what the heck happened to the 8800gt?

[grimreefer]

did i just imagine it? i mean, alot of new drivers have support for it, right?
whats the deal with it?!
do we have to wait for the next cebit or something to get info?

[Uberpwnage]

I don't remember seeing anything about an 8800GT. Nvidia likes to change their naming around, I thought there was going to be a 7800 Ultra but it never surfaced, maybe GT is headed for the same fate.

[grimreefer]

i could of swore that 8800gtx, 8800gt, and 8800gts were all in a driver. i hope i wasnt imagining it lol.

[RussianHAXOR]

the 8800GTS is supposed to replace GT i believe.

[Redeemed]

the 8800GTS is supposed to replace GT i believe.

I think you are right.

[superklye]

I don't remember seeing anything about an 8800GT. Nvidia likes to change their naming around, I thought there was going to be a 7800 Ultra but it never surfaced, maybe GT is headed for the same fate.
You seriously thought there was going to be an "Ultra" after NVIDIA specifically stated on their site months before the 7800GTX came out that "GTX" was the moniker replacing the "Ultra" moniker?

[Dazz]

Nope the 8800GTS is the GT model.

[Uberpwnage]

You seriously thought there was going to be an "Ultra" after NVIDIA specifically stated on their site months before the 7800GTX came out that "GTX" was the moniker replacing the "Ultra" moniker?

Yea, I wasn't as involved in these matters back in June 2005. I didn't even know there was a 7800GTX until it crept up on me when I was browsing Newegg about a month later :o . Came as quite a shock actually. So I wouldn't have heard any pre-launch announcement, I think I eventually read something before the 7800GTX 512 release, that said there would be no ultra, but I still wanted there to be one! Old 6800 Ultra user lol

[Belarnion]

Some guy from a norwegian hardware store told that at first the developers told them they would get 3 SKU's. A few weeks before release, the number was reduced to 2: GTS and GTX. Could GT be the 3rd one?

[RussianHAXOR]

No, if they release an 3rd Sku it will probably be an 8600,8400, 8100 etc....

[Red_Shift]

The first SKUs are allways from the 800 series. Maybe the 3rd one was an 8800 vanilla, but they felt it wasn't needed due to the lack of bad cores or lack of competition from ATI.

[Dazz]

More then likely lack of competition. nVidia know that they won't beat ATi on the high end once the X2800 comes out, they will be stock piling the bad cores to bring out the vinilla version to get ATi on the price front.

[yooyo]

This is part of nv4_disp.inf from 97.44

NVIDIA_G70.DEV_0090.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX"
NVIDIA_G70.DEV_0091.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX "
NVIDIA_G70.DEV_0092.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT"
NVIDIA_G70.DEV_0093.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS"
...
NVIDIA_G80.DEV_0191.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX"
Here is missing NVIDIA_G80.DEV_0192.1 !!!
NVIDIA_G80.DEV_0193.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS"

[schtuga]

http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=4472

VR-Zone has learned that NVIDIA will release cheaper GeForce 8800 cards next month to increase pressure on current ATi X1950 lineup targeting at X1950XT 256MB mainly. The new cards will based on the same 8800GTS GPU (96 unified, 24 texture processors and 20 ROPs). It has the same core and memory clock speeds but half the memory size of the current 8800GTS cards. The card will still be known as GeForce 8800GTS but comes with 320MB GDDR3 memories in 10 x 8M*32 array so the memory bus width remains unchanged at 320bit. The card length is the same as the current 8800GTS card at 9 inches and it is still a dual slot. The performance is close to the current 8800GTS 640M but it is US$100 cheaper. Does a price tag of US$299 sounds good to you?



This might interest a few people

[Bman212121]

Sounds cool, but please give it a special name like, 8800gts SE, that way we know it's the ****ty edition.

I wonder how much performance will suffer by losing half the ram? It will still have a ton of GPU power, but it won't be able to run on high settings simply because of the lack of ram.