NVIDIA advised its partners to start getting rid of the GeForce 7950 GX2 and GeForce 7900 GTX cards from its inventory. It wants to prepare its loyal and disloyal birds for the new big thing, the G80. This card should be the performance king and has to take the crown from the GeForce 7950 GX2 card. ATI still doesn't have a efficient way to fight the GeForce 7950 GX2 and NVIDIA is on the cusp of introducing the G80 one. We also hear that NVIDIA will also gather the journalists at its Californian headquarters to teach them about the geeky part of the G80 based graphics accelerator as well. This should take place in the middle of next month, so we are looking at a Novemberish launch. - The Inquirer

NVIDIA G80 chip is getting close, release on target

We still only know a few details about G80 chip, the only thing that we are quite sure of is that it is a 90 nanometre chip and we can also hundred per cent confirm it is not a 65 nanometre chip either. But any further than this we really can't really confirm that much, as that would be all be rumors. But as we are getting closer to next month, we are really looking forward to be able to get some more details on the newlu upcoming NVIDIA core, namely the G80 and the graphics accelerator based upon it. So we are approaching some exciting times with NVIDIA, which will be followed sooner, or later by the upcoming R600 core from ATI to counter.