GeForce 8 Series Architecture
Released Models
Contents
Two GeForce 8 models were released this week: GeForce 8800 GTX and GeForce 8800 GTS, both targeted to PCI Express x16. GeForce 8800 GTX requires two auxiliary power connectors and has two SLI connectors (we are asking ourselves if this isn’t a future support for SLI mode with four video cards).
As we mentioned before, the shader engines use a different clock rate from the rest of the GPU.
We list below the main specs for these two new video cards.
| GeForce 8800 GTX | GeForce 8800 GTS | |
| Core clock | 575 MHz | 500 MHz |
| Streaming Processors (Shader Engines) | 128 | 96 |
| Streaming Processors Clock | 1.35 GHz | 1.2 GHz |
| Memory Clock | 1.8 GHz | 1.6 GHz |
| Memory Capacity | 768 MB | 640 MB |
| Memory Interface | 384-bit | 320-bit |
| MSRP | USD 599 | USD 499 |
