G92 Future Plans?

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Is there a "master plan" that Nvdia has for the G92 chip? I really like the new 8800GT and am seriously considering buying it, but I have heard rumors about a new, upgraded 8800GTS (with 128 streams), and that seems like it would be better than the current cards out, even the Ultra, just because it can overclock so much more.

Basically, I want to know if there is anything showing what all the upcoming cards will be.

Also, is that 1 Teraflop 9000 series scrapped, or is that also near future?
 
Even so, with the 8800GT getting close to the GTX as it is, I imagine the new GTS will be able to surpass it with the much higher clock rates.

Any other cards people know about? Also, when is the predicted release date for the new GTS?

Edit: I just checked and it looks like the GTS will not be receiving a G92 upgrade, just more streams on the same chip. Is there any other G92 cards planned currently?
 
Nvidia pretty much officially scrapped G9X meaning 9-series as the G92 was a die-shrink + improvement on the G80 and as we know, its the 8800GT and not the 9800 or even the 8900.

What is likely to happen at this point, IMO, is that they make a GX2 card with 2 8800GT's strung together, which would put the card right near a 1TFp theoretical power (as the 8800GT is already close to 500 per) and if you think about it, it would make sense. 512-bit bus, 1GB RAM, etc.

Then sometime early next year release the actual 9-series generation. Whether that one will actually be a new architecture or a even further evolution of the current G9X chips, remains to be seen.
 
tuksonrider said:
Rumor has it that the GTS will only get 16 more pipes bringin it to 112. GTX still has 128.
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Not rumor. Kyle himself said that BFG told him that Nvidia called and said that officially today the 8800GTS comes with 112 stream processors. I think this was at the end of the 8800GT review.

Only question remains is if they are able somehow to just "activate" the extra sp's or if new chips are coming..................
 
IIRC the SP blocks that were disabled on the older GTS's actually had a physical laser etch-out of lanes they didn't want access to so I don't think you can simply activate them as its a physical disconnect
 
wrangler said:
Not rumor. Kyle himself said that BFG told him that Nvidia called and said that officially today the 8800GTS comes with 112 stream processors. I think this was at the end of the 8800GT review.

Only question remains is if they are able somehow to just "activate" the extra sp's or if new chips are coming..................
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On the news page now...and I would not count on activating any SPs.
 
Also, has anyone heard if a manufacturer is going to add a larger memory controller to the 8800GT as a special edition. I think SLI 1GB 8800GT's would be...well, completely awesome.
 
ZerazaX said:
Nvidia pretty much officially scrapped G9X meaning 9-series as the G92 was a die-shrink + improvement on the G80 and as we know, its the 8800GT and not the 9800 or even the 8900.

What is likely to happen at this point, IMO, is that they make a GX2 card with 2 8800GT's strung together, which would put the card right near a 1TFp theoretical power (as the 8800GT is already close to 500 per) and if you think about it, it would make sense. 512-bit bus, 1GB RAM, etc.

Then sometime early next year release the actual 9-series generation. Whether that one will actually be a new architecture or a even further evolution of the current G9X chips, remains to be seen.
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That would be cool, so that would be called 8850GTX or something ?? A dual core 8800GT, on one VideoCard ?? I like that good idea, wonder if it would really be 2x the performance of the 8800GT or only like 75%, and would it need an SLi board to work or speicial SLI drivers/options, or just work out of the box like one big massive fast card ??
 
It seems nearly 100% likely the 640MB GTS will get a refresh and end up faster than the GT by a small ish amount (maybe 10% very rough unfounded wild guess), but when you consider the price of the GT, there is no way you can go wrong. The GTS will likely to be $100 more ish as well.

I would ONLY wait for a top end refresh, ie if I was looking at getting a GTX.
 
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