NVIDIA G80 to be launched as GeForce 8800 GTX

Posted on Tuesday, September 19 2006 @ 16:42 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

VR Zone reports NVIDIA will release the G80 GPU as the GeForce 8800 GTX/GT.

Here's a look at the specifications:

Unified Shader Architecture
Support FP16 HDR+MSAA
Support GDDR4 memories
Close to 700M transistors (G71 - 278M / G70 - 302M)
New AA mode : VCAA
Core clock scalable up to 1.5GHz
Shader Performance : 2x Pixel / 12x Vertex over G71
8 TCPs & 128 stream processors
Much more efficient than traditional architecture
384-bit memory interface (256-bit+128-bit)
768MB memory size (512MB+256MB)

There will be two models at launch:
- GeForce 8800GTX : 7 TCPs chip, 384-bit memory interface, hybrid water/fan cooler, water cooling for overclocking. US$649
- GeForce 8800GT : 6 TCPs chip, 320-bit memory interface, fan cooler. US$449-499

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