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Graphzilla prepping early G200 launch
THE GREEN TEAM is moving up its launch of the GeForce 9900 series to July in a bid to counter DAAMIT's launch of RV770, according to our old friend Internet Reports.
The bods at VR-Zone offer no hard info for their claims beyond the usual sources, but it doesn't seem like an improbable move. If AMD actually gets its act together and RV770 - the Radeon 4800 series - actually turns out to be a performance crown-winner, Nvidia won't want to let that stand for very long.
The 9900GT was previously speculated to be the first card out of the bag, given the stunning sales and benchmark performance of the 8800GT, but it may now be that all chips are being stuck into GTX and GTS cards to make sure that Nvidia stays top dog in the face of new competition.
G200, on which the 9900 series is based, is a brand new architecture rather than the G92-based respin which has powered recent Nvidia cards. Expect a good gig of memory and more than a billion transistors. And plenty of spin, both in the foundry and on the PR trail. µ
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And it runs Crysis a full 4 fps faster than the previous (mo)N(ey)-VITE-ia with 36xAA?!
I WANT THAT CARD!!

Petra
"Dirk Meyer stated that the company will roll out a significant number of products in May "
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/37025/135/
more techo stuff here
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/37093/135/
I don't pay much attention to performance claims these days... I have a mixture of ATI and Nvidia graphics cards in various machines, but if I was going to buy a new one tomorrow it would be ATI... In 6 months time it would still be ATI.

Why? Because Nvidia has such a terrible driver support. I have a Vista Media Centre PC that can't detect it has a TV connected for a start! Given that Vista has been about for over a year now, is it too much to expect them to have drivers that work?
It's the GT200. No wonder everyone is confused.
The Gpu clubs are a bit slow, they should try the Intel thing and patent their numbers, maybe even the letters. Then we might not get a rehash of recycled card descriptions which just da totally da confuses da crap out of me.
LOL, nVidia is obviously not even ready to launch G200 cards yet, this is their bs tactics. If people think it will come July like the RV770 people will hold out and say yeah I won't get the RV770 just yet... just buys them time.
I remember the 4xxx series nVidia cards too... what's ATi's new cards called?
GT200 = 1 bil transistors, 200+shader, 512 bit GDDR3/GDDR5

G200 = ???

G92b = 55nm shrink G92
You comment Vista is Silicon intense, More=better, with gluttonous appitite for its' Wafer & Quality Stuff to Boot. 

Think 2 billion this summer Imagine with 3 way(home fanantic)Hybrid G200 Big 5 billion Tranistors, Maybe add extra billion latter on? Memory? Come on, Pour It On THICK. Big Numbers.C Drive 50+ gb, oh, make it 76.ME.DIVA ME.DIVAS: ME.DIVAS 
FINAL Slogan:Madonna&APPLES.
T.Drashek
Nvidia's naming conventions are killing me. 

9800GTX = Current Architecture
9900GT = New Architecture?

What?
the G200 isn't based on anything new, it is just yet another re-jig on the G92 most probably at 55nm and running a little faster but don't expect miracles!
It seems to me that Matrox Graphics released a few cards based on their G200 in about 1999. It had 16MB and gave the TNT and Rage128 a serious run for their money.

Is it really that hard to come up with unique numbering schemes for different generations of chips, doubt it.
I thought it was a 55nm respin of G92 aka G92b?
I had a G200 YEARS ago....
Great, brand new architecture. I guess there goes driver support out the window again. Like when the 8800's came out and the drivers for the 7900's disappeared. I doent think I will take the risk and go with ATI .
OMG, the Matrox Graphics processing chip well pwns the other Radeon 4400 influx mechanism. I think we should use the G200 for all our inset programming
Oh! Oh! Has anyone mentioned that the 9800 isn't a new card either? Remember ATi used that name too!? haha!! You guys crack me up!


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