We learned that Nvidia plans a new card that will be branded as Geforce 9800 GT. For all we know this could simply be a renamed 8800 GT. We strongly believe that Nvidia will quickly phase out all the 8800 GT cards and simply rename it with a new old card.

The new thing that comes with Geforce 9 series is the ability to shut down under hybrid power marchitecture, and this might be the biggest difference between 8800 GT and the upcoming 9800 GT.

We  would suspect a bit higher clock, over 600MHz, but we are quite sure that as soon as partners sell them out Nvidia will quietly replace 8800 GTS with 9800 GTX, and 8800 GT with 9800 GT. The only other thing that comes to our minds is that a new 9800 GT might support Three-way SLI.