NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Benchmarked

Expreview has published some 3D benchmarks of the NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce 9600 GT card.The site published a photo of a system with a GeForce 9600 GT 512MB graphics card. The card features a 650MHz core, 1625MHz shaders and 1800MHz memory.


The below results were found on system having QX9650 (333MHz x 9) CPU, Asus Maximus Formula ROG X38 DDR3 motherboard and Geil 1GBX2 DDR2 800MHz 4-4-4-10-1T memory.They used Windows Vista Ultimate and NVIDIA ForceWare 169.25WHQL drivers.



The performance of this GeForce 9600 GT is quite impressive to replace the existing GeForce 8600 GT cards but can't beat the the high-end cards.Inspite of that the result is pretty attractive and would give Radeon HD 3850/3670 a run for its money.

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NVIDIA 8800 GS : A Strong Contender Against ATI's 3850 Series

Expreview has got their hands on a production 8800 GS card which by any means looks to be a stripped down G80-series GPU although it's branded as the G92-150 and it's manufactured at 65nm. It has a 192-bit memory interface, 12 ROPs and 96 Stream processors compared to a 256-bit memory interface 16 ROPs and 112 Stream processors for the 8800 GT.

The 384MB card on test is clocked at 575MHz for the core, 1,438MHz for the Shaders and 1,700MHz for the memory. This is somewhat slower than the 8800 GT that it was put up against which was clocked at stock speeds. However, the 768MB versions of these cards should be clocked faster than the 8800 GT, but features the same amount of Stream processors and ROPs.



On average the 8800 GS 384MB was 20-30 percent slower than the 8800 GT 512MB card it was put up against, but if it'll be priced right, it looks as if AMD's 3850 series just got a fierce contender, especially as Expreview is quoting prices of US$165 for the 384MB version and US$204 for the 768MB version.

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PowerColor Unveils Radeon HD 3850 AGP Version

PowerColor has unveiled the new Radeon HD 3850 graphics card with an AGP interface.

The new AGP card, which you can view below, features a two-slot cooling system, stock clocks (668 and 1660 MHz for the core and memory) and 512 MB of GDDR3 memory. The AGP-ed Radeon HD 3850 has already popped up in store and can be found at just under 200 euros.



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Mid - Range Nvidia G94 Cards In February

Digitimes reports that Nvidia will launch the mid-range part for its GeForce 9600 GPU series, codenamed D9P or G94, in February 2008, according to sources with graphics cards makers.

The G94, the first mid-range GPU to feature a 256bit memory interface, is expected to pose a strong challenge to AMD's Radeon HD 3850 (RV670PRO) of the same class, the sources commented.

The sources revealed that while Nvidia's latest entry-level G98 (D8M) GPU, made at the 65nm process, has started shipping since early December, the G94 will make its debut on February 14. The G94 will also be made on a 65nm process at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the sources added.

The sources previously had said Nvidia would roll out the D9P in June 2008.

The G94, with its official price temporarily set at US$169, features 64 stream processors and supports PureVideo Gen 2, the sources said.

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First HD3850 With GDDR4 Memory

The chaps over at expreview.com got hold of a rather interesting HD3850 card.

It's made by Unika, and it's unique in that it's the first HD3850 card with GDDR4 memory we've seen so far. It uses a slightly smaller PCB, designed and built by Triplex and a non reference Al-Cu cooler.

The core clock is bumped up to 700MHz, while the Hynix 0.8ns memory runs at 2200MHz, which is around 33 percent higher than the reference GDDR3 speed of 1660MHz.

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Nvidia's G96 Is The Next

Nvidia's biggest problem now is that they don't have a card that can run against the Radeon 3850. This Radeon is significantly faster than any 8600 GTS, as even overclocked cards can't compete and it cost about €150 for the 256MB version.

Nvidia lost this highly profitable market segment to ATI and it won't have a new chip to challenge ATI until March 2008. This is the time when G96 should be born. The G92 based 8800 GT is simply in another league and with prices between €220 and €250 it fights and wins over the HD 3870.

We don’t know many details as yet, just that the chip is coming and we hope that it is finally the time to move away from a 128-bit memory interface and go for the faster but more expensive 256-bit memory interface. The time will tell.

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ATI Radeon HD 3800 For Mobile

FUDZilla heard mobile versions of ATI's new Radeon HD 3850 and 3870 are expected soon:

Just as Nvidia is planning a mobile G92 version of the Geforce 8800 GT, branded as the 8800M GTX, ATI will introduce its RV670 mobile chip. ATI has a big advantage, as it dissipates less than 80W, at least for the desktop part, but with some optimization and a more modest clock, we might be getting a great mobile GPU at a great price/performance ratio.

Traditionally AMD has to wait for OEMs to change their production cycle and as soon as this happens (in other words, when one of the big OEMs or ODMs (Originl Design Manufacturers)) releases a new machine powered with mobile RV670, AMD will introduce this part.

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AMD Radeon HD 3850 and 3870 Released

Today AMD finally unveiled its new 55nm Radeon HD 3800 series. There are two different variants: the Radeon HD 3850 with 256MB GDDR3 memory and the Radeon HD 3870 with 512MB GDDR4 memory. These cards are priced at $179 and $219, respectively.

AMD also officially introduced ATI CrossFireX, a multi-GPU technology with support for two, three and four graphics cards. At launch, the ATI Radeon HD 3800 series will support dual-GPU CrossFire with tri and quad-GPU support scheduled for January 2008.

In January/February 2008 we can expect the Radeon HD 3870 X2 for about $499 and the firm is also working on a Radeon HD 3830 but few details are known about that card.

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Radeon HD3850/3870 To be Launched Tomorrow

Radeon 3870, or RV670XT, and Radeon 3850 aka RV670PRO, will be launched tomorrow. We can tell you that Revival and Gladiator cards will be out and that you will see the cards with two DVI's, DVI and native HDMI, and later on you will see these cards with DVI + DisplayPort. It's all possible.

The Radeon HD3850 512MB card will score some 20 – 30 percent lower than a Geforce 8800GT 512MB and as we said before it will end up slower.

These two cards are two first DirectX 10.1 cards with support for Shader 4.1 and PCIe 2.0. It is a transistor optimized version of the R600 chip with UVD video processor included and it's manufactured at 55 nanometre.

The odd number of the beast, 666 million transistors, is something that you won’t forget that easily and the board has 320 stream processors, just as much as the original R600. Just as we reported months ago RV670XT aka Radeon 3870 math processing rate ends up at 497+ Gigaflops while 3850 card process 428 Gigaflops.

Tomorrow you will see a lot of reviews on the net and we will have a few, we're working on them as we speak.

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AMD To Further Reduce 3800 Series Pricing

According to a story on Digitimes, AMD is going to further reduce the pricing of the upcoming Radeon HD 3850 and 3870 cards and apparently we're looking at pricing between US$179-239, which translates to €122.50-163.50, but the cards won't be this cheap in Europe though as we know, since the exchange rate is never applied in this way.

Nonetheless, we're looking at some very cheap cards here and it seems like AMD is almost underselling itself and we're curious where the 2900 GT and 2900 Pro belongs in this lineup, as both cards will end up being more expensive than the 38x0 cards an most like not be competitive in terms of performance.

Time will tell how much these cards will actually cost, but it looks like we're seeing another price war, this time between AMD and Nvidia, rather than between AMD and Intel.

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ATI Radeon HD3850 Listed For 156.10EUR

TC Magazine found prices of the upcoming AMD/ATI Radeon HD3850 and HD3870 cards at some of the online stores.

According to one website Sapphire Radeon HD 3850 256MB can be preordered for 156.10EUR whereas the 512MB version costs 171.20EUR.




As for the higher-end Radeon HD 3870, it is now at e-shop24.com for € 219,26. The competitive prices are now confirmed, all we need now are the perfomance numbers.

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Leaked Radeon HD 3800 Series Slides And Performance Benchmarks

MadBoxPC got their hands on some slides from AMD about the upcoming Radeon HD 3850 and 3870 graphics cards.



Some Radeon HD 3850 and 3870 benchmark results were unveiled today at VR Zone. These graphs allegedly come from AMD but the results don't really look that good unless these cards will retail for a lot less money than the GeForce 8800 GT.Check out some of the results below:



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