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Early NVIDIA 9800 series benchmarks

Category: PC, Posted: 03/03/2008 at 11:20PM CST by Sean Pincombe, Staff Writer

NVIDIA NVIDIA is set to release it's new GeForce 9 series of video cards in a few months, and already information is starting to filter out about the lineup's power.

VR-Zone has gotten it's hands on some preliminary 3DMark06 scores for the upcoming 9800 GX2 and 9800 GTX cards. The rig used in the benchmarking was an Intel Quad Core Q6700 2.66GHz processor on an unknown P965 board with Forceware 173.67 drivers and Catalyst 8.451 drivers.

The results can be seen below. Remember, these are pre-release figures and NVIDIA isstill tweaking the clock speeds and drivers, so things can change before you can get your hands on the actual card and give it a go yourself.

For pre-release figures they are promising. Here's hoping with further tweakage the cards can go above and beyond even NVIDIA's expectations.

At the moment the 9800 GX2 is set for a March 18th launch while the 9800 GTX is set to launch around the end of March.

Benchmark results

[via VR-Zone]

Posted by intooblivion on 03/03/2008 at 11:27PM

Anyone want to buy one for me?

Posted by The Hylden on 03/04/2008 at 12:56AM

I'm curious about this, so maybe you guys and gals can answer me. For starters, the "9 series" has officially already started to be released, if you count the 9600 cards, which are available now. This leads to my question. How, or why, is it that a 9600 card being released right now brand new is around $250, or so, and the 8800's are still anywhere from half a grand, to near a grand? What is nVidia going by to make one series more than double in price from its brethren in the same class, and even from a new one just released in a supposed higher series? Because, when I bought this 8600 GTS card, superclocked mind, for under $200 bucks, I thought I was getting a good deal. I'd say from performance, it can't get much better than this, so I still think I did, but I am confused when seeing the 8800's still so high and even the 9 series starting out so low... Yeah, just curious, if anyone has the time...

Posted by The Hylden on 03/04/2008 at 01:00AM

Also, why did the 9 series jump straight to 9600 cards, when the 8 series started off at the 8400 models? lol, if no-one knows this last one, that's fine.

Posted by Alex6969 on 03/04/2008 at 01:17AM

The 9600 wasn't designed to replace the 8800 series. It is beefed up version of the 8600, but is not as powerful as the 8800 series. The first number, "9", denotes the series/chipset they use. The second number, "8" in this case, is what model the card is, the higher this number, the more powerful the card is. And finally, the last two digits, "00", are the sub-releases, most commonly "50". nVidia doesn't do this anymore though, last time I saw it was on the "7" series cards. If that makes any sense.

Posted by enben980 on 03/04/2008 at 03:14AM

Hylden:
In case you didn't know Nvidia and ATI have issued price drops just last week. They finally hit the e-tailers and the new pricing is:
8800GT 512 - 229.99 (249.99 OC)
9600GT 512 - 189.99 (209.99 OC)
Radeon 3850 512 - 169.99+
Radeon 3870 512 - 199.99+
The competition is getting good, and with mid range performers available for under $200 it can only get better.

Posted by The Hylden on 03/04/2008 at 04:06AM

Hm, ok, thanks to you both. I think I get most of it... And yeah, if the competition keeps bringing down the prices for those things, that would be awesome. Maybe then I could actually upgrade more often than ever few years:p