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Looks like NVIDIA couldn't hold the news of the 8800GS tight before CES and the cat is now out of the bag. All sorts of leaks on this card this afternoon and evening. With 96 stream processors it's nothing that is going to compete with 8800GT series, but it will cost less. There will be a GeForce 8800GS with 384MB and another with 768MB. The memory interface is 192-bit, which is also smaller than the 256-bit bus found on the 8800GT series.
This 384MB 8800GS is the card we received today. We will receive 768MB version soon. All these cards we’ve seem is products by Palit. but later eVGA, XFX, and ASUS will also have 8800GS products.
The core on the GeForce 8800GS 384MB is said to be clocked at 575/1700MHz, which is slightly lower than the 8800GT as it is 600/1800MHz. The GeForce 8800GS 768MB edition is said to have an astonishing clock frequency of 650/1900MHz. Notice the core is stamped G92 G8800GS-768GD3 standard version G8800GS-384GD3 standard version This picture shows the other core - G92-150. This means both the G8800GS-768GD3 and G8800GS-384GD3 use the same core. The G8800GS-768GD3 used 1.0ns DDR3 high speed graphics memory used Samsung IC's G8800GS-384GD3 used Qimonda IC's
More info can be found here if you can read Chinese.

"gasp"

Yet more models? This is rather ridiculous how many variations of the same card Nvidia is putting out. I thought the next card was supposed to be their 9800 series? Its like they are trying to confuse people on purpose with all these variations... some even have the same name.

These cards pictured here are quite ugly in my opinion anyways.

why would they release a "low end" card with 768mb of memory

maj0r_pawnage wrote:why would they release a "low end" card with 768mb of memory

I would guess because of how big the monitors have been getting. I have a 22" widescreen now and know a LOT of people on 24" and even bigger lcd tvs and plasmas that could benefit a bit from the extra memory ;)

Mike

benchmarks, benchmarks, benchmarks - me and the bots want to put them to the test dammit.

yeah but can their crappy cores even use close to 768mb vram lol

maj0r_pawnage wrote:yeah but can their crappy cores even use close to 768mb vram lol

More = Better

...right?

but it will cost less.

whats the price range we are looking at? the 100s,200s,still 300s or even sub 100?

I might consider buying one if they are sub $200. I need something with more Memory, I am using my 26" HDTV.