Gainward produce GeForce 8600 GT with 1GiB VRAM

Wednesday 15th August 2007, 11:11:00 AM, written by Rys

Gainward have announced a GeForce 8600 GT with 1024MiB of framebuffer memory. "For what reason?", we hear you ask. Well, erm........

Any reasonably in-depth graphics analysis will likely conclude that the use of a 1GiB framebuffer on a GeForce 8600 GT is a bit of a daft idea for the current modern gamer, compared to the 512MiB next step down. We don't think there's any argument from anyone there.

So let's call the Gainward Bliss 8600 GT 1024MB TV DD a look to the future, more than a current necessity. Gainward currently advertise the Bliss 8600 GT 1024MB TV DD with DDR2 or GDDR3, depending on where you look on the page, but it seems 500MHz DDR2 using multiple ranks is what the G84 GPU will see, which is down on the 700MHz of a reference GeForce 8600 GT.

GPU base clock is 600MHz, though, which is up on the reference clock of 540MHz, but there's no word on whether the hot clock gets a boost as well. Price looks to be around $250 when it finally goes on sale.

Thanks to X-bit labs for the tip.

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