NVIDIA GeForce 8900 - higher clocked G80

Posted on Saturday, Feb 10 2007 @ 02:15 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

The Inq reports NVIDIA is preparing an overclocked GeForce 8800 with a tweaked driver, which will be launched as the GeForce 8900.

Nvidia plans to introduce the new overclocked card with a driver tweak. This card is supposed to give AMD/ATI's R600 a run for its money.

We don’t know how much further Nvidia can push the G80 chip but it obviously has some secret driver that can unleash some more performance. We just don’t know how much more performance they can possibly unleash

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Re: NVIDIA GeForce 8900 - higher clocked G80
by Anonymous on Saturday, Feb 10 2007 @ 21:31 CET

It needs to be a 65nm version with GDDR4. We'll see if they can manage that or not.

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