[geeks] GeForce 8800GT for Mac Pro Gen 1 on sale

[nate at portents.com]

> (although the price of those is about to drop with the 9600 and 9800
> coming to market).

The 9800GTX is nothing special.

8800GTS 320MB/640MB and 8800GTX/Ultra 768MB both use the NVIDIA "G80" 90nm
chip, with 96 and 128 pipelines active respectively, and 320-bit and
384-bit memory interfaces respectively (and clocked a little bit
differently).

8800GT 256MB/512MB is an NVIDIA "G92" 65nm chip with 112 pipelines and a
256-bit memory interface.  Same type of pipelines as the "G80", and with a
new dedicated part of the chip for HD video decoding offload.

9600GT 256MB/512MB is an NVIDIA "G94" 65nm chip with 64 pipelines and a
256-bit memory interface, same type of pipelines, also with HD video
decoding offload.

8800GTS 512MB and 9800GTX 512MB are also NVIDIA "G92" 65nm chip, with the
only difference that the 9800GTX has a bit of a faster clock, and they
added another SLI connector so you can connect three together for triple
SLI (not that SLI scales that well in most applications anyway).

So, the 9800GTX is perhaps one of the biggest "yawn" products NVIDIA has
ever introduced.  After it was introduced I went out and bought an 8800GTS
512MB for $220 after rebate.

- Nate