The lineup for Q3 for high end cards will be the 9900GTX and 9900GTS which will be replacing the 9800GX2 and 9800GTX. This means that a single 9900GTX should be about 30% faster the the 9800GX2. For those of you who are going to be able to step-up to the 9900's in early July, I would suggest that you do so. For me this just sucks because my step-up ends late may =(. It also looks as though the 9800GT will be coming out in Q3 also because there are too many mainstream cards that came out in Q2.
The GT200 cards are supposedly going to be out sometime in July according to TweakTown. The 9900GTX will have slightly lower specs than originally thought. Instead of a 512 bit memory, it will have a 448 bit memory interface. There is also rumors that this is the one billion transistor core that everyone has been waiting for.
AMD is planning a Hexa core like Intel. It will have 6 cores at 45nm. The codename for these cores is "Istanbul." AMD is starting to go Intel's direction by adding two dies on the same core and not going "native" like AMD used with there Phenom to try to get more people interested.
Sources say that the RV770Xt will be released this May! The card is going to be GDDR5 memory and 55nm. There are going to be three versions, Rv770XT, RV770PRO GDDR5, and RV770PRO GDDR3. They are also claiming that the HD4870X2 will have 2GB of on board memory. This is all good considering the the estimated price of the RV770XT will be $350. This wil be the card that wins it back for ATI.
The 9800GX2 is supposedly going to get a new core G92-451. This will be a step up from the original G92-450 core and it might be 55nm! This is supposed to be an easy process nowadays with interchangeable cores, and Nvidia might use the 55nm to cut power and price.
