The GeForce 8 series will be expanded significantly during 2007 and just like AMD/ATI, NVIDIA has a big roadmap to work with. OC Workbench has once again been able to come across information about the graphics circuits we will see during 2007 and this time it’s NVIDIA’s assortment. The GeForce 8 series, which is based on the G80 architecture, will be expanded and you can count on at least four new series of cards by the looks of it; GeForce 89xx, GeForce 86xx, GeForce 83xx and GeForce 81xx. We’re very eager to see how NVIDIA’s new cards performs and especially the budget models, but we can’t help having a special interest in the GeForce 89xx series, which will be the primary weapon against AMD/ATI R600 and the flagship Radeon X2800XTX.
According to the table of specifications that has now appeared, the GeForce 89xx series will get some more power under the hood as both GPU and memory frequencies will be raised considerably. The manufacturing process has been shrunk to 80nm and NVIDIA will use GDDR4 memory for the first time. It will also launch a new dual-GPU card in the form of GeForce 8950GX, but these seems to be limited to 96 shader processors per GPU, just like today’s G80 circuits.
Below is the list of the 13 different GeForce 8 models NVIDIA is expected to launch in 2007. Interesting reading with some specifications and estimated prices.
