Whoopty-doo, how about something new nvidia?

Isn't it about time nvidia got with the times and released a card that supports the current DX version, DX10.1? Instead of doing a lot of effort and setting up production lines for their old technology.

come on people, they are working to make the design smaller, smaller could possibly mean a lot less power needed to run the cards at top load, which in turn will mean less heat, smaller heatsinks, less noisy gpus anyone?

nvidia has lots of rebranding now adays.... dont they have enough architectures to sell?

I wonder how much of an oc'ing advantage these will have over 65nm G92s..?

Why is everyone so excited for the next $500+ card? I kinda like seeing what we have now actually get some long-term use and driver refinement. It's cheaper gaming.

It's not like NV and ATI are overcharging obscenely for these refreshes. For example, with 8800GT, you get a cooler, smaller, more power-efficient card that performs equivalently to or better than what was $150-250 more expensive a year ago. Same with 9800GTX. Seems like decent evolution to me.

And hey, these GPUs are coming up on a billion transistors. A year doesn't seem long when they are that complex. We aren't dealing with 15 million transistor GeForce 2 cards anymore. Just think: it takes Intel and AMD, what, 5 years to come up with a new CPU core? Apparently R600 and G80 were in development for about that long, too.

55nm isn't going to make a super-faster-amazing GPU unless one of these companies builds a new super single-GPU card again (see G80/R600). G92 and RV670 were apparently designed for dual-GPU cards and you can see how that affects what they can do with only one on a card.

the G92 core was sabotage by Nvidia lowering frequencies and disabling abilities like hybrid carp etc . (just like intel did with the Q9300 disabling half of his cache ) and now is selling it like new crap .
I'm sure intel will bring a q9350 next quarter with 12 mb just like Nvidia did.

PS : AMD needs to learn from this if Intel or Nvidia had a bug don't care sell it anyway like is the best thing you ever seen , and after fix it , rename it is a totally new product . :))

I know we're all sick and tired of seeing the G80 and G92 rehashed every month or so, but lets face it, AMD/ATI hasn't really given nVidia any reason to supply a next gen GPU. I think what's going to happen is that ATI will release their next big thing and all the reviews and comparisons will be done and we'll be smitten with it...for a week. That's when nVidia will start shipping the GT200 and it will most likely crush anything else on the market.

Now I hope I'm wrong. It would be nice to see ATI come out with a strong card and, like many have said, force even more advancements in GPU tech. But I highly doubt it's takes nVidia's entire team to do these revamps. I got a feeling they've had people working on GT200 for awhile and it's only a short ways from being shipped to board makers. They're probably just sitting on it, and hopefully, working out the kinks so they have a nice efficient behemoth to let loose when the time comes.

It is pathetic. Pathetic because anyone who is building a new system today is better off with an 8800gt or a 3870 rather than a 9xxx series card. Relabelling cards and slightly changing the clock speeds with one extra feature does not give them the right to change it from an 8 to a 9. Grrrr.... anywho the 8800gt should be an 8900gt, and this supposed 9800gt should be a 8950gt. Fixed.

Boring......

let's hope that rv770 will push innovation ahead.