The rumor mill is is spinning hard at expreview today, as it seems NVIDIA will debut it's Geforce 9 series on valentine’s day, 2008. According to sources the first product of Geforce 9 series will be GeForce 9600 GT.
9600GT’s GPU is a 65nm processing chip. We already seem this fabrication process used on on G92/D8P (8800 GT / GTS 512MB) . The nex-gen mid-range product GPU should have core clocks at 500MHz with it's memory at 2000MHz. The GPU will have 64 Shader Processors (a 8800GS will be 96SP 192bit 384MB). It is a main-stream product and only have one SLI connector so it can not support 3-Way SLI.
GeForce 9600 GT uses a P545 PCB design and the memory will be 256-bit 512MB.
Judging from these early specs it's a pretty save bet to say that the product’s proformance will be lower than the 8800GT, and likely even its rival Radeon HD 3850/3870.
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