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9800 GTX specs are out

by on13 March 2008

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Leaked slides reveals it all

VR-Zone has a forum post full of slides about the upcoming Geforce 9800 GTX and they confirm a retail price of between US$299-349. Time will tell if this price point will actually be met at launch and we're only some 12 days away, as the official launch date is meant to be the 25th of March.

One interesting aspect is that Nvidia is all of a sudden talking about processor cores, rather than Shader pipelines, and according to said presentation the 9800 GTX has 128 processors cores clocked at 1.69GHz. This might be part of the Intel battle getting out in the open, but don't believe the marketing hype, that's all we can say. The GPU will be clocked at 675MHz and the memory at 1.1GHz. The first cards will use 512MB of GDDR3 memory.

The 9800 GTX needs a pair of 6-pin PCIe power connectors and it draws no less than 156W. The card measures 267mm long and it has a new dual slot cooler. Interestingly enough, Nvidia is pitching this single GPU card against the AMD Radeon 3870 X2, which seems like a somewhat odd comparison. We know the 9800 GX2 will be faster than the 3870 X2, but can a single GPU card really beat a dual GPU card?

You can check out the slides here which also include some Nvidia benchmark figures, but strangely enough, the 9800 GTX hasn't been compared to anything but itself. There's also some 3-Way SLI benchmarks, as this is the new 3-Way SLI card set to replace the 8800 GTX.
Last modified on 14 March 2008
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