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Is the 8900 series Nvidia for real? As of now, G80 is still the fastest graphics chip on the market. It has 128 unified shaders and can process a lot of pixels. But those shaders aren't necessarily proficient at rendering complex graphics, as science calculations can easily run on a graphics card disguised as a small shader program. Now, Geforce 8900 GTX is expected to have 25 percent more Shader power, and dual Geforce 8950 GX2 configurations should provide a lot more Shader and Pixel power.
Some Chinese sources claim that the upcoming GeForce 8950GX2 card will sell for $599 USD. It is rumored to be the successor of the previous 7950GX2 and will come with a total of 512MB GDDR-4 memory per GPU. As part of the new 8900 series, NVIDIA also plan to introduce the GeForce 8900GTX which will replace the current high end 8800GTX. It will ship at an approx. retail price of $549 USD and it will also see the new addition of the GDDR4 RAM which allows NVIDIA to raise the clock speeds to a smoking 2200MHz frequencies!!! The power boost may also come from the new 80nm manufacturing process.
Some Chinese sources claim that the upcoming GeForce 8950GX2 card will sell for $599 USD. It is rumored to be the successor of the previous 7950GX2 and will come with a total of 512MB GDDR-4 memory per GPU. As part of the new 8900 series, NVIDIA also plan to introduce the GeForce 8900GTX which will replace the current high end 8800GTX. It will ship at an approx. retail price of $549 USD and it will also see the new addition of the GDDR4 RAM which allows NVIDIA to raise the clock speeds to a smoking 2200MHz frequencies!!! The power boost may also come from the new 80nm manufacturing process.