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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 & 8500 Preview... |
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NVIDIA
announced their new mainstream GeForce 8 Series based on the new 80nm G84 and
G86 GPUs. |
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The new line-up of GPUs actually conists of five different offerings.
The 8600 GTS is the most powerful
mainstream GPU, followed by |
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the 8600 GT. There is also an 8500 GT, which will not feature a seperate SLI connector,
but will be capable of the graphic card standard |
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from NVIDIA using PCI-E transfers. The company will also be offering a GeForce
8300 GS and 8400 GS to OEMs only to integrate into |
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| Specifications |
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| 8800
GTX | 8800 GTS
640MB | 8800 GTS
320MB | 8600
GTS | 8600 GT
| 8500 GT |
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| GPU | G80 | G80 | G80 | G84 | G84 | G86 |
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| Transistors | 681
M | 681
M | 681
M | 289
M | 289
M | 210
M |
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| GPU
Process size | 90
nm | 90
nm | 90
nm | 80
nm | 80
nm | 80
nm |
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| Shader
Model | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 |
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| Pixel
Shaders | 128 | 96 | 96 | 32 | 32 | 16 |
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| Vertex
Pipes |
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| ROP
(#) | 24 | 20 | 20 | 8
| 8
| 4 |
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| Memory
Interface | 384
bit | 320
bit | 320
bit | 128
bit | 128
bit | 128
bit |
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| Memory
Size | 768
MB | 640
MB | 320
MB | 256/512
MB | 256
MB | 256
MB |
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| Memory
Type | GDDR3 | GDDR3 | GDDR3 | GDDR3 | GDDR3 | DDR2 |
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| Core
Clock | 575
MHz | 500
MHz | 500
MHz | 675
MHz | 540
MHz | 450
MHz |
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| Memory
Clock | 900
MHz | 800
MHz | 800
MHz | 1000
MHz | 700
MHz | 400
MHz |
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| Shader
Clock | 1350
MHz | 1200
MHz | 1200
MHz | 1450
MHz | 1180
MHz | 900
MHz |
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| Interface | PCI-E | PCI-E | PCI-E | PCI-E | PCI-E | PCI-E |
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