8800 GTS G92 reviewed
FORGET PICTURES AND SPY SHOTS, Nvidiots now have the full low-down on the tweaked up 8800 GTS thanks to an anonymous Taiwanese board vendor and some Satan Clara-baiting journos.
The new 8800 GTS, which - to avoid confusion - we are dubbing v2, is based on the G92 core and comes with a 256-bit memory bus, unlike the original GTS which had a 320-bit bus.
Thanks to the ramped up core and memory speeds, the new G92 8800 GTS does outperform its bretheren and the competition too, according to the first benchmarks, sticking it to the 8800 GT released earlier this month (which itself was a 1st gen GTS killer). In game, it manages to beat out the new ATI 3870 too.
Perhaps the most interesting thing about this card is the positioning given its apparent performance. It's slated to cost about $75 more than the GT, but given the GT's scarcity it's already being marked up to that level.
With the GTS face a retailer-driven price hike too, or will the GT end up as the poor relation this Chrimbo? ยต
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GTS G92 review
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This is the third revision of the 8800GTS: it was previously upgraded from 96 to 112 unified shaders under the same name.
Most years, they give us some non sensical incremental product that cost a bundle, and the review sites drool, and people decide what is "best". It is becoming a boring cycle of death by a thousand cuts

At least the 8800 series a year ago was something interesting, but this year, all this stuff is a non starter, just like the silly Ultra was. Who cares. I'll stick to my 8800 GTS SLI for another year
This card is the way to go... GTX and Ultra are passe.. unless nvidia does a v2 for them as well...
It's interesting that they are starting with the GT and and then moving up to the GTS, and then to GTX probably. 

Since it's a different/more powerful core, what they should have done it is call them 8900 GT and GTS. Unless they have something different planned for 8900's...
There is plenty left over to add to the 8900GTX or whatever the heck nVidia decides to name it. DX10.1, GDDR4 (which nVidia has yet to use on it's graphic cards), and dual-GPU architecture (reminescent of the 7950GX2). 

Other things that come to mind that I would love to see nVidia do is to allow for SLI to run regardless of the motherboard's chipset. 

This would be done by simpily compiling an extra communications chip onto each card that would allow for full duplex communication between the cards through both the SLI bridge and PCI-E bus. 

Just something to think about as I don't see nVidia doing this anytime soon. Although, ATI/AMD did discuss such a solution a few months ago...

For now, I'm playing the waiting game to see if it's worth trading up my two eVGA 8800GT SSCs for two v2 8800GTSs....hmmm, is that Santa I hear laughing? :)
This is what you can do when you dominate the market, cough up incremental "updates" until there's real competition.

Expect to see this same pattern from Intel for the next year or two, however long it takes DAAMIT to get their act together again.
I'll stick to my current "v1" 320MB 8800GTS, thanks very much.

What is all the hype about? This card is just an OCed GTX on 65nm process. Nothing new in the core really. That's why the performance isn't very different either.

My GTS does 675 core and 2050 mem. Why buy this thing?
Why is Nvidia coming out with so many variations of their cards, when they can't even come close to meeting the demand needs for their current 8800gt cards?

Or are all these manufacturers doing this on purpose to drive up prices for their own profits?
Nvidia is secretly planning to call all future cards 'the 8800'. They are trying to help us gamers kick the habit of blowing lots of money on new graphics cards by making us wait indefinitely for the 9 series. Thanks Nvidia. We know you care!
These cards are just stopgaps to the main event. The real graphics war starts when the multicores arrive. The first to market with a card that can run Crysis at highest resolutions with full eyecandy will win. It's the definitive benchmark at the moment by which people will judge the true winner.