News: Nvidia's new series 9

Nvidia has announced plans for the new 9 series of graphics cards, codenamed the G92. Which will have the big guns like the 9800 GTX and 9800 GTS. While the mid-range performers, the G98's will house the 9600 GT.

The main USP for the 9 series is the support for DX 10.1,OpenGl 3.0 and PCI Express 2.0. Here are some rumours floating around in the web space:

• it'll offer around 1 TERRAFLOP of computational performance
  
• the clock speed is going to be somewhere between the 800 and 850 MHZ mark
  
• sticking with the nomenclature of the current generation, there'll be a 9800 GTS and GTX
  
• it'll be the first PCI Express 2.0 card
  
• looks like it'll also support a new DirectX 10.1 standard, and Open GL 3.0
  
• it'll have a DisplayPort connector (the new digital display interface standard)
  
• be built with a 65 nm fabrication process
  
• double precision support (floating-point 64)
  
• an GTX2 version might come very soon after launch (2 GPUS on one card, like a 7950 GX2)
  
• could be almost as twice as fast as a 8800 Ultra (as crazy as that may sound)
  
• might sport a gigabyte of GDDR4 memory