Vista DirectX 10 for peanuts

By Fuad Abazovic: csütörtök 25 január 2007, 13:59

NVIDIA plans to bring more DirectX 10 parts to market.

After the G86 hits the mainstream there will be a place for an entry level card. We also call this the low end market and these cakes sell the best. This chip is scheduled for a summer introduction.

It gets the Geforce 8300 brand and it is again 80 nanometre chip. The faster one is called Geforce 8300 GT. It has 32 stream processors - one quarter of the Geforce 8800 GTX. It works at 500MHz and the memory works at 1200MHz. The card uses 128 Bit Mbit memory controller. There will be two configurations one supporting 256MB while the second supports 128MB of memory.

Depending on the memory size, these cards will be priced between $89 and $99 George Washingtons.

The slower card, the Geforce 8300 GS, is again 80 nanometre card with 24 stream processors. Its funny that no one talks about fixed pipelines anymore. The core works at 500 MHz while the memory clocks at 1000 MHz. the card uses the same 128 bit memory interface and supports between 128 and 256 MBs of memory. It will end up priced between $69 and $79. It will run some DirectX 10 games but don’t expect top performance from it.

Geforce 8600 Ultra and GT

By Fuad Abazovic: csütörtök 25 január 2007, 13:24
OUR friends in the Far East managed to get all the dirty details about G83 and G86. The first to come is Geforce 8600 and it will have Ultra and GT version. The ultra brand is back in business. Both chips are made at a 80 nanometre process and Nvidia managed to shrink them down.

The Geforce 8600 Ultra supports 64 Stream processors and works at 500 MHz core and 1400 MHz memory. It has 256 Mbit memory controller and 256 or 512 MBs of memory. This depends of the Vendor specific designs. Its estimated retail price is suppose to settle around $179 but we recon it will sell for 20 more.

Geforce 8600 GT - again a mainstream chip - will end up with 48 stream processors and 350 MHz core clock. The memory will work at 1200 MHz and the card will have 256 bit memory controller and 128MB or 256 MB of ram. It should sell for $149 and this is a good price for DirectX10 part.

This card will replace 7900GTs and GS and 7600 cards. These cards are scheduled for February announcement if not March but the chips are already sampled.