GeForce 9800GTX performs similarly to a GeForce 8800GTS

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The GeForce 9 series will add another member soon and that is the GeForce 9800 GTX card.

This reference cards comes in a dimension of 4.376x10.5 inch. GPU is clocked at 675MHz while the Shader is at 1685MHz. It has a memory interface of 256 bits wide and incorporates 512MB of 0.8ns GDDR3.

The card supports 3 way SLI and it uses a reference design. Total power requirement for this card would be 168W.

The card supports DX10 and SM4.0.

Initial benchmark shows that this card performs similar to a GeForce 8800GTS. The difference in most games are merely 1 to 2 fps. It is quite disappointing to say for a new card that doesn't show much improvements over the previous 8 generation card.

[T8RR8R]

That's pretty sad given that ATI is supposed to really ramp up performance on there R770 chips compared to the R670 chips. Even the R670 chips are very good competitors to the 8800GT and 8800GTS512.

Since the 8800GTS512 is only going to have similar performance doesn't that mean the 9800GTX is already a flop? I mean why buy something new if it does the same thing as something they already have out. I'm also guessing the 9800GTX will be more expensive and therefore pointless. Oh yeah unless you want triple SLI. The only way triple SLI makes sense is if you want to grab another 9800GTX next year and then another a year after that so you can just keep up, but all that seems pretty pointless too because you could probably just get the new big thing in a year or 2 and probably be 2 times as fast and spent half the total amount of money. Yes that was a run on sentence.

[konman43]

Originally Posted by T8RR8R

That's pretty sad given that ATI is supposed to really ramp up performance on there R770 chips compared to the R670 chips. Even the R670 chips are very good competitors to the 8800GT and 8800GTS512.

Since the 8800GTS512 is only going to have similar performance doesn't that mean the 9800GTX is already a flop? I mean why buy something new if it does the same thing as something they already have out. I'm also guessing the 9800GTX will be more expensive and therefore pointless. Oh yeah unless you want triple SLI. The only way triple SLI makes sense is if you want to grab another 9800GTX next year and then another a year after that so you can just keep up, but all that seems pretty pointless too because you could probably just get the new big thing in a year or 2 and probably be 2 times as fast and spent half the total amount of money. Yes that was a run on sentence.

lol. feels kind of like... 7800gtx to 7900gt.... why not 8900 instead of 9800? i'm hoping ati brings a little more competition to the board. if there were sli matx mobos out there i'd be all nvidia by now. i'm guessing the rumored dfi matx mobos that were supposed to be released this year were just rumors then... since no one is reporting on it at all at cebit.

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There are still hopes for P45 matx boards. As you know P45 supports dual x8 PCIE2.0 slots. That's like haveing 2 x16 PCIe1.0a slots. Similar to the 680i or 680i Ultra. This should make things interesting to see. Just imagin 2x 3870x2's (quad 3870's) in a small form box. Crazy.

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Does P45 support SLI? Is dual 8x pcie 2.0 equivalent dual 16x in PCie 1.0?