THE 88GT GETS THE SNIP?

[marsey99]

http://pics.computerbase.de/2/2/3/8/4/1_m.png

96? 128? wtf?

source (http://www.computerbase.de/news/hardware/grafikkarten/nvidia/2008/juli/geforce_8800_gt_128-bit-interface_umlauf/)

[PeterStoba]

Don't get it?

[Lynx]

If this is true then there could be a lot of sueing going on.

[Lynx]

'So the GeForce 8800 GT, the Point of View comes only with 96 instead of 112 shader units that. Von den Texture Mapping Units wurden somit ein weiteres Cluster (acht TMUs) deaktiviert, weswegen 48 TMUs auf der speziellen GeForce 8800 GT aktiv sind. Of the texture mapping units were thus another cluster (eight TMUs) are deactivated, so 48 TMUs on the special GeForce 8800 GT are active. Den größten Einschnitt musste das Speicherinterface verkraften, dessen Durchsatz gleich halbiert wurde. The biggest cut the memory interface had to cope, whose throughput was equal halves. Anstatt 256 Bit ist dieses nur noch 128 Bit breit, was die Speicherbandbreite bei gleichem Takt halbiert. Instead of 256 bits is only 128-bit wide, was the memory bandwidth at the same time halved. Von den ROPs sind ebenfalls nur noch acht Einheiten übrig geblieben. Of the ROPs are also only eight units remained.

Somit entspricht diese spezielle GeForce 8800 GT mehr einer GeForce 9600 GSO als einer wirklichen GeForce 8800 GT, wobei selbst die langsamere GeForce 9600 GSO auf dem Papier noch schneller ist. Thus, this special GeForce 8800 GT more of a GeForce 9600 GSO as a real GeForce 8800 GT, although even the slower GeForce 9600 GSO on paper even faster. Diese kann nämlich auf ein 192 Bit breites Speicherinterface zurück greifen. This can on a 192 bit wide memory interface are back. Anscheinend kann man solch eine falsche GeForce 8800 GT zur Zeit in einigen wenigen Online-Shops erwerben. Apparently you can such a false GeForce 8800 GT is currently in a few online stores. Der Web-Shop bloo technologies gibt immerhin die tatsächlichen technischen Spezifikationen an, macht jedoch keine weiteren Angaben dazu, dass es sich um keine wirkliche GeForce 8800 GT handelt. The Web store bloo technologies gives the actual technical specifications, but makes no further information about this that it is no real GeForce 8800 GT.

Weder Nvidia noch Point of View haben offiziell solch einen 3D-Beschleuniger im Angebot. Neither Nvidia still Point of View have officially such a 3D accelerator on offer. Wie das Produkt nun zu Stande gekommen ist, ist noch unklar. As the product now come to a position is still unclear. Wir können jedoch nur davon abraten, solch eine GeForce 8800 GT zu kaufen, da die Performance der Grafikkarte deutlich unter dem „Original“ liegt. We can only advise against such a GeForce 8800 GT to buy because the performance of the graphics card, well below the "original". '

[marsey99]

tbh i think the wrong cards got a 88gt bios and been sold as such, these are the specs of the 88gs/98gso.

but saying that its not unheard of for them to do this so the newwer cards which boast the same spec can demand the same price while the older, lowwer spec'd cards have their prices cut.

either way if i paid for an 88gt today and got given that p.o.s. i think i might be a tad upset.


nice 1 lynx for the translation :)

edit
jon, just a fyi^^ dont want any1 running off to the trading standards if the info wrong on the site n all ;)

[Lynx]

The translation is slightly clutterd but it makes sense.

[wonderlust]

It has a faster clock than my 8800gt, Did you also notice that it isn't PCI-E v2 either!

Edit:-
I wonder if that is the 9800GT and GPU-Z isn't correctly identifying it?

[marsey99]

nah, its been updated, it seems point of veiw sell 2 types of 88gt, and this is 1 of them but it should of been sold as what it is and not a "normal" 88gt.

pov are swapping the guys card for a real 88gt.

wtf are they doing selling a card with those specs as a "88gt"?

gpuz would still get the main specs right even if it didnt know what to call the card.

[Audigex]

That's me not buying from POV then, unless they come up with a nice explaination sharpish.

[wonderlust]

Point of View are still listing the card on their Website:-

http://www.pointofview-online.com/default2.asp?content_id=317