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Nvidia readies Geforce 9
NVIDIA IS PLANNING to make lots of hay this Christmas, rolling out revisions to its mid-range GeForce 8 series and raking in the cash on the technology it has spent the last few years developing.
But one thing is noticeably absent from the firm's Christmas lineup - any signs of GeForce 9.
Earlier on this year, Nvidia's senior management were telling press in behind-the-scenes briefings that the plan was to stick to the GeForce 7 and 8 launch schedule - a new high-end part for Christmas, and mainstream spin-outs in Q1 and 2 the following year.
This hasn't happened for GeForce 9. Why? Well, because it hasn't had to. The various re-spins of GeForce 8 are plenty powerful enough to keep Nvidia at cruising speed through the holiday season, without pulling out the big guns - after all, the competition this year has been barely worth looking at so the green team has had the market to itself.
Well, now Digitimes reckons that GeForce 9 is on track for a February 2008 release date. It seems feasible, but there is nobody at Nvidia who will confirm this either way, not least because the company is notoriously wishy-washy when it comes to rumours.
As for gamers - there's no doubting that they'd love to see a GeForce 9 this year, if only to get Crysis running at a decent speed. But when there's not much competition, there's no pressure to get parts out of the door - so perhaps ATI better get its act together for all your sakes, lest it's 2009 before we see the next major upgrade to the GeForce series. µ
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I want drivers that support SLI with multiple GPU's.
Oh my goodness! We are already seeing another gpu coming out? Where is the mid-range gaming cards that play Direct X 10 at a good rate?
There has been nothing under the radar for a whole new generation in around 2 months time. No rumours from Tawian, no tape out or re-spin news etc.

I strongly suspsect what with NVIDIA's twatish number scheme it is a dual 8800GT GX2. That would explain the "twice the power of a G80" NVIDIA has been secretly whittering on about.

A true 9 series won't be out until summer. By then G80 is 18 months old, the length of a typical product life cycle. By then I can play Crysis TWIMTBP!

The way things are going I wouldn't be surprised to see a 8600 MK2 96SP to compete with a 3850 (just to confuse things more).
Well you can have Nvidia, After dealing with there driver issues and also the picture on the screen not being as good as ATI's I will stay with ATI. Fastest is not always the best or way to go.
ATI (um AMD) provides little (nothing) to compete with. What year was it that I bought a 9700? That time period was the last time (an only time) that Nvidia had to compete with anyone but themselves.

I guess it makes sense for AMD to own ATI. Now they can be noncompetitors in both cpu and gpu. It has to be serious mismanagement when the top teir company is so far out ahead that they can sit on technology for months or maybe even years...
8900 series? 

That would be the 8800GT and 8800GTS mkII. They follow green team's strategy from the 7800-7900 conversion. But nobody has any loyalty to naming schemes these days, do they?
The tradiational sequences followed by nVidia in the past were mainly there to compete with ATI. R6x0 was not only late, but didn't show its teeth until RV670.

There have been rumors that the new 8800GT and rev2 8800GTS were to be called 8900GT and 8900GTS, but for whatever reason, nVidia choose against calling them that.
Nvidia risk losing the GPGPU crowd if they don't get a move on with DX10.1 parts, since double precision is so essential for most numerical work.

There are rumours around that they're releasing a GPGPU only card (no video out) that supports double precision soonish. We shall see.
I wish sometimes that I had gotten into consoles instead of computer games. Buy the hardware once, then every purchase thereafter is just games. The thousands I have put into upgrading a computer over the last several years coulda bought a lot of games...
8900 was never suggested. If anything, thing of the 8800GT as the 8900GT and the 8800GTS rev 3 as the 8900GTS. Nvidia's plans actually make sense like that, and so really it's just the cycle of architecture -> die shrink -> architecture being delayed due to lack of competition. 

I am expecting D9E much later the February since I expect February to be the Dual G92 (8800GX2 I assume) as that's what AMD is doing. I expect the R700/D9E will come mid-to-late 2008.
omg, im waiting since february for the second gen dx10 cards.I had almost made up my mind to just get the 65nm 8800gts and now this.
All i want is a card that will play arma,crysis and some others maxed out @1680x1050.(i`m willing to compromise on crysis)
GET YOUR DAMN FINGERS OUT NVIDIA, AMD/ATI
please? :P
Does that mean there is going to be no 8900 cards?? or may be that this "9 series" might just be 8900 slated for a feb launch...