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NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX

by Planet Lowyat on 02/04/08 at 12:12 am

NVIDIA is officially taking the wraps off of their new GeForce 9800 GTX card based on the company’s G92 graphics processor today.

With the GeForce 8800 GTX’s excellent pedigree, the new GeForce 9800 GTX certainly has some pretty big shoes to fill. Its name alone will make many users assume the GeForce 9800 GTX is NVIDIA’s new flagship single GPU powered graphics card.

As you can see, on some levels the GeForce 9800 GTX is very similar to the GeForce 8800 GTX. They both have a 10.5″ PCB and are equipped with 128 stream processor cores and dual 6-pin PCI Express power connectors. As we’ve already mentioned though, the GeForce 9800 GTX is based on the newer 65nm G92 GPU, as opposed to the 90nm G80. As such, the 9800 GTX is outfitted with only a 256-bit memory interface and a 512MB frame buffer. If you recall, the 8800 GTX has a 384-bit interface with a 768MB frame buffer. The 9800 GTX somewhat makes up for this through the use of faster 1.1GHz memory (2.2GHz) effective, that results in over 70GB/s of peak memory bandwidth, but it doesn’t quite match the 8800 GTX in this department.

Probably you can get one in Best Buy and the priced at $360 for 512MB versions. How about Plaza Lowyat or Plaza Imbi?

Source: HotHardware