I'm not sure if the information is
accurate and at best it would just be estimated prices,
but OCW have a bunch of information regarding the most expensive
GeForce 8950GX2 that will be sold for $599 USD. It is rumored to be a dual
GPU solution much like the 7950GX2 and will come with a total of 512MB GDDR-4
memory per GPU. The second on the list is the GeForce 8900GTX which will replace
the current high-end 8800GTX. It will ship at a retail price of $549 USD and
sees total pipelines increased to 128 which is an increase of 32 or 25% as
suggested earlier.
It will also see the inclusion of GDDR4 memory which allows nVidia to increase
the clock speed to a huge 2200MHz DDR. It also seems like the manufacturing
process is being reduced to 80nm from 90nm in the latest batch of G80 chips. As
you can see, nVidia have a whole range of new graphics cards ready and
apparently waiting to spoil AMD and ATI's R600 launch.
In R600 related news,
VR-Zone has learned
that the official marketing name for R600 will be Radeon X2900 series and we
will start using the name from now on. We can expect AMD to launch Radeon
X2900XTX and XT first while X2900XL will follow later. The recent leaked R6xx
series chart with pricing contains lots of false information is all we can say.
RV610 and RV630 are 65nm and RV610 has 64-bit memory interface. R600 is 80nm,
contains 700M transistors and has 512-bit memory interface. X2900 requires 2
supplemental power connector from the PSU, one 8-pin and one 6-pin but you are
able to plug in the 6-pin power cable into the 8-pin connector. The targeted
driver release version for X2900 series is Catalyst 8.35.1. Systems with
X2900XTX cards and tech demos will be at CeBIT but inside a private room for the
privileged only.
Finally, TheInquirer
reports that R600 architecture will utilize PCI Express x16 connection to
the fullest by delivering both video and audio content using HDMI. R600 board
will be shipped with at least one DVI-to-HDMI dongle, with DVI serving as the
bandwidth provider for video and audio. R600 chip has the bandwidth to drive not
one, but two HDMI ports at the same time with resolution at 1920x1080 (1080p or
2560x1440 (1440p).