The commercial name of the upcoming G92 might be the GeForce 8950 and not the GeForce 9800 as we reported before. Different people were getting different names so at the end NVIDIA can change it until they makes the boxes for the cards. As there is still some time the name can change but GeForce 8950 sounds like a good option. Traditionally there are two versions a faster GTX and slower GTS but we are not sure about these differentiations. The important thing is that G92 will be up for sale in November. This will revamp the high-end graphics card segment and replace the GeForce 8800 series to a large extend, and put some extra competition towards the upcoming ATI refresh. - FudZilla

Upcoming G92 Might be Called GeForce 8950 Instead

So NVIDIA is doing the final preparations in order to send the first samples of GeForce 9800 or something that we know as G92 to its high-end partners and developers. Very few privileged people will get one that early and if all goes well there will be some G92 cards in some developers and customers PC already in September. NVIDIA is about to gather a lot of editors to tell them how good the new chips in October and the reviews and the real retail launch is expected in November. Of course this means that the G92 chip is taped out and that it works well, and getting ready for the first product samples.

NVIDIA's G92 next generation high-end card will support DirectX 10.1. This new itteration of the API won't bring to much but NVIDIA is there to supports the upcoming changes and updates. This will be a nice mark on the graphics card box but it won't bring anything at least not in 2007. The real DirectX 10 games have to be launched and 2008 is actually the year of DirectX 10 but this time is yet to come.We still have to educate ourselves what Shader Model 4.1 improves and how important it really is.