Jetway release 2GB versions of 8800GT and 9600GT

[Bungral]

Jetway have added two new GFX cards to their line-up. An 8800GT and a 9600GT both with 2GB GDDR3 memory.

For all the info, read the full news article.

 

[Phoenix]

Where's the point? Why not try to push the frequencies a bit more, instead of going for the easy money with increasing memory? As it's clearly pointed out in the article, with the bandwith being the bottleneck, there's no gain here.

 

[Toxcity]

One word... useless.

 

[ionicle]

yay....pointless

 

[kataras]

pfff... overkill!!!, 512Mb is sweet spot for 9600 and 8800 GT's

 

[FarFarAway]

2GB on a 256bit bus

Sensible that

 

[ionicle]

2GB on a 256bit bus

Sensible that

do i detect a note of sarcasm?

 

[Kerotan]

Is there any time when these cards would actually be useful? for certain design apps where you have a lot of graphical data, but it isn't being refreshed that often? Surely there must be some market for them, otherwise why would the companies make them?

 

[firefly]

You really do well on all these news stories Bungral - much better than places like cpc.

This is marketing.

It's like 10mb or 12 mb compact cameras - does nothing for the performance, actually degrades it because the sensors are too small and there's loads more noise added because of squeezing it all in - 6mb is about the limit for a compact camera. But people buy them - they can say they have a 12mb camera.

People who know nowt will assume a 2gig graphics card is better (wow, 4x better than 512mb).

Maybe it's because ram's cheap at the mo.

Could actually degrade the card if they're using inferior quality ram.

 

[daniel-kun]

rofl... that's a typical case of milking clueless customers.

2GB, or even 1GB for that matter, are absolutely worthless with these clock- and memory-speeds.

But maybe you can create a RAM-drive on it, copy crysis to it and have better load-times :-D

muaha

 

[Bungral]

You really do well on all these news stories Bungral - much better than places like cpc.

Appreciate that mate Always good to get some feedback.

People who know nowt will assume a 2gig graphics card is better (wow, 4x better than 512mb).

That pretty much covers it.. They will hear the 8800GT is a good card and look at whats on offer.. See one has 4 x the memory of the standard card (8 x that of the 256mb version) and think it must be better.