It compresses the data flow, allowing for more info thruput using a narrower bus width 256bit. Its an improvement on all the 9 series, but not much is known according to anantech : bus. The differences between G9x and G8x are small, but even so details were light. Their compression technology has evolved to provide higher effective bandwidth between the GPU and framebuffer. We would love to provide more details on this and the other changes, but NVIDIA is still being a bit tight lipped."
Plus theres the pure video full HD support, which offloads almost all work from the cpu to the gpu
Well their pure video technology is apparently higher than that of 8 series like Jaydeejohn said with the HD things. They also seem to consume less power and yield at least the same or better results
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It compresses the data flow, allowing for more info thruput using a narrower bus width 256bit. Its an improvement on all the 9 series, but not much is known according to anantech : bus. The differences between G9x and G8x are small, but even so details were light. Their compression technology has evolved to provide higher effective bandwidth between the GPU and framebuffer. We would love to provide more details on this and the other changes, but NVIDIA is still being a bit tight lipped."
Plus theres the pure video full HD support, which offloads almost all work from the cpu to the gpu
The 8800GT has this compression technology as well. The 8800GT is basically a 9 series card.
