NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 pics, specs leaked

Details aren't quite hard and fast, but this is NVIDIA's top-of-the-line to-be, so it's never too early to start nerding out. HardOCP says the best way to think of the GeForce 9800 GX2 is a 8800 that's been shrunk down to 65nm and SLI'd onto a "single" card. The card is supposed to be at least 30% faster than a 8800 Ultra, and will apparently support Quad SLI. So, now for the really nerdy part:

• 1GB frame buffer
• Two PCBs
• Two 65nm GPUs
• 256 Stream Processors

That's the way HardOCP tells it, and who are we to argue?

[Via PC Perspective]

[juddy @ Jan 25th 2008 10:13PM]

you bunch of bloody wingers...go play on the swings or somthing, if you what to play the game the way you want to pay the bloody money or such it up lower the res.

[Kipa @ Jan 27th 2008 2:55PM]

Sweet!

A useless card that I can finally use to play Pong at about 5 billion fps!

Call me in a couple years when we have holographic gaming :P

[jedm @ Jan 28th 2008 1:16AM]

i'll just ask my doctor to upgrade my eyes so they can automatically adjust and enhance the resolution/fps/etc to the best possible, whether im playing games on pc/ps/xbox or just plain staring at the wall.. this way is a lot cheaper..

my doctor calls it eyevidia 9999gtgtxxxx SLI (of course i have 2 eyes)

[trialwords @ Jan 29th 2008 10:34AM]

I know this card is going to cost an arm and leg, but I have to buy a new video card and I'm a college student without a whole lot of money to spend, yet I'm an avid computer gamer. I haven't been used to the greatest graphics on my computer, I'm currently running a 8600 gts OC, but I have to get rid of it. I was considering getting a 8800 gt after having read the impressive comments on the new g92, and the 512mb is double what I have for now. After figuring out just recently that the 9 series is coming out within a month, I'm wondering if for around 220$ a 9 series card is going to get me a better card than the 8800 gt 512mb. Thanks.

[Brent @ Jan 30th 2008 10:42PM]

PC gaming hasnt died. xbox 360 only dx9. I still run a ati...x1950 pro... my advice is only upgrade when you can quadrupple or fifthtupple your graphic speed. my next video card will be extremely fast since i am prepared with a 850 Watt powersupply... you guys have to just know how to build computers.

[Joey @ Feb 10th 2008 2:02PM]

why shouldnt it be a teraflop? a certain someone just release terflop GPU...

[Kevin @ Jan 31st 2008 11:30AM]

Thats a Huge Bitch.

[Kevin @ Jan 31st 2008 11:34AM]

Thats a Huge Bitch, is it just me or just the video cards getting bigger and bigger every year. just curious.

[Kura @ Feb 5th 2008 4:14AM]

A single 8800 GTX Ultra will run Crysis in Very High with nice Anti aliasing no problem. This will be a nice beefy product but sadly with a pretty insane price tag.

[Donnyboy @ Feb 5th 2008 6:49PM]

LOL
i feel like i'm ancient lol

i have geforce 4 mx 440 128mb

[zio @ Feb 11th 2008 5:36PM]

Fast video cards are computing overkill, youre eyeballs dont see beyond 60fps at maximum resolution. its also pointless to buy an expensive video controller and have a slow hard drive because if your drive is slower than 100 MB/s Youll get gaming stutters no matter what v.card you buy. if youre serious about gaming get a 15k cheetah drive and an entry level video controller.

[JeffNunn @ Feb 27th 2008 3:44PM]

You obviously dont know anything about how it really works, because everything you said is erroneous

[Marvin @ Feb 10th 2008 6:11AM]

I have an laptop with Intel Pentium 4 HT. and 1.224 gig memory and an 128 mb ati x600 video card. and even I played crysis. I even play battlefield online. still I want a new computer. so I have to wait until this card comes out and I buy it for 500 euros.

[omen07 @ Feb 11th 2008 9:22PM]

What about two 10k raptors in raid 0, zio? is that serious enough?

[porschedrifter @ Feb 15th 2008 1:32PM]

"Kurian @ Jan 4th 2008 5:46AM

Only 30% faster is NO WHERE close to their claims of 1 teraflop (3x faster).

This is NOT GOING to run Crysis at Very High."

I hope you are kidding... My single 8800gts runs crysis fine on Very High.

[Tommo @ Feb 18th 2008 3:34PM]

Hi all, just thought i'd put in my 10cents.

The eye can only see 25 frames per second, which is real time video. this is the same as 50 fields per second. In us states where your mains is 60hz, real time video is 30 frames per second, wasting 5 frames as this is faster than the eye can see but easier to produce due to the mains frequency.

The only advantage that you get with higher frame rates in games is the response to your movement, it seems to move quicker. It does, but it will look no smooother than if it were running at 25 frames/sec.

I have a quad core system ,(Q6600) running at 2.7MHz. An 8800 Ultra and 8GB ram on a striker extreme MoBo under Vista 64 home premium. I would have SLI gfx if one of my ultras hadn't been faulty and currently away under RMA.

With just the single 8800 ultra, and letting Crysis auto configure my settings, (it chose very high on all) and it run smooth as hell with no problems. i didn't check the framerate as i was just seeing how it runs for my bro but it looked really good and i played it for a fair few hours. I use 1440x900.

This is a high end system, but there is a lot better than mine out there. the system only cost £1300 with the one card, (i added the other due to my original going faulty). This is not a lot of money for a system of this spec and can be easily achieved by purchasing the items seperatly and not buying shop built. yes the price is in £ and not $ as i live in the UK. Basically if you want the best you can get then you are going to have to spend the money for it, if you want good and stable for a few years then buy decent high end equipment and you wont go far wrong.

As for consoles, i love them also and prefer them for some games, but they dont touch a PC in terms of performance and graphics. My consoles are for partys and my PC for serious gaming. You cannot really compare the 2 as they are leagues apart and so they should be for the price difference.

this new card seems great as it sounds like it costs the same as an 8800Ultra currently does. So wait a month and get 30% increase for the same price as the ultra must be a good thing for all.

Oh and to add a final note to my babble.....My RMA is on pause due to EVGA having no 8800Ultras to replace my card with, and they say not likely to get any more as the new card should be out next month. They say that i may get the new one if they can't locate an ultra for me by then. Due to EVGA stating this, then i belive the release date should be real soon even though there is no confirmed info about this on the web.

[alfadog @ Feb 23rd 2008 12:16AM]

well.. at least it only takes up one slot.... so with people with on pci-e mobo they can get this :)

[J3llyf1sh @ Mar 13th 2008 8:08PM]

i think it takes 2. also looks like the connector bit is in the middle which could help with SLI setups or if you have PCI cards

[racqueteer68 @ Mar 16th 2008 8:59PM]

Here's a link to an early review of the 9800 and I do not like what I read about it. Why even bother releasing this card then?

http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/1331/nvidia_s_geforce_9800_gx2_early_test/index.html

[BladeSling @ Jan 4th 2008 1:22AM]

damn... damn...

[Kurian @ Jan 4th 2008 5:46AM]

Only 30% faster is NO WHERE close to their claims of 1 teraflop (3x faster).

This is NOT GOING to run Crysis at Very High.

[Ruben @ Jan 4th 2008 9:29AM]

Actually, with quad-sli, it will hit a teraflop. They said the core will be able to hit a teraflop, but they didnt say a "single core".

Besides, who cares if it can hit a teraflop. The R600 hits 450 GFlops (compared to the G80's 330GFlops) and that doesnt allow it to beat the 8800GTX in almost every game.

[V3LOCIP3D3 @ Jan 4th 2008 11:51AM]

Kurian this will be able to run Crysis on very high no problem. If you did it right, you could run crysis on very high with SLi 7800s. My gaming computer is an X2 3800+ with only 1gb of ram and a 256mb X800 GT, and I can run crysis on lower settings fine.

[Josh @ Jan 5th 2008 5:33PM]

Bear in mind that this is probably not the official "9 Series" as we have come to know it. This is most likely a product like the 7950 was for the 7 series. I would expect, and i don't know if i'm right, that Nvidia will leave this as a super high end 8 series product and then wait a couple of months to release the next generation of the GeForce series.

The product cycle for each X series is roughly 14-18 months, so Q2 is a fair estimate for these fabled 1 TeraFLOP cards to be released. Also bear in mind that AMD-ATi haven't yet released anything that really rivals the 8 series in terms of raw power. It's like Intel vs AMD, Intel sees no reason to release the Quad core Penryns in full until there is significant competition from AMD - Phenom is rather laclustre at the moment compared to the Core 2 Duos.

And finally, the 8800GT's were codenamed G92, so 9 isn't necessarily an indicator of series name.

That's just my opinion, i may be proved wrong but hey!

[Devon @ Jan 4th 2008 1:25AM]

dang, nice card. I wanna hear about the power consumption though.

[4honor @ Jan 4th 2008 7:44AM]

I want to hear the price!

[a ham sandwich @ Jan 4th 2008 8:35AM]

eesh 4honor, you sure? :P

[Alan Partridge @ Jan 4th 2008 8:35AM]

^ You really don't

[mushyho @ Jan 7th 2008 11:13PM]

according to Tom's Hardware its gonna be around 449
http://www.tomshardware.com/2008/01/05/exclusive_nvidia_geforce_9800gx2/

[Nacio @ Jan 4th 2008 2:20AM]

DOOM!

[Josh @ Jan 4th 2008 1:02PM]

I suppose it might be able to run it... just maybe

[Blacksheep @ Jan 4th 2008 9:31AM]

That thing is sweet, wonder if my 620 watt Corsair PSU can handle it though?

[Benny @ Jan 4th 2008 1:31AM]

glad i din't pay to buy the 8800 now that the 9 series is out.

[sam @ Jan 4th 2008 1:31AM]

ah time to upgrade

[waiownsyou @ Jan 4th 2008 1:30AM]

Son of a bitch! And I just got this 8800 GTS too!

[producerism @ Jan 4th 2008 7:36AM]

isn't the GTS worse than the regular GT? More memory, but slower... right?

[Ruben @ Jan 4th 2008 8:58AM]

Not if its the 512MB version. That card is really good. You can probably pick up another 8800GTS 512 and end up with an equivalent to this card, except without the possibility of quad-sli (but considering the price of one of these will easily be greater than 2 or even 3 GTS's, would you care?).

[Andy @ Jan 4th 2008 3:58PM]

The GS and the older GTS (G80) are slower. But the new GTS (G92) is faster.

[IseWise @ Jan 4th 2008 1:32AM]

So is this the card that lets you play Crysis?

[UKNigel @ Jan 4th 2008 2:16AM]

Yes, but only on the lowest settings. :P

[michas_pi @ Jan 4th 2008 2:50AM]

No, this is the card that lets you play the ending to Crysis on anything above low.

[Moof @ Jan 4th 2008 1:34AM]

w00t time to step up to this baby!

[thethirdmoose @ Jan 4th 2008 1:34AM]

and im still on a 9200 :(
except an ati 9200 :(
theres no difference, right? guys?

[Mobius_1 @ Jan 4th 2008 4:32AM]

They are the same generation rite?

I mean what goes around comes around

[Mobius_1 @ Jan 4th 2008 4:32AM]

They are the same generation right?

I mean what goes around comes around

[Yubastard @ Feb 5th 2008 9:07PM]

lol!

[Brennan @ Jan 4th 2008 1:37AM]

dang..........here is Nvidias answer to R680 aka HD 3870 x2, which is what i want to get for my MSI K9A2 Platinum then hopefully another for Crossfire.

[Dolemite @ Jan 4th 2008 1:55AM]

WTF? No wonder PC gaming died. Every couple of months some new card that costs $400 and needs its own power grid.

I miss the days when a "simple" ATI Rage Pro played every game available. :(

[Kax02 @ Jan 4th 2008 2:00AM]

While it's still a bit of money to drop, the 8800GT and 3870 are filling the void well enough, even the 3850 isn't that bad of a deal for the price. All of those in the high 100's or low 200 range.

I guess at this point neither camp can really say much about the other using dual gpu solutions on a single card.

[Mike @ Jan 4th 2008 2:26AM]

@dolemite

I agree, I am so sick of this industry being driven by douchebags who sit in their basements, blow all their money on computer shit, and then jerk off when they get 200 FPS. Mind you, on the other hand, if it weren't for idiots (yes, you are an idiot if you spend $700 on a video card) buying these over-priced things then the mid-range, you know, the range that sensible people buy in, would not exist. I would just like to see more 8800 GT range cards hit the market. It has exceptional performance for the buck.

"Hey Johnny, I just hit 220 FPS and my card is at like 1.8V."
"Oh, damn, you must have bitches all over you!"
"Yeah, pretty much. Have you seen my fleshlight?"