New King of the Benchmarks? Probably.

I've had mine eVGA 8800GTX ACS3 KO edition since it came out (almost a year now), it was supplemendet by another GTX ACS3 KO, this autumn, and man do i really notice improvement.

It's not until Crysis and World In Conflict came out, that i was really able to see the RAW power og eVGA 8800 GTX ACS3 KO running in SLI on my beatiful Aplle 30" Screen. Running at beatifull 2560x1600 resolution. Awesome.


But now there a rumors about a new king comming to town, i first heard about 9800GTX in october, and release date was predicted to be around November 2007, now its soon january 2008 and nothing happend. I don't blame nvidia not releasing 980GTX that soon, there is no need to do it, cause 8800GTX and 8800Ultra are still kings, and 8800GTS 512MB edition is a good value for money card.

I still hope that they will release it soon, for a equipment junkie like me, i really need something new, so i can build a new system.

Here are specs for 9800GTX vs. 8800GTX (G92 specs are still just rumors):
G92
- 65nm process technology at TSMC.
- Over one billion transistors.
- Second Generation Unified Shader Architecture.
- Double precsion support (FP64).
- GPGPU native.
- Over one TeraFLOPS of shader processing power.
- MADD+ADD configuration for the shader untis (2+1 FLOPS=3 FLOPS per ALU)
- Fully Scalar design.
- 512-bit memory interface.
- 1024MB GDDR4 graphics memory.
- DirectX 10.1 support.
- OpenGL 3.0 Support.
- eDRAM die for "FREE 4xAA".
- built in Audio Chip.
- built in tesselation unit (in the graphics core"
- Improved AA and AF quality levels

G80

	GeForce 8800 GTX	GeForce 8800 GTS
Stream (Shader) Processors	128	96
Core Clock (MHz)	575	500
Shader Clock (MHz)	1350	1200
Memory Clock (MHz) x2	900	800
Memory amount	768 MB	640 MB
Memory Interface	384-bit	320-bit
Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec)	86.4	64
Texture Fill Rate (billion/sec)	36.8	24

So as you can see, as long as you have appropriate platform to support it, and by that i mean New Dual Core or Quad Core CPU, DDR3 Memory and a motherbord that supports PCI.X ver 2.0, it will probably be an ass kicker. Until than, i hope nVidia holds it back.



For whose who are interested here is my current setup:

Case: Lian-Li V1200BPLUSSII
Mainboard: Asus Striker Extreme s775
Power Supply: Enermax Galaxy 1000W
Memory: 4 GB Mushkin XP2-9200 4x1GB DDR2
CPU: Inter Core 2 Extreme x6800 (I know it’s old, but it damn good)
VGA: 2x eVGA 8800GTX KO ACS3 running in SLI
HDD: 2xWD RaptorX 150GB in Raid 0 SATA
HDD1: 2xSeagate 1TB (ST31000340NS) in Raid 0 SATA
Screen: Apple Cinema 30" + EIZO ColorEdge 24inW

OS: Dual boot Vista Ult. 64Bits and WinXP Pro 32Bits

It is still a damn good setup, but i experience FPS drops in Crysis below 30FPS everything set on ultra. So i think it's soon time to upgrade.