New GeForce 8800 GTS 512

NVIDIA’s G80 GPU has been sitting atop the 3D graphics food chain for well over a year now. It was way back in November of ’06 that the GeForce 8800 GTX and original 640MB GTS arrived – the first two graphics cards based on the G80 GPU. Sometime later, the more affordable 320MB GeForce 8800 GTS and current flagship GeForce 8800 Ultra arrived, but these two cards are based on the same GPU that powers NVIDIA’s initial 8800-series offerings.

Obviously, even though NVIDIA’s products still clearly outperform ATI’s at the high-end, it’s time for a refresh, if just to keep things exciting for consumers this holiday season. The first glimpse of what NVIDIA had in store came a little over a month ago in the form of the GeForce 8800 GT. The GeForce 8800 GT was based on a brand new GPU, internally codenamed the G92. G80 and G92 are fundamentally very similar, but NVIDIA hadn’t unleashed the full potential of the GPU due to the odd number of stream processor partitions enabled in the GT - seven.

And today, NVIDIA is launching yet another addition to the GeForce 8800 series, a new GTS card featuring 512MB of frame buffer memory and a G92 at its heart, with get this, 128 stream processors. There was an eighth stream processor partition lurking within the G92 all along...

Fabrication: 65nm
Number of Transistors: 754 Million
Core Clock (Includes dispatch, texture units and ROPs): 650MHz
Shader Clock (Stream Processors): 1.625GHz
Stream Processors: 128
Memory Clock: 970MHz (1940 DDR)
Memory Interface: 256-bit
Memory Bandwidth: 62 GB/ps
Frame Buffer Size: 512 MB
ROPs: 16
HDCP Support: Yes
HDMI Support: Yes
Connectors:
2xDual-Link DVI-I
7-Pin TV Out
RAMDACS: 400MHz
Bus Technology: PCI Express 2.0
Max Board Power: 150 Watts