The Geforce 8800 GT and 8800 GTS 512MB G92-based cards will be hard to get for the remainder of the year. The chip is simply too good, the demand is incredible and there is little hope that Nvidia will ever recover from such a shortage.

Everyone wants an 8800 GT, as it is fast and affordable, although some power users will go for the 8800 GTS 512 to get better frame rate; but the G92 has really cast a long shadow over the year-old G80 generation and makes it seem quite obsolete.

The biggest problem that Nvidia faces now is that it doesn’t have a real high-end solution apart from the more than a year old 8800 GTX and Ultra cards, although the D8E should hopefully arrive in late January. However, it might be later than that.

Despite all this, we still believe that Nvidia is going to report record earnings this quarter, as it has sold its entire inventory of G92 chipsets.