GeForce 9800GT is a 780i-like product |
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It is NVIDIA’s magic: adding a chip, 680i change to 780i. Adding a connector,8800GT turn into 9800GT.
GeForce 9800 GX2 spy pic leaked |
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GeForce 9800GX2, it is time to show up! The card is a bit different than what we used to know: the optical digital audio output is gone.
GeForce 9800 GX2 detail Specifications |
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The GeForce 9800 GX2 have been dismantled a long time ago, but NVIDIA still holds the card’s detailed specifications tight. But finally we now know their little secret and decide to post it here.
The core clock is similar to 8800GT’s, but as you can see, memory clock raised up to 1000MHz. Also, source mantioned the card supports OpenGL 2.1.(8800GT only supports OpenGL 2.0).
3DMark Vantage RC0 screenshots released |
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These “screenshots” are captured by digital camera. It seems the RC0 version of 3Dmark is not stable, because it can’t even finish the benchmark and reporting errors.
source said his testbed can not finish Graphic Test 2, and all the graphic test/CPU test/feature test can not be ran one right after another or it will crash. The application still have lots to improve.
Just for your information, 3Dmark Vantage is a Vista/DirectX10-only benchmark program and scheduled to be released at GDC on Wednesday the 20th of February 2008. Source said there both release note and spec did not mention DirectX10.1.
The “about” screen. The GUI is different from previous version.
[Driver Update] ATI Catalyst 8.2 |
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Performance improvements with this release of Catalyst™ includes Company of Heroes DX10 frame rates increasing as much as 20% across all of the ATI Radeon™ HD 2×00 series of products and on all ATI Radeon™ HD 3×00 series of products. These performance improvements are even larger (up to 30%) for CrossFire™ configurations.
[Driver Update]a bag of ForceWare drivers up for grab! |
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Recently, loads of ForceWare drivers are leaked to the world wide web. The leak have multiple beta drivers and even a WHQL which certified at Febuary 2008. all of them are released by ElectronicPunk and Station Drivers. All these Drivers did not have release notes.
171.17 WHQL XP 32bit (Time stamp: 01/05/2008)
173.80 beta vista 32bit（14/01/08）
171.23 beta XP 32bit （26/01/08）
169.39 WHQL Vista 32bit （01/02/08)
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