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ZOTAC gives NVIDIA's GeForce 9800 GTX+ 1GB of GDDR3 memory

by Parm Mann on 28 October 2008, 16:04

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ZOTAC has today launched a GeForce 9800 GTX+ armed with 1GB of GDDR3 memory.

The card, pictured below, features a reference clock speed of 738MHz and its doubled-up amount of memory is clocked at an effective 1,900MHz - 300MHz slower than NVIDIA's 512MB reference design.

ZOTAC states that "the added graphics memory will be most beneficial to gamers that play at higher-resolutions in high-quality modes", and though that might be the case, the obvious concern is that the added memory will result in a price tag close to the far superior GeForce GTX 260.

With ZOTAC's 512MB GeForce 9800 GTX+ priced at around £144, we can expect the 1GB edition to arrive at an additional premium.

Official press release: ZOTAC announces GeForce 9800 GTX+ 1GB

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Posted by MSIC - Tue 28 Oct 2008 16:35
This smacks of desperation from nvidia's perspective.
I'd have thought that releasing a cut-down GTX260 (call it a GTX 240) would be more sensible.
(I accept that Zotac are not able to do this, but nvidia seem awfully quiet when they should be blasting the market).

Also… aren't they due to release some new GPU's any time now?
Posted by kalniel - Tue 28 Oct 2008 16:37
The 55nm versions of the 260/280 are rumoured to be on the way.. but it's rumour - nVidia are being *really* tight lipped about it.

Still, I can dig a 1gb version of the 9800GTX+ as long as it doesn't cost any more than a 512mb 4850.
Posted by Webby - Tue 28 Oct 2008 18:10
kalniel
The 55nm versions of the 260/280 are rumoured to be on the way.. but it's rumour - nVidia are being *really* tight lipped about it.

Still, I can dig a 1gb version of the 9800GTX+ as long as it doesn't cost any more than a 512mb 4850.

Since the 512MB 9800GTX+ costs more than a 512MB 4850 I can't see the 1GB version being cheaper, In fact I can't even see it being cheaper than a 1GB 4850 (~£130).
Posted by Lanky123 - Tue 28 Oct 2008 18:19
MSIC
Also… aren't they due to release some new GPU's any time now?

Die shrinks galore but no real architecture improvements for a while apparently.

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/10409/nvidia_gt300_gpu_to_see_light_of_day_in_q4_2009/

Quite what they think AMD will be doing in that time I don't know…:O_o1:
Posted by mediaboy - Tue 28 Oct 2008 23:07
Are NVidia simply giving up the graphics card market or is this simply PR to make AMD relax so that the top-secret non-existant NVidia GT3xx cards can be released and storm the markets?

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