Review: Bjorn3D
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The past year was something NVIDIA had always wished for -- stay on the top and keep the performance crown. Not that they never did in the past, but this seems to be the trend. That includes both desktop and mobile markets ranging from high to low-end SKUs. As always, the first batch of high-end G80 cards were expensive and unavailable to a lot of people. Since performance wasn't the sole deciding factor, video chip giant had to make a smart move and introduce a subtle form of 8800 GTX. Based on cheaper 65nm process, this G92 code-named SKU became a product for the masses while still keeping most of G80 characteristics. Shrinking the die and selling it cheaper isn't only NVIDIA's strategy. If you remember well, AMD did the same thing a while back with their Radeon HD 3850/3870 which in fact brought high performing cards to almost everyone. Ok, enough of my gum flapping, let's get down to business.
Feb 8, 2008, 04:57 PM
