Friday, November 03, 2006

NVIDIA GEFORCE 8800 GTX and 8800 GTS cards hit the market soon


Nvidia's Geforce 8800 series cards uses G 80 chip. G 80 is the eighth generation GPU of the Geforce family. These cards will support DirectX 10. DirectX 10 is the new version of direct x 9.0 implemented in Windows Vista by Microsoft. Windows Vista is the only O.S to support DX 10. Windows XP users can not install it. Geforce 8800 series cards supports Shader Model 4.0.

8800 GTX has 128 pixel pipelines clocked at 1350 MHZ and 8800 GTS has 96 pipelines clocked at 1200 MHZ. Where as ATI's X1950XTX has 48 pixel pipelines and Geforce 7900 GTX has 32 pixel pipelines. 8800 GTX requires 450 W power supply where as 8800 GTS requires 400 W power supply.

8800 GTX core clock will be clocked at 575 MHZ where as 8800 GTS core clock will be clocked at 500 MHZ.

8800 GTX cards have 768 MB GDDR3 memory clocked at 900 MHZ where as 8800 GTS cards have 640 MB GDDR3 memory clocked at 900 MHZ.

8800 GTX cards have 384 bit memory interface and memory bandwidth of 86Gb/Second where as 8800 GTS cards have 320 bit memory interface and memory bandwidth of 64 GB/Second.

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