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NVIDIA Strikes Back with New GeForce 8900 Series

NVIDIA is ready to deal with ATI's X2000 series

By Bogdan Solca, Hardware Editor

15th of February 2007, 14:09 GMT

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It seems that ATI is well ahead of NVIDIA when it comes to GPGPUs. Still, NVIDIA is working hard on its CUDA design, which may be released with the new GeForce 8900 series.

CUDA actually stands for Compute Unified Device Architecture. It is similar to ATI's Firestream GPGPU project, apparently being a fundamentally new computing micro-architecture for the GPU, in order to solve complex computational problems across consumer, business, and technical industries. CUDA can't really work without
an upcoming dual Geforce 8950 GX2 configuration, as these cards can deliver more computation power than current high-end server CPUs.

Although Nvidia entered the GPGPU market later than ATI, it looks like the Americans are quite happy with their G80 series general processing capabilities. As of now, G80 is still the fastest graphics chip on the market. It has 128 unified shaders and can process a lot of pixels. But those shaders aren't necessarily proficient at rendering complex graphics, as science calculations can easily be run on a graphics card disguised as a small shader program. Now, Geforce 8900 GTX is expected to have 25 percent more Shader power, and thus, dual Geforce 8950 GX2 configurations should provide a lot more Shader and Pixel power.

Chinese sources claim that the upcoming GeForce 8950GX2 card will sell for $599 USD. It is rumored to be the successor of the previous 7950GX2 and will come with a total of 512MB GDDR-4 memory per GPU. As part of the new 8900 series, NVIDIA plans to introduce the GeForce 8900GTX which will replace the current high-end 8800GTX. It will ship at a retail price of $549 USD and it will also see the inclusion of GDDR4 memory which allows NVIDIA to raise the clock speeds to outrageous 2200MHz frequencies. The power boost may also come from the new 80nm manufacturing process.

All this points to the fact that NVIDIA is already prepared for the AMD/ATI offensive. AMD/ATI is expected to take the covers off of their range of upcoming R600 graphics cards in a couple of weeks.


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Comment #1 by: Robert Jooste on 18 Jan 2008, 07:16 GMT reply to this comment

If the card is going to look like it does in the picture above, it's going to cause serious heat problems. unless Nvidia sorts out the cooling on it.

Lets hope they come up with some great Idea that works for the card. I would not eagerly get one before I know if it runs at normal temp.


Comment #2 by: apollo on 18 Jan 2008, 23:05 GMT reply to this comment

NVidia is currently in a technology espionage scam. PReventing users from further advancing their equipment with 1 gigabyte of solid ddr 4 video memory, or even 2 gigabytes of ddr3 video ram. They milk the poor pc gamers for every penny they can get their hands on , re-releasing the same card 5 or 6 times in one year making little to no improvements.

At the same time, microsoft has nvidia AND Ati under their money nipple. microsoft secretly has nvidia internally by the balls, and have threated loss of product support for windows vista operating systems if they make the ps3 graphics advancement beyond that of microsoft xbox360 graphics.

ITs quite obvious the internal sabotage microsoft is committed to applying to sony and the playstation 3. Games on ps3 can literally look 100% better, but , microsoft, being the greedy 666 toating beasts they are, have to resort to cheating, to compete with blu ray.

Tell your friends,

Xbox360 is so good that the majority of its users dont buy they games. They pirate them off the internet because thats how much they love microsoft. Where as, loyal sony supporters PAY for our unhacked, unhackable bluray games.

Comment #2.1 by: Kyle on 01 Mar 2008, 17:05 GMT

Did you just go off on a console rant because in a discussion about graphics cards? idiot.


Comment #3 by: joe on 29 Jan 2008, 21:19 GMT reply to this comment

yawn thats the 7950 gx2 so no... it wont look like that. But im sure they thought about cooling. Ive seen the "pics" of it and it looks pretty cool to me. and i think they will just make it part of the 9000 series, i thin ki heard 9800? yep!

and what is apollo talking about. LOL. What about the vista systems arldy out. they going to download a "no nvidia patch?" Hardware people MAKE things compatable with software most of the time, hence drivers and hardware software to override whatever microsoft has =] ...weird people.


Comment #4 by: chris gliddon on 08 Feb 2008, 22:53 GMT reply to this comment

hello imo the new 8900 sounds cool but ! its not as i am running 2x 7900 gto in sli with raid striping on a core 2 duo e66oo cpu , sounds impressive well thats not really but it was a year ago the 2 7900 look kool and deliver decent graphics but the 8900 imvho do not look kool just ugly and expensive .


thats just a matter of my opinion ,but u should look at the design of the 7900 and go from there imo they would sell like hot cakes if they look that good tbh looks arent every thing but if u want a high end pc and cost is not the object then looks matter a lot to me as my pc is cool with a thermaltake kandalf case and im look ing to upgrade on my gpu at some point so in the near future .
looks and performance for me are the ultimate not just performance maybe nvidia will improve its looks so i look forwards to what models come out in near future and gd luck nvidia u make great cards
urs honestly chris gliddon nvidia 7900 user ..cheers

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