My friend next to me was browsing the apple store, and I was commenting on the new iMacs when I noticed that the new 24-inch iMac comes with an 8800GS.... that has 512MB of RAM.
I thought that RAM had to be linked with the Bus width (Please correct me if I'm wrong here.), and I know the GS runs with a 192-bit memory bus, and that should end up with RAM amounts at 384MB. I SUPPOSE it could be 576MB of RAM, but it still seems odd to round down to a specific 512MB.
Typo. Either the GPU is wrong, or the ram amount (or both for that matter). BTW, what ever happened to the 768MB 8800GSs we heard about when this castrated G92 was leaked? Was it just a rumor? Or did nVidia decide it would kill a lot of sales for higher margin 9600GTs and 8800GTs (which it undoubtedly would)? C'mon Palit, if the 9600GT and 8800GT can have 1GB, why can't this poor thing get 0.75GB?
Typo. Either the GPU is wrong, or the ram amount (or both for that matter). BTW, what ever happened to the 768MB 8800GSs we heard about when this castrated G92 was leaked? Was it just a rumor? Or did nVidia decide it would kill a lot of sales for higher margin 9600GTs and 8800GTs (which it undoubtedly would)? C'mon Palit, if the 9600GT and 8800GT can have 1GB, why can't this poor thing get 0.75GB?
Exactly.
They're giving the tired old 8600GT 1Gb for chrissakes!!
Just a quick glance at the internet for GF8800 for Apple and they all say 8800GT, I guess it's a typo on apple's website.
Nope, almost right!
There is now an 8800GS option on the iMac, the 8800GT was available on the Mac Pro only (AFAIR). Quite how the 8800GS can have 512mb of RAM is a bit odd, perhaps it is sharing system memory as well? Unlikely, I know, but I can't think of any other reason why it wouldn't be 384mb...
