NVIDIA's GeForce 8500, 8400 and 8300 SKUs using G86
Tuesday 17th April 2007, 03:03:00 PM, written by Rys
To pair with today's official release of G84 and the GeForce 8600 GTS and 8600 GT, NVIDIA have also set free other products based on G84's low-end counterpart, G86. We've got the details on the SKUs, where they'll appear and what they support.
G86 itself is a 210M transistor chip on 80nm, with one G84-style cluster and two ROP partitions, with PureVideo HD support.
8500 GT runs 450/900/400MHz base/shader/mem clocks and has the chip in full configuration, with 256MiB of framebuffer. It'll be available in the channel at the end of the month.
8400 GS uses G86 at the same clocks as 8500 GT, but with only one ROP partition active and thus a 64-bit external memory interface. It supports PureVideo HD and 128MiB or 256MiB framebuffer configs.
8300 GS is G86 at the same clocks at 8500 GT and 8400 GS, but with half the single shader cluster disabled, only one ROP channel and doesn't support PureVideo HD, just PureVideo (whatever that means as NVIDIA configure the SKU's software solution as they see fit).
8400 GS and 8300 GS are shipping to OEMs now and will appear in their SKUs at the end of the month/early May.
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