NVIDIA releases G92-powered GeForce 8800 GT

Monday 29th October 2007, 03:03:00 PM, written by Geo

The newest kid on the GPU block, NVIDIA's G92, made its debut today powering GeForce 8800 GT SKUs. Performance-wise, a cross section of reviews suggest slotting between the current 8800 GTS and 8800 GTX products. NVIDIA reports price expectations in the $199-$249 range, but early checking at such retailers who actually have the board in stock shows street pricing to currently be in the $269+ range. Early reports of world-wide availability also seem to be fairly characterized as "spotty at best".

Beyond3D expects to provide full coverage of the new part once we've had a bit more time with it --for now, our editor files the following initial impressions:

Architecture and GPU Musings

* Very similar instruction issue rates compared to G8x products, depending on what you're measuring and comparing to. So no major cluster or SFU changes compared to older chips that I can tell as yet. Not finished there though.
* No double precision in hardware it seems. Ergo, no DP in 2007 for NVIDIA, one assumes.
* Minor scheduler/load balancing changes to favour certain executing conditions.
* 8 TA and 8 TF per cluster, with some odd results as you've already been pushing around in this thread.
* C/Z compression improvements at certain settings. Explains some of the perf versus GTS you might have seen.
* It's an 8 cluster GPU or I'll eat your hat, my hat, and the hat's hat.
* 256-bit, 16 ROPs, same Z-only rate as G8x.
* 600/1500/900 is pretty much very conservative in all areas.
* 17.5x18mm @ 734Mt @ 65nm.
* Maybe L1 is bigger. Maybe.
* PCIe Gen2. But maybe not the full spec, still figuring that one out.

8800 GT Board Thoughts

* NVIDIA thermal solution engineers need to take off the earmuffs and nuke the wax buildup. I hate saying that.
* Fast with games at 1080p and IQ upper pills popped.

In the meantime, feel free to enjoy the thoughts of our friends at The Tech Report on NVIDIA's newest.

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Latest Thread Comments (277 total)
Posted by Morgoth the Dark Enemy on Wednesday, 26-Dec-07 18:16:00 UTC
Quoting ShaidarHaran
I of course meant products that are branded Foxconn, not simply products made by them. I know quite well Foxconn makes just about every component out there.
Never heard about the Foxconn Mars, eh?Check it out and come back and tell us which self respecting enthusiast would use that;)

Posted by ShaidarHaran on Wednesday, 26-Dec-07 19:39:15 UTC
Quoting Morgoth the Dark Enemy
Never heard about the Foxconn Mars, eh?Check it out and come back and tell us which self respecting enthusiast would use that;)
I've heard of it, but wouldn't buy it. At that point I'd just buy an Asus board, and I don't even like Asus. I'm an Abit/Gigabyte man :p

Posted by Morgoth the Dark Enemy on Wednesday, 26-Dec-07 20:47:58 UTC
Quoting ShaidarHaran
I've heard of it, but wouldn't buy it. At that point I'd just buy an Asus board, and I don't even like Asus. I'm an Abit/Gigabyte man :p
Your loss. The Mars is awesome, and it was designed by Shamino, which by itself is somewhat of an endorsement. For what it's worth, if their X38/X48 parts are just as good, they'll likely be the best out there, maybe even better than the Maximuses. The idea is that they've formed a new group within Foxconn that focuses on enthusiasts, and if the Mars is any indication on how they'll work out they'll be fabulous. Too bad it's a pussy arsed P35 and I have no use for that:D

No more O/T, sorry bout that!

Posted by Fu3lFr3nzy on Friday, 28-Dec-07 02:22:48 UTC
I dont know what happened to supply and demand, but everyday I go to newegg and theres always a handful of 8800GT's available, which is sorta surprising since some have speculated it will remain dry for the rest of the holiday season.Has nvidia finally managed to ramp up the production or has almost everyone who wanted an 8800GT finally bought one so theres a decent selection now?

Posted by AnarchX on Friday, 28-Dec-07 12:30:20 UTC
*Shootout: 8800 GT 1024MB vs 512MB vs 256MB @ Expreview*

http://www.expreview.com/review/2007-12-28/1198817531d7392_14.html

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Posted by Fu3lFr3nzy on Saturday, 29-Dec-07 04:38:17 UTC
The 512 and 1GB are almost neck to neck in many of the benches, so the added 512 isnt necessary then :eek:

Posted by kyleb on Saturday, 29-Dec-07 07:58:00 UTC
Average framerate figures don't show massive framerate drops that come with having to swap textures in and out of VRAM on a card that doesn't have enough to hold them all locally. Where the framerates are a few precent better on the 1GB card, that is often the result of occasional but nasty framerate drops that come with texture thrashing.

Posted by fellix on Saturday, 29-Dec-07 10:11:43 UTC
256/512/1024 - now add the new GS boards with 384 and 768MB of RAM and the whole range will be covered at once! :lol:

Posted by vertex_shader on Friday, 04-Jan-08 13:24:42 UTC
Quote
Inno3D (http://en.expreview.com/?p=163) unveils a new 8800GT “Shark”. The card is reference designed, with the giant APACK Hurricane HC92 Cu 8800 VGA cooler. Shark is factory overclocked to 700/1625/2000MHz(core/shader/mem).
Image: http://www.expreview.com/img/news/2008/01/04/image002.jpg

This card is a beauty :smile:

Posted by Pressure on Sunday, 06-Jan-08 15:10:13 UTC
Quoting Fu3lFr3nzy
The 512 and 1GB are almost neck to neck in many of the benches, so the added 512 isnt necessary then :eek:
As much as I hate to say it but it does not really come as a surprise. The Radeon HD 2900XT 1GB was another example of how the bigger framebuffer did not increase performance. I am sure when newer games arrive it may start to make a difference (of course) but for now the 512MB cards seem to be ideal.By the way, what is this?
Quoting Fu3lFr3nzy
B3D tip #1: If youre new here, forget everything you know and start reading. Dont post, just read.
Besides the obvious grammatical errors and implications of what is actually being said, I have to wonder what makes you state something, an sorry for the language, profoundly stupid as this? The number of posts do not translate into some sort of intelligent behavior.


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