Graphic Cards 8800GTS 512MB will replace 8800GTS 640MB

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Just came across this article :
Nvidia delays GeForce 8800GTS
Nvidia has postponed its upcoming GeForce 8800GTS GPU from the original launch date of November 19 to December 11, according to sources at graphics card makers.
The new GeForce 8800GTS 512MB cards will replace the previous generation GeForce 8800GTS 640MB cards with a 65nm process GPU, supporting PCI Express 2.0, HDMI and PureVideo Gen2. The GPU will have 128 streaming processors, 970MHz GDDR3 memory frequency, 650MHz core frequency and a maximum TDP of 140W, according to the sources.
Since the G92 graphics chip, on which the GeForce 8800GTS is based, has shown good performance after overclocking in the recently launch 8800GT series cards, several graphics card makers is planning to launch overclocked versions of the 8800GTS to boost demand.
GeForce 8800GTS 512MB cards are expected to be priced around US$299-349.
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So the new 8800GTS will have :
65 nm instead of 90 nm
650 MHz Core Clock instead of 500 MHz
128 Stream Processors instead of 96
1625 MHz Shader Clock instead of 1200 MHz
1940 MHz Mem Clock instead of 1600 MHz
512 MB (256 bit) (or 1024MB according to wikipedia) instead of 640MB (320 bit)
Which gives:
Increased Shader Processing Power to 607 Gigaflops instead of 345 Gigaflops
But bandwidth reduced to 62 GB/s instead of 64 GB/s (by a meagre amount)
So guyz, what do you think about the price point? What impact will it make?
And why did they release the 8800GT first which gave better performance than 8800GTS resulting into downslide of 8800GTS's sales and then replace the older G80 8800GTS with G92 8800GTS?
 
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