The desktop graphic card market has a deficiency in average price solutions with 256- bit memory system bus . It is assumed that AMD will release this in autumn , the video card radeon HD 2900 Pro on base of chip r600 with the reduced to 256 bits memory system bus . This video card can appear on the market under the name Radeon HD 2900 XL.
Associate also reported that NVIDIA prepares the 256- bit version Of geForce 8600 GTS. . Associates also noted , that Nvidia will propose the wider memory system bus in average price segment with video card on base of chip G98, which will be the derived form of G92, this last is prepared for release in autumn this year.
Video cards on base of G98 chip will cost approximately $199, ensuring in this case higher operation speed in comparison with present GeForce 8600 - not only due to the wider memory system bus , but also due to the larger quantity of functional video chip blocks . The announcement periods Of g98 is not fixed, but hardly this chip will be released previous spring 2008.
As far as the G92 chip is concerned, associate assume that this 65 nm chip will work at frequencies from 800 to 850 MHz, it will support the interface displayPort, which allow to connect the video cards to the newest monitors, which are prepared for announcement in the beginning of 2008.