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» NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX Performance Preview

When it was introduced, the GeForce 7800 GTX ran over two times faster than the 6800 Ultra, and the 8800 GTX was 2X faster than the 7800 GTX. So naturally you'd assume today’s GeForce 9800 GTX introduction would bring another revolutionary performance leap. Unfortunately that assumption would be wrong. Read today’s article for the full scoop!

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Click to view CodE-E's User Page CodE-E (312)  Click to view CodE-E's User Profile Talk to CodE-E in the Shout! Box Apr 02, 2008 - 10:22 pm
I hope that was an April fool's joke. That card doesn't really perform better than a 8800Ultra. :(

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Click to view deimos47's User Page deimos47 (434)  Click to view deimos47's User Profile Talk to deimos47 in the Shout! Box Apr 01, 2008 - 05:18 pm
Hey who knows... maybe a week or two nVidia yells surprise, and showers us with proper successors to 8800GTX/Ultra. Maybe even at least the the same 384bit bandwidth they introduced in 2006 *gasp*.

Maelphaedor, just to make sure we're all on page 1: 8800GTX and Ultra both have 2 power and 2 SLI connectors (back then there were lots of triple demonstrations being made).

Considering the surprise/letdown/april's fools joke, makes one wonder what their follow up will be... (*I leave it up to your imagination*)

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Click to view Maelphaedor's User Page Maelphaedor (220)  Talk to Maelphaedor in the Shout! Box Apr 01, 2008 - 01:32 pm
So the 9800GTX is really just an 8800GTS-512 with an extra sli connector for tri-sli and a bit of tuning on the various clocks.

Oh yeah, that really make me want to "upgrade"...

Further proof that all of the g92 based cards should have been named using the 8900 series numbers, it'd have eliminated a lot of confusion AND set a more realistic expectation about their performance. Someone should get fired over all this...

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Click to view kerzklan's User Page kerzklan (94)  Talk to kerzklan in the Shout! Box Apr 01, 2008 - 04:45 pm
I agree

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Click to view Anuban's User Page Anuban (205)  Talk to Anuban in the Shout! Box Apr 01, 2008 - 01:32 pm
I just wish I could afford at least Two Ultra GPUs ... they still seem to be the best when it comes to raw performance. 3-way SLI with Ultras is really the only way to go. I'll take that over Quad SLI with 9800GX2s.

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Click to view WallShadows's User Page WallShadows (2361)  My XFire username is: Wallshadows Click to view WallShadows's User Profile Talk to WallShadows in the Shout! Box Apr 01, 2008 - 12:57 pm
This happens all the time though. The same thing happened with AMD and Intel; one sat with its thumb up their ass and never really progressed the tech while the other one slowly caught up and eventually got better.

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