On exhibition ceBIT NVIDIA start today for the first time the show for wide circle computer community with its solutions witch has directX 10 support , based on chip with code name g84, GeForce 8600 GTS and GT.
Earlier, according to the information of different sources, the first video card was planned to release with frequencies of 700 MHz for core and 2 GHz for memory, the second - with frequencies 600/1400 MHz.
Yesterday associate reported that the final products will be released with the lowered GPU frequency - 675 MHz and 540 MHz, respectively. Memory will function at previous frequencies, also was communicated that In both cases will be used GDDR3 memory, the access time of which will be 1 ns and 1,4 ns, respectively.
Energy consumption for 8600 GTS, will be 71 W, in 8600 GT with the six-layer PCB will be 43 W.
As we noted in previous news the performance of those 3d accelerators in 3DMark06. System with processor core 2 Extreme x6800 and GeForce 8600 GTS collects only just more than 5700 points, witch is more than stock GeForce 7950 GT :-). The 8600 GT has only 4700 points, witch is faster than 7900 GS. For solutions with 128- bit memory access this is already alot. Here is clear that both card are coupled with powerful GPU but the memory width will limit the card performance @ high resolution 1280x1024 and above due to the limited memory bandwidth . But situation can became better if Video card producer will introduce DDr4 memory in those video card .but this for the moment will impact the price of such card on the negative side....
Before us video card MSI, which don't use reference cooling systems:.