and the cheapest 8800GT card is $600AUS (a completely different price bracket)

But I guess trolling is fun yeah?

thats pretty cheap for the specs

<3 Nvidia how can i quit you

It would except I deliberately bought the cheaper card so I could get a more whizbang one later.

The 'cheap' card I got gives me flat com_maxfps of 90 in ET under all circumstances in 1024x768 with all the settings on max so I'm happy anyway!

thats pretty cheap for the specs

U.S. dollars, and its pretty much the same as when the last top end cards were released.

^ d'oh

Wow a new graphics card.....

Hey Trog a review on you system would be great!

I'm just thinking of the same spec atm.....

yeah any noticeable difference with the 10000rpm hdd?

Alize..
A mate just bought two 160mb Raptors, hooked em up in RAID0, the Core 2 Duo E6600, 2 gig of DDR2 with a nVidia 7950 and it absolutely cains!
- I so want his machine

I'll chuck together a quick minireview tonight. Pretty happy with it so far. I'm trying not to get too excited because I don't think I've ever bought a PC that hasn't f***ed up horribly within 48 hours and I just want to make it past that mark (only got it Monday).

I wonder what VCAA stands for?

very cool AA

A mate just bought two 160mb Raptors, hooked em up in RAID0

que Obes slapdown on raid 0

/back on subject

new nvidia cards are always exciting! 'hope this baby supports DX-10

All the G80 cards are DX10 compatible but you'll also need Windows Vista because apparently XP ain't getting DX10 support... on that note though, im sure someone will hack DX10 on the day of release to get it working on XP.

apparently XP ain't getting DX10 support...

Lets just wait and see what happens if vista slips again.

*Puts upgrade on hold*

im sure someone will hack DX10 on the day of release to get it working on XP.

I want to believe :) please make it so.

I cbf upgrading anymore. This is fast enough.

pics

http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/6277/g802zs3.jpg

http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/1908/g801nx0.jpg

get your 1000w power supplies ready, that thing looks about 1 foot long has 2 x pci-e power connecters and the gtx comes with hybrid fan/water cooling as standard.

im sure someone will hack DX10 on the day of release to get it working on XP.

Yeah, I'm positive it'll be no sweat to "hack" an API that's been in development several years in tight integration with a brand new platform's brand new driver model

Honestly.

Maybe it will even be as simple as flicking the "Work with XP lol?" switch to "Hell yea dawg".

Expect it on your favourite bittorrent network within hours of release.

last edited by Hashy at 05:44:39 30/Sep/06

sand in your vagina?

Whats this about Hashys' vagina?

oh the usual

Whats this about Hashys' vagina?

Sand and crabs I think.

get your 1000w power supplies ready

Stacker and 2 psu's ftw!

Specs got offically put out today:

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=4441

now thats a load of firepower

8800GTX
575MHz Core Clock
900MHz Mem Clock
768MB GDDR3 memory
384-bit memory interface (86GB/s)
128 unified shaders clocked at 1350 MHz
38.4 billion pixels per second theoretical texture fill-rate
450W PSU Recommended
Hard launch in second week of November

8800GTS
500MHz Core Clock
900MHz Mem Clock
640MB GDDR3 memory
320-bit memory interface (64GB/s)
96 unified shaders clocked at 1200 MHz
?? billion pixels per second theoretical texture fill-rate
400W PSU Recommended
Hard launch in second week of November

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DailyTech received its first looks at a GeForce 8800 production sample today, and by the looks of it, the card is a monster: at least with regard to size and power requirements.

The GeForce 8800 comes in two flavors, which we will get into more detail about over the course of the next few days. The first card, the GeForce 8800GTX, is the full blown G80 experience, measuring a little less than 11 inches in length. The GeForce 8800GTS is a cut down version of the first, and only 9 inches in length.

The marketing material included with the card claims NVIDIA requires at least a 450W power supply for a single GeForce 8800GTX, and 400W for the 8800GTS. Top tier vendors in Taiwan have already confirmed with DailyTech that GeForce 8800 cards in SLI mode will likely carry a power supply "recommendation" of 800W. NVIDIA's GeForce 7950GX2, currently the company's top performing video card, carries a recommendation of 400W to run the card in single-card mode.

NVIDIA is slated to launch both versions of the GeForce 8800 in November of this year. More details on the GeForce 8800 will be available later today on DailyTech.

Update 10/05/2006: We originally reported the GeForce 8800GTX and 8800GTS are 9" in length. The reference design for the 8800GTX is actually a little less than 11 inches. The GTX has two 6-pin power adaptors, the GTS has only one.

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NVIDIA already has 16X AA available for SLI applications. The GeForce 8800 will be the first card to feature 16X AA on a single GPU. Previous generations of GeForce cards have only been able to support 8X antialiasing in single-card configurations.

measuring a little less than 11 inches in length.

Thats about the same lenght as my video card :/

yay for my x1900GT

Can I ask one question, what games are actually worth spending that sort of money on? It just encourages designers to concentrate on graphics and forget about this thing called "gameplay". I know this may sound like a strange concept.

whats this "gameplay" you speak of and why do we care?