NVIDIA debuts cooler, cheaper, smaller GeForce 8800 GT

Even if it's smaller, cooler, and cheaper than its higher end brethren, that unfortunately doesn't mean it's better: the formerly G92-codenamed NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT sits in the middle of the 8800-series with a single slot configuration that uses 100 Watts less power than the top of the range model, but with a lower clock speed and six less "stream processors." It's a fair bit higher spec than the GTX and GTS models though, with the same "stream processor" (what the hell are these?) clock speed as the Ultra at 1500MHz, and a memory frequency of 900MHz. It also supports PCIe 2.0 and the PureVideo HD engine which offloads H.264 encoding onto the GPU. It sells for between $199-249, and should be available within the next few days at the usual online stores.

[roach Posted Oct 29th 2007 1:51PM]

Cool! I was going to get OC 8800GTS. Maybe, for a few bucks more I'll two of these, via SLI!

[thetinguy Posted Oct 29th 2007 2:30PM]

Stream Processor have the ability to either be pixel shaders or vertex shaders depending on what is needed by the game.

[NightBlade Posted Oct 29th 2007 2:36PM]

Or geometry shaders.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 29th 2007 2:47PM]

Yea, i get you were joking. Im just being an ass.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 29th 2007 2:52PM]

Why does hitting the reply button cause my browser to refresh, send me down to the comment section, but not display the replying to until i hit reply again?

Third time already.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 29th 2007 2:59PM]

NOBODY can say PC gaming is too expensive now.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 29th 2007 3:18PM]

yes they can...this option just makes it a little bit more affordable :D Definitely looking forward to this card!

[DustoMan Posted Oct 29th 2007 3:39PM]

I might wait until after Christmas when the prices level out and pick one of these up to replace my 8600GTS in my Dell. This looks like a killer deal.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 29th 2007 3:42PM]

Just imagine two of these cards in SLI - it'd definitely out-do the GTX for the same price as one and maybe not be super far behind the Ultra.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 29th 2007 3:52PM]

Anyone know if any of the 88xx cards allow video input? All I see are video out.As for this card, great price vs performance but isn't nvidia releasing some newer models soon?

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 29th 2007 5:23PM]

Good Thing I held off on my new rig I was about to purchase & build last month. This is a sweet deal, but I can find the cheapest one for $260 at the usual places... hopefully it'll reach the $200 price point soon.

[AR Posted Oct 29th 2007 8:09PM]

Lowest I've seen is $229 at Fry's

http://shop3.outpost.com/product/5434329

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 30th 2007 3:45PM]

Stream processing is very new, and should be a technique which we will see used more often in the days to come. Check out what WikiPedia has to offer about the subject.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_processing

Cheers,
Josh

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 29th 2007 6:38PM]

Umm, so does this mean the price is going to drop on the GTX? I could really stand to drop a second one of those in my comp before Crysis comes out.

[MasterCKO Posted Oct 29th 2007 7:32PM]

Dear Nvidia,

Thank you.

Master 'strapped for space in his case' CKO