New 8800GTS

[jskagg]

There are a lot of rumors regarding a new 8800GTS. Some say it was already out but this was disproved as it used the older core and was just overclocked. Nvidia's site shows an interesting statement about a 8800GTS 512mb though. What do you guys think?

"5 HD DVD / Blu-ray Video Playback on NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB and 8800 GT is classified as Excellent. HD DVD / Blu-ray Video Playback on NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra, GeForce 8800 GTX and GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB/640MB are classified as Good."

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[jskagg]

I now actually think they meant to put 8600gts, so never mind

 

[imported_Shaq]

Update from Scott: Ok, I whiffed on this one and gave Cyril the wrong info. The revised 8800 GTS 640MB cards are, in fact, based on the G80 GPU, and they simply have an additional SP cluster enabled internally, giving them 112 SPs and a little more texturing capacity. Because they're based on the G80, these cards do not have the VP2 decoding engine, doubled texture addressing capability, or power consumption improvements found in the G92 and the GeForce 8800 GT. Apologies for the error.