It turns out that many of the recent rumours about NVIDIA's upcoming G80 chip were true. This includes many things such as 1.35GHz scalable clock for 128 shader units, and a 384-bit memory controller. NVIDIA still refuses to talk about the actual number of pipelines on the chip but we have a clue that we are talking about hell of a fast card. The samples should be ready for week 43, while the actually launch takes a place in week 45, probably on the 8th of November. The names are true too. NVIDIA didn't want to take any risks, it simply took the GeForce 8800 GTX for its flagship product and re-intruduces the GTS suffix for its second fastest G80 based product. - The Inquirer

NVIDIA's G80 to power GeForce 8800 GTX and GTS

It will be the fastest card till Yule, for sure, but we will try to gather more actual data on the product as we really want to know how many pixels it can render each clock. That would actually give us a good view on how fast the G80 chip really is and what ATI is up against. But what is for sure is that NVIDIA will have two cards to throw on the market, with of course different specifications and price. The launch of the GeForce 8800 series will be held during the GeForce LAN 3 gaming event, with quite a big audience. Well as time goes by more details will be uncovered, so stay tuned.