In a bid to increase pressure on arch-rival ATI, a division of Advanced Micro Devices, Nvidia Corp. reportedly prepares a more affordable version of its GeForce 8800 graphics card. The novelty, on the other hand, will attack not only ATI Radeon offerings, but also Nvidia’s GeForce 7900-series graphics cards.
The cheaper GeForce 8800 GTS will come with 320MB of memory, half of the fully-fledged GeForce 8800 GTS, which comes with 640MB of GDDR3. Nonetheless, all the other distinctive features of the product, such as 320-bit memory bus, 500MHz clock-speed, 96 stream processors at 1200MHz , 24 texture mapping units and 20 raster operation units will remain in the place, thus, only an insignificant drop in performance should be expected.
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News source: Xbit Labs
The cheaper GeForce 8800 GTS will come with 320MB of memory, half of the fully-fledged GeForce 8800 GTS, which comes with 640MB of GDDR3. Nonetheless, all the other distinctive features of the product, such as 320-bit memory bus, 500MHz clock-speed, 96 stream processors at 1200MHz , 24 texture mapping units and 20 raster operation units will remain in the place, thus, only an insignificant drop in performance should be expected.
View: The full story News source: Xbit Labs
I now have 2 choices for a new computer (which I badly need). See how this XG station from Asus preforms (if you haven't seen it, its basically a housing for PCI-e gfx cards and connecting them to a laptop). However, it is via expresscard, so it could be bottlebnecked pretty badly. But if its ok, get that, a lappy and one of these.
If the XG station does hamper preformance of cards too much, I'll build myself a new PC lol (since atm, I have an AGP based PC)
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