Post by Renown on Nov 9, 2006 17:51:04 GMT -5
Yet again we're closing in on Christmas, and for many of us, Christmas is that one day of the year where we're all able to get anything we should so desire, within reasonable cause of course. Well, one reasonable cause this snowy holiday would be nVidia's new extreme high-end video cards (one being more extreme than the other) the GeForce 8800GTX and 8800GTS, otherwise known to you as the GeForce 8-series, or G80. The GeForce 8 will be the only WGF 2.0-compliant card of the year and it packs more than just a newly designed hybrid cooling fan.
As I've already mentioned, the G80 comes in two distinctive flavors, the 8800GTX and 8800GTS, the former accompanied by a massive 768MB of GDDR-3 memory, the latter being accompanied by just 128MB less than that (640MB), while this marks the return of the GTS moniker, which hasn't been used since the NV15 days (GeForce 2) the GTS has come back with a considerable, if not mortifying bang. Whether the GTS moniker is still an acronym for GigaTexel Shader is anyone's ball game, but it is good that nVidia cares to foreshadow on it's past. While both cards differ from one another in a few areas, they're almost one in the same. The 8800 is a full-fledged Vista card, so those of you sporting the RC1 Beta have a lot to look forward to, and nVidia hopes it'll pave the way to the Golden Palace itself.
The good news is that it's a lot cheaper than expected to say the least, it's only going for$650 while the GTS goes for $500. Not too bad considering the horde of power you'd be harnessing. However, the bad news is since it's a WGF 2.0-compliant video card it's performance potential will somewhat indeed be blindsided until next year, and by then rival ATi looks to have their trump card up their sleeves with the upcoming R600.
For the time being all will be well in the sacred land of nVidia Forest, at least until some cold competition comes it's way, unless you count the X1950XTX and GeForce 7950GX2, which are probably the only other two powerhouses who could hold their own against the new kid on the block. It's safe to assume that when the R600 does indeed have it's launch and it's everything ATi promises and thensome, that would be when nVidia rolls out the 8900GTX.
That's got a nice ring to it, doesn't it?
As I've already mentioned, the G80 comes in two distinctive flavors, the 8800GTX and 8800GTS, the former accompanied by a massive 768MB of GDDR-3 memory, the latter being accompanied by just 128MB less than that (640MB), while this marks the return of the GTS moniker, which hasn't been used since the NV15 days (GeForce 2) the GTS has come back with a considerable, if not mortifying bang. Whether the GTS moniker is still an acronym for GigaTexel Shader is anyone's ball game, but it is good that nVidia cares to foreshadow on it's past. While both cards differ from one another in a few areas, they're almost one in the same. The 8800 is a full-fledged Vista card, so those of you sporting the RC1 Beta have a lot to look forward to, and nVidia hopes it'll pave the way to the Golden Palace itself.
The good news is that it's a lot cheaper than expected to say the least, it's only going for$650 while the GTS goes for $500. Not too bad considering the horde of power you'd be harnessing. However, the bad news is since it's a WGF 2.0-compliant video card it's performance potential will somewhat indeed be blindsided until next year, and by then rival ATi looks to have their trump card up their sleeves with the upcoming R600.
For the time being all will be well in the sacred land of nVidia Forest, at least until some cold competition comes it's way, unless you count the X1950XTX and GeForce 7950GX2, which are probably the only other two powerhouses who could hold their own against the new kid on the block. It's safe to assume that when the R600 does indeed have it's launch and it's everything ATi promises and thensome, that would be when nVidia rolls out the 8900GTX.
That's got a nice ring to it, doesn't it?