Nvidia confirms specs of 8800 and power consumption

http://www.megagames.com/news/html [...] pecs.shtml Im glad this puts rumors to rest about "you need to have a 1kw power supply to run one card" ...anyway...it says its the only directx10 compliant card before 2007, understood..however my question is..will this work with windows xp...and..ALLS I WANT TO FRIGGIN DO IS RUN OBLIVION OVER 50fps in outside environments!! and this better do it. Anyone have ideas or opinions on how you think this card will run oblivion? thanks, sorry if this is a repost in advance.

so will it work with windows xp? just in direct x 9 ofcourse?

yep.

I 8O at that.

Yeah 128 Pixel Pipelines!!! That would be one pretty gaming experience. Still the most important thing is not released. The price and that odd 768Mb memory.

I wouldn´t be surprised if they mixed up the info. I mean, they say the X1900XT got 48 Pipelines. That´s not correct. So, maybe the G80 has "only" 128 Shaders...

Yeah, can't wait for some real pw consumption numbers. I'm betting nVidia is being generous for SLI and 800W is only for the GTX (just like they did with the 7800/7900's). At least that's what I'm hoping since I just bought a GameXstream 700W and plan on going 8800 GTS SLI...

I reard there won't be an DX10 version for WinXP, but rather a DX9 update, without many (read main) DX10 features.

Could the prices of nVIDIA's DX10 cards actually rise in 2007 compared to November and December of this year similarly to how prices of DDR2 RAM rose in September compared to July and August? There could be much more demand for these cards in 2007 when Vista and DX10 games arrive.

Will it be possible to enable both AA and HDR simultaneously on a Geforce 8800 GTS in Oblivion?

8O

yes its been announced that full AA and HDR can be run at the same time on oblivion, which is why im excited. I just want to see oblivion run smooth as silk in outside environments.

WOW well its going to be a monster and lets hope now GF FX screw ups to repeat themselfs... but still wow. what i dontget is
why 320/384bit and also why 768mb/640mb memory why such strange well numbers ?

This has been posted last week by Daily Tech http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=4441

And the 8800 GTX hasn't 128 pipelines...it has 128 unified shaders.

Also the 384-bit memory interface and the 768 MB are due to:

12 x 32 bit = 384 bit
12 x 64 MB = 768 MB

So you'll get 12 64 MB modules with a 32 bit interface each conected to the memory controller of the board.

Power on this baby is about 225 W (expect second generation of high end dx10 cards to get as high as 300 W)

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The RV580 has roughly 400 Mill. Transistors. 48 Pixel and 8 Vertex Shader. Even if i add them up (not quite the best solution, but okay to keep it simple), i get 56 Shaders. They claim that the G80 has more than twice of that. I´m not sure if Nvidia simplified the Shader design - if that´s even possible. I doubt it though. If anything the Shaders got more complex since they switched to Version 4 and need Geometry Shaders and what not.
So you´re probably right.

What i don´t really get is the memory size. I somewhat doubt that they cut back from 1024 to save money. It probably has something to do with that funky bus width of 384. But i´m really curious about it. Usually sizes grow exponential 2^x.

But it´s a mood point since most of the things that could be said know would be speculation. I´m quite curious though.

From what i've been reading, the reason why they went with 384-bit instead of 512-bit was there was some sort of technical issue with the actual manufacturing process, but you can expect that to change when they go to a smaller form (like 65 nm). Also, seems that the G80 will be 80 nm

I tell you guys,

I have a power meter on my computer, and my rig, e6600, 2 gigs ddr2, 2 320+ hds, 2 dvds, floppy, x1900xtx, sound card, 4 case fans, etc, pulled around 190 watts.

With the 7900 GTO now, I am hitting around 170~175W TOTAL.

I do not understand these folks who need 700 watts!

Even the new 8800 says no more than 500 for SLI!