Posted by DuMonde [Monday, 07 January 2008 - 10:50]
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We have word from DailyTech that NVIDIA's newest mid-range processor, codenamed D9M, will make
its official debut as the GeForce 9600 GT. GeForce 9600 GT shipments come stock with a 650 MHz core clock and a
1625 MHz unified shader clock. Unlike the G84 core found on GeForce 8600 GT, D9M
will feature a 256-bit memory bus interface. According to Nvidia, the texture fill rate is estimated at 20.8 billion pixels per second.
The company would not indicate how many shaders or stream processors
reside on the D9M core.
Word is:
NVIDIA publicly confirmed other details of D9M: DirectX 10.1 support, Shader
Model 4.0, OpenGL 2.1 and PCIe 2.0 support just to name a few. Further
documentation from NVIDIA claims the 9600 GT will also support the Quantum
Effects physics processing engine. NVIDIA declined to comment on expected price
of GeForce 9600. A representative for NVIDIA would comment that the performance
increase between GeForce 9600 and GeForce 8600 is "almost double."
