Rumour has it that the upcoming G92 is a mainstream chip, not the high-end refresh that the internet has been wibbling about. Well, we can tell you that this rumour is nothing else but a bit of good old fear, uncertainty and doubt, since either G92 is a high-end refresh or the company decided that a replacement for GeForce 8800 GTS will be significantly faster than a GeForce 8800 Ultra, leaving its high-end offering in shambles. This baby sports some serious shading power, but more important is the fact that the memory installed on board is now GDDR4, so a fairly great improvement over the usual GDDR3 memory. And, In fact a solid 768MB of GDDR4 memory, to be more precise. - The Inquirer

G92 is a High-End Chip, Sports Full 384-bit Controller

The amount of memory discards rumours of 256-bit bus, since it is obvious that NVIDIA will keep 384-bit memory controller for the high-end series of products. We would welcome this memory controller in mainstream arena, though. The bandwidth has now jumped over the 105GB/s barrier, and it remains to be seen what will be the final clock of the memory but our estimate is between 2.0-2.4GHz effective, but final clocks are far, far from being decided. The company needs to get the revised chip first, in order to have DisplayPort working nice and cleanly. DisplayPort is required for this company to get the Dell XPS contract.

The company has already had some revisions of the board sent to their favourite game developers and other partners, and we can now tell you that the board is almost identical to old GeForce 8800 GTX and Ultra ones. We would like to see 1.5GB of memory on consumer boards as well. Qimonda's high capacity GDDR3 sounds very tasty for NVIDIA's plans, but for now the reference boards sport Samsung GDDR4 chips. We hope the situation about this upcoming silicon gem is now as clear as mud.