Nvidia’s new G100 chip might get the Geforce 9800 name. We know its way to early for the final decision but still we got it from good sources that are supposed to know these things so much in advance.
It will be rather interesting in Q1 and Q2 as both ATI and Nvidia are supposed to launch two new high end parts each. In Q1 probably in January Nvidia is about to launch D8E, dual G92 card and ATI will reply with already demonstrated R680 card and later probably in Q2 ATI will follow up with R700 to fight G100.
We haven't seen any new high end cards since April and that is way to long for this market.
-Fudzilla.com http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?optio ... &Itemid=34According to current plans, NVIDIA plans to introduce its GeForce 9 series high-end part codenamed G100 around March 2008. We don't know many details, but we do know that the chipset should end up faster than two G92 dual PCB card which is scheduled for launch in late January. It will be on time to launch with G96, which is a mainstream part. The new NVIDIA chip will be a facelift of a G80 architecture but it won't be the same. It will have the support for DirectX 10.1 and Shader Model 4.1. The only other big difference compared to G80 generation is the new VP3 that should take care of video and HD content. We still don’t know the technology behind the chip but we heavily suspect 65nm chip
http://www.mvktech.net/content/view/3911/1/
the battle never ends, one time ATI beats nvidia to the tech., then nvidia beats ATI, then ATI beats nvidia, with the actual performance changing as frequently(nvidia currently dominating performance)
so two performance DX10.1, Shader 4.1 cards from two manufacturers slated for around the same time
(granted the 3800s have been recently released already) let the battle continue 
... for at least until '09 
