NVidia Geforce 8800 Series (GTS/GTX)

The initial release of the Geforce 8800 will come in two types. Firstly the flagship card, the Geforce 8800GTX the bigger brother of the pair if you like. The GTX version of Nvidia’s Geforce 8800 will be clocked at the higher speed, be fitted with faster memory chips and a memory bus width 64-bits wider than the 8800GTS. The GTS version will still however be built with the same technology in mind. The same core and the same compatibility with DirectX10 and all of its new features. Of course you will be able to pick up the GTS version for a fair amount less than the Geforce 8800GTX.Nvidia has changed something major inside the Geforce for the release of the 8800 series. Meet the stream processor. The Stream Processor is a combination of pixel shaders and vertex shaders combined into one. These stream processors are capable of handling data that would normally be sent to either of these processors. In turn this makes the system a whole lot more efficient.