Is nvidia really able to generate a new series of cards every 1 year ? or is it really a copy and paste process were they only changing the case and maybe a new fan ??
looking at the g92 core i must say it a great gpu but taking it through 3 generations of cards is a big issue .. 8800gt then 9800 series and calling it g92+ and stuff lol while over clocking was the only thing done for it then again taking it to the 200 series with the 250 gts .. is it gonna go to the 300 series ? are we paying 300 dollars for empty covers here ? couldnt they just kept the 8000 series for a while longer ? i mean the 9800gtx+ could have been easily called a 8800gtx+ am not saying that cards are bad , they rock but i dont believe the new ones are new and i dont believe they are able to make new ones every year .. they just unbox them and put them in new case . then advertise and sell for new price .
sorry to say that i am a newbie but as a buyer i dont feel i bought something new .. even that the card is 1 year old but i really feel its an 8800 gt tweaked a little bit .. and i dont believe they can make a series every year looking at the 200 series now i mean they just made it few months ago did they really invent a new technology ? are these fps games really consuming all this technology ? and why ? we could have walked to the moon by now if nvidia was nasa ... am sorry to say all that but am not rich or smart . i just like to play and i find keeping up with video cards is really a hard work metal y and materially .. i would like to link a review on guru 3d that generated this thread : http://www.guru3d.com/article/galaxy-geforce-9800-gtx-512mb-review/2
it says : So then, with the introduction of this SKU, the G92 based graphics processor was no longer based on NVIDIA's 0.65nm silicon, which was actually already a respin chip based on last years architecture from the GeForce 8800 series. NVIDIA made a transition onwards to a much smaller die (chip size), made at a 55nm fabrication process. Why move to a smaller fabrication process you might ask?
A lower die-size often equals lower core voltages, better energy efficiency and typically better clock speeds. Important to know is that the G92 is based on the same chip that the 8800 GTS 512MB has, which means that the GPU on the 9800 GTX+ also has 128 shader processors. How many transistors do the NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX GPUs have you ask? No precise data has been given yet, but it's safe to assume roughly 754 million transistors. A question we hear a lot, why is the 9800 GTX 512MB a series 9 product, and the 8800 GTS 512MB (based on the same G92 graphics core), a series 8 product? The answer: I have no idea other then the fact that a Series 9 product sounds better (marketing wise). The G92 based 8800 GTS should probably have been called 9800 GTS or GS as people in the stores right now are really confused.
comment : when i read that i felt that i didnt buy a new card .. and i kinda understand
why my new card will be out dated so fast .. because it wasnt new at first place
http://www.guru3d.com/article/galaxy-geforce-9800-gtx-512mb-review/19
The Verdict : The GeForce 9800 GTX+ is a product series that is slowly starting to age
comment : i buy a card 8 month's ago for 350 dollars so that they tell me its old ..
what are we buying here ? a fish ?
again i look at a good link here : http://www.techspot.com/review/92-asus-geforce-9800-gtx/
it says : Based on the infamous G92 architecture that we have seen used time and time again, the GeForce 9800 GTX shares very similar specifications to that of the GeForce 8800 GTS 512 graphics card. By now, the G92 has been used on numerous Nvidia graphics cards including the GeForce 8800 GS, 8800 GT, 8800 GTS 512, and the 9800 GX2. Keeping this in mind, it will be interesting to see what makes the new GeForce 9800 GX2 special.
After all, it is likely that you would end up spending well over $1000 for this kind of setup with the 9800 GTX, and the performance scaling is questionable.
no comment ..
looking at the g92 core i must say it a great gpu but taking it through 3 generations of cards is a big issue .. 8800gt then 9800 series and calling it g92+ and stuff lol while over clocking was the only thing done for it then again taking it to the 200 series with the 250 gts .. is it gonna go to the 300 series ? are we paying 300 dollars for empty covers here ? couldnt they just kept the 8000 series for a while longer ? i mean the 9800gtx+ could have been easily called a 8800gtx+ am not saying that cards are bad , they rock but i dont believe the new ones are new and i dont believe they are able to make new ones every year .. they just unbox them and put them in new case . then advertise and sell for new price .
sorry to say that i am a newbie but as a buyer i dont feel i bought something new .. even that the card is 1 year old but i really feel its an 8800 gt tweaked a little bit .. and i dont believe they can make a series every year looking at the 200 series now i mean they just made it few months ago did they really invent a new technology ? are these fps games really consuming all this technology ? and why ? we could have walked to the moon by now if nvidia was nasa ... am sorry to say all that but am not rich or smart . i just like to play and i find keeping up with video cards is really a hard work metal y and materially .. i would like to link a review on guru 3d that generated this thread : http://www.guru3d.com/article/galaxy-geforce-9800-gtx-512mb-review/2
it says : So then, with the introduction of this SKU, the G92 based graphics processor was no longer based on NVIDIA's 0.65nm silicon, which was actually already a respin chip based on last years architecture from the GeForce 8800 series. NVIDIA made a transition onwards to a much smaller die (chip size), made at a 55nm fabrication process. Why move to a smaller fabrication process you might ask?
A lower die-size often equals lower core voltages, better energy efficiency and typically better clock speeds. Important to know is that the G92 is based on the same chip that the 8800 GTS 512MB has, which means that the GPU on the 9800 GTX+ also has 128 shader processors. How many transistors do the NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX GPUs have you ask? No precise data has been given yet, but it's safe to assume roughly 754 million transistors. A question we hear a lot, why is the 9800 GTX 512MB a series 9 product, and the 8800 GTS 512MB (based on the same G92 graphics core), a series 8 product? The answer: I have no idea other then the fact that a Series 9 product sounds better (marketing wise). The G92 based 8800 GTS should probably have been called 9800 GTS or GS as people in the stores right now are really confused.
comment : when i read that i felt that i didnt buy a new card .. and i kinda understand
why my new card will be out dated so fast .. because it wasnt new at first place
http://www.guru3d.com/article/galaxy-geforce-9800-gtx-512mb-review/19
The Verdict : The GeForce 9800 GTX+ is a product series that is slowly starting to age
comment : i buy a card 8 month's ago for 350 dollars so that they tell me its old ..
what are we buying here ? a fish ?
again i look at a good link here : http://www.techspot.com/review/92-asus-geforce-9800-gtx/
it says : Based on the infamous G92 architecture that we have seen used time and time again, the GeForce 9800 GTX shares very similar specifications to that of the GeForce 8800 GTS 512 graphics card. By now, the G92 has been used on numerous Nvidia graphics cards including the GeForce 8800 GS, 8800 GT, 8800 GTS 512, and the 9800 GX2. Keeping this in mind, it will be interesting to see what makes the new GeForce 9800 GX2 special.
After all, it is likely that you would end up spending well over $1000 for this kind of setup with the 9800 GTX, and the performance scaling is questionable.
no comment ..
Lol.. yea graphics cards work like this only.. Even Intel processors do similar stuff: Marginal Difference between consecutive products, renaming n readjusting hardware, etc. this is how it works 
