NVIDIA launches the 9800 GX2

March 18, 2008

NVIDIA a well known graphic chip maker has had great success in 2007. This year however it has some rougher competition.ATI released Radeon HD 3850 and 3870 also the dual GPU 3870X2 that was released in the beginning of this year.The 9600GT NVIDIA was released in February,which is in the midrange to ATI’s HD 3800 series.However the company`s main market came from the Geforce 8 series until today.

NVIDIA’s 9800 GX2 is a dual GPU card.However differnet from the ATI’s 3870 X2, the 9800 GX2 is designed on two printed circuit boards (PCBs) with a one cooling system between both of the cores.The card isis 10.5 inches long and is dual-slot.

9800GX2

The card can now carry video and audio over a single HDMI cable seen on back of the card.

	GPU	No. of stream processors	Core clock speed MHz	Shader clock speed MhZ	Memory clock speed MHz	Bus width
8800 Ultra	G80	128	612	1500	1080	384-bit
8800 GT	G92	112	600	1500	900	256-bit
8800 GTS 512	G92	128	650	1625	970	256-bit
9800GX2	G92	256	675	1690	1100	256-bit

This car should be selling around $600-$649 apposed to the ATI $450 3870 X2

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