GeForce 9800 may be named NVIDIA year-end burst [Updated!]
The first samples will be ready soon.
NVIDIA doesn’t leave anything to chance, it seems like it wants to replace the current peak 8800 series later this year. According to some sources, the manufacturer is making good progress in designing the G92 core, with September samples already available for final products in November. As far as tile knowledge is concerned, we can only provide unconfirmed data for the time being.
Only the most important:
- 65 nm manufacturing technology (TSMC)
- More than 1 billion transistors
- Second Generation Unified Shading Structure
- FP64 precision
- Native GPGPU
- Up to 1 teraFLOPS shading processing power
- MADD + ADD configuration for shading units (2 + 1 FLOPS = 3 FLOPS / ALU)
- 512-bit memory bus
- 1024 MB GDDR4 memory
- PCI Express 2.0
- DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL 3.0 support
- built-in test unit
- eDRAM storage for FREE 4 × AA
- Increased AA and AF quality levels
How many of these will actually materialize is not known, in any case, AMD has to tie up his pants. Again…
Update: As of this position, the same tile has two names, the GeForce 8950 mark has also been raised.
