Video Cards & GPUs - Page 476

The lads at PCOnline have chosen to jump the gun a little on NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce 9800 GX2 graphics card, set to be launched in less than a week from now. They've posted up a whole bunch of benchmark runs with the dual-G92 monster in conjunction with an Intel QX6850 CPU at 3.0 GHz on ASUS' Striker II Formula motherboard and an early supported (ForceWare 173.67) beta driver.

It seems as if no graphic card is safe at the moment - there is no hiding - especially during the CeBIT trade show in Germany.

Curtsey of some folks from China, we get a up-close view of the upcoming Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX graphics card which should release before the end of this month if we are not mistaken.

Nvidia's upcoming single GPU monster is based on a 65nm G92 chip and will replace the current GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB as the fastest single GPU card on the market. There are no details on pricing yet but it is stripped naked for public viewing right here.

Enjoy, you perv!

AMD has released details about its forthcoming ATI Catalyst 8.3 display driver which is due out anytime now for users of Windows Vista. Keep an eye on the AMD Game website for more.

Yesterday photos of Albatron's upcoming GeForce 9800 GX2 surfaced in their booth at CeBIT and today we were emailed official product marketing snaps of the upcoming dual-GPU single PCB graphics card which is due to go on sale March 18 or thereabouts.

Apparently Nvidia board partners are allowed to display GX2 products but are not allowed to discuss performance numbers and specifications.

So, without further ado...

Our friends over at PCGH in Germany are reporting that MSI are about to launch a GeForce 9600GT graphics cards with wait for it... not 512MB or 1GB of onboard RAM but a huge 2GB! Zotac and MSI already have 1GB versions of the 9600GT out but MSI one upped them. Not only that, it is also dished up with a side of Display Port.

It is unclear if this is one of those products that are designed as a technology showcase or if the Taiwanese company will actually begin selling it. With CeBIT just about to open its doors, we have no idea.

Nvidia's remainder GeForce 9 series graphics cards have had their fair share of rumors around the forums lately.

DigiTimes goes a step further and confirms most of it. We believe what they are saying as it matches most of what we have heard from our company contacts.

As you know, the mainstream performance 9600 GT was just released and will be followed by the 9800 GX2 (two G92 GTS 512MB cores) on March 11. The GX2 will be followed by the GeForce 9800 GTX and 9800 GT between the end of March and beginning of April.

As for Nvidia's mid-range products, the 9600 GS is said to arrive in May while the lower-end 9500 GT (based on the G96 graphics core with a reduced 128-bit memory interface) will arrived around Computex time in July and will be followed by the 9500 GS in July.

Busy times ahead!

It is amazing that Nvidia has not got on top of this yet.

Online retailer Take 2 in South Africa have the Chaintech GeForce 9600GT listed on its website for $2,107 Rand which is equal to about $275 USD. We managed to take a screenshot of the website before it is taken down.

Nvidia's upcoming GeForce 9600GT graphics card is not due to be released for at least a few weeks but that has not stopped the folks over at CHIPHELL in China having fun with pre-release samples that they managed to get their hands on.

Back over at CHIPHELL in China, one of their forum users has managed to get their hands on a 55nm and DX 10.1 based mid-range Sapphire Radeon HD 3690 graphics card.

AMD has just announced the HD 3650, 3450 and 3470 yesterday which should begin selling very soon if not already but it is so far unclear when the faster HD 3670 and 3690 models will go on sale.

Well well, can't say we weren't expecting this to happen. Not long after NVIDIA's announcement regarding their new 3-way SLI technology someone's smashed the 3DMark03 ORB with a world record score of 103,888 points using an EVGA, MSI & Leadtek GeForce 8800 Ultra @ 720/1760/1180MHz, this with a Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 @ 4706MHz.