Nvidia GeForce 9800GTX, 9800GT and 9600GT availability and specs

Current reports from the web are claiming that we will in fact see a similar move from Nvidia that we already saw with ATI and it's HD3800 series.
That is saying they will rebrand the 8800GTS as the 9800GTX and the 8800GT as the 9800GT. What is unknown is if they will beef up the clocks or memory speed and size in the stock versions of the cards, compared to the 8800 series. This stems from the expected hardware capabilities of the 9800GX2, that doesn't allow them to place the G100 as the 9800GTX even if they could deliver it in time for the supposed launch date for these cards.

Conveniently, from a marketing viewpoint, they also place some extra motivation for unaware buyers, since they now have also something "new" from Nvidia, that competes more favorably with AMD/ATI. They have recently launched the HD3800 series of cards, which are, performance-wise, no more than softly tweaked HD2900s with DX10.1 and PCIe 2.0; the G92 chip doesn't even pack the DX10.1 capabilities though.

Expected availability is February or March for the 9800GTX and March or April for the 9800GT. The 9600GT will come in the previously disclosed date of February 14th and will fit between the 8600GTS and 8800GT in performance and price.
The 9800GX2 is expected to arrive by the same time the 9800GTX does.

9800GTX Known Specs:
- 65nm process technology at TSMC.
- Over one billion transistors.
- Second Generation Unified Shader Architecture.
- Double precsion support (FP64).
- GPGPU native.
- Over one TeraFLOPS of shader processing power.
- MADD+ADD configuration for the shader untis (2+1 FLOPS=3 FLOPS per ALU)
- Fully Scalar design.
- 512-bit memory interface.
- 1024MB GDDR4 graphics memory.
- DirectX 10.1 support.
- OpenGL 3.0 Support.
- eDRAM die for "FREE 4xAA".
- built in Audio Chip.
- built in tesselation unit (in the graphics core"
- Improved AA and AF quality levels