NVIDIA seems very unhappy with Intel, not only showed us upgrading CPU is useless and even hinted Intel’s upcoming graphic solution Larrabee will be a vaporware:
“Larabee is a PowerPoint slide,I haven’t met a product on my PowerPoint slide that I don’t like. You know, they’re floating Larrabee out there just to put a shadow over us, cast a cloud over us. They’ve already slipped it two years from the time they talked about. They would love to slip it another four years and leave a cloud over me.” (NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, CNET interview)
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GeForce 8600GTS/GT have been launched for more than a year, but till now NVIDIA did not push any new product to replace it. All NVIDIA doing is keep replacing product in the high end segment: 8800GT, 8800GTS 512MB, 8800GS, 9600GT, 9800GX2 and 9800GTX. All these cards are 140USD above, and What NVIDIA going to do is going a new GeForce 9 product to replace the 8600GT/8600GTS. That’s our today’s review card: GeForce 9500GT.
Before we post this review, other site have already make some news out of the card: (all in Chinese)
PConline | ZOL | IT168
Because of some obvious reasons, we can not post any pics of GeForce 9500GT(except the core shot and cooler shot).
We must point out, PConline in their 9500GT review totally copied HD video playback part of our G98-8400GS review word by word, (of course they copy our Chinese versions so you probably can not read it) which totally mis-info their readers, because HD playback of 9500GT is not the same with G98-8400GS. now please click over to read our whole review.
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In a previous post some day ago we have reported “the high utilization bar of MPEG2 decoding still shows us this GeForce 8200 is not a 100% decoding solution. We hope it is only a ES issue, they can fix the problem when it finally hits the market.”
And this time we managed to run the same HD video test on GeForce 8300, (or you can call it MCP78U). GeForce 8300 is a upgrade version of GeForce 8200, have a higher Shader clock(up to 1500MHz), and better GeForce Boost performance.
The mobo we ran is another ES, so the final number may differ from retail version. We find out the GeForce 8300 have some improvements of HD video playback, read the pic for details.
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The old time table said we can get our Hybrid SLI driver in Apr. 15, but…
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Natalia claims in XS that he/she can enable multiple monitor support in Quad SLI mode by simply add one more GFX card in the rig.
The full story is here, if you have already own a 98GX2 Quad SLI setup, you can try this method out.
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When idling, 9500GT core clock drop to 200MHz instantly (Rivatuner reads it wrong)
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Rev.A1 MCP7A. A early stage product only for engineering purpose, which means you won’t see it in retail market.
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Update: According to sources, 9900GX2 do not exist for now. We will update infomation ASAP.
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When GeForce 8800GS got launched, it is an unpopular product. NV’s Dev team tried hard to keep its performance when shrinking it from a 8800GT, but because the lack of propaganda (yes i mean the leak slide, screen shot and spy pic), mainstream market can not accept this product in a flash.
Today, The card’s performance and price are similar to 9600GT’s. (Related: G80 VS G92, med to high end GFX cards round-up). So NV is going to change the name of GeForce 8800GS to 9600GSO, in order to Classify the card into the GeForce 9 series. From it’s current price and the new name we can sure the card will market target will be a little lower than 9600GT.
Also, G92 will be reflashed with the 55nm processing in July. We can expect some new GeForce 9 cards will be launched with the new 55nm G92, which can lower the core temperature and rise the core clock.
In NVIDIA’s name scheme, GTX means “GeForce Technology eXtreme”, performs better than a GT card. April 1st, NVIDIA rolls our their 9800GTX, a 9 series “GeForce Technology eXtreme”. Is it really a extreme card which can it feed gamers rising graphic demand? or only a April Fool’s Joke?
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Update in April 8: NV dev notice us they are currently working with Cyberlink to optimize CPU utilization when decoding protected MPEG2. The upgraded driver for 8200 will be released in Mid April.
NVIDIA claims GeForce 8200 is the only 100% hardware decoding solution for h.264, VC-1, MPEG2
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One years ago, the most powerful NVIDIA GFX card you can buy is 8800GTX, 8800 GTS 640MB and 8800GTS 320MB. And six month ago, 8800Ultra stands in the top of the hill, but the price is so scary to those people without a deep pocket.
And today, 8800 Ultra have been End of Life cycle, and 8800 GTX/GTS is too old to buy. That’s because some new products available in the market, eg. G9x cards. Anyway, as a first gen of G80 architecture product, GeForce 8800 did a good job in late 2006 to 2007 and now they are fading away. but it is still interesting to round them up with today’s G9x product. Do you still think 8800 Ultra/GTX/GTS can stand in the front of the line?
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The cooler now have refractions.
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