NVIDIA Introduces The GeForce 9800
Video cards are launching left and right these days and it’s been a confusing time for many consumers. Trying to tell people that many of the latest GeForce 8 series cards have the same core as the GeForce 9 series isn’t an easy thing to do. To complicate things even more, NVIDIA has been reducing the frame buffer size on the latest video cards. This is not only confusing to consumers, but the media as well. Today is no different, so sit back and we will try to walk you through what is going on.
The video card that is being launched today is the GeForce 9800 GTX, which has 754 million transistors that are manufactured on the 65nm process. This will be the direct replacement of the GeForce 8800 GTX, which has been the high-end work horse for NVIIDA since 2006. The GeForce 9800 GTX sounds like it isn’t too much of an upgrade over the GeForce 8800 GTX, but NVIDIA claims that this GPU is this is the most complex GPU ever created and the specifications can be seen below. The GeForce 8800 GTX has a 768MB frame buffer with a 384-bit bus and the just released GeForce 9800 GTX just a 512MB frame buffer on a 256-bit bus. On paper this doesn’t seem to be an improvement, but NVIDIA says they have optimized the G92 core so much that it doesn’t need a larger frame buffer. NVIDIA atually said that internal lab testing has showed that a larger frame buffer doesn't significantly improve performance.
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