NVidia has launched its new high-end card, the GeForce 9800 GTX.
The first tests carried out on the products showed that it only meets the lower bounds of performance that could have been hoped for.
Indeed, the 9800 GTX reflects the basic architecture of the 8800 GTS and merely uses a slightly higher frequency without changing the width of the memory bus or additional memory.
But NVidia is dominant ahead of AMD/ATI and does not really need to innovate to stay well ahead.
Good news for us, as long as these cards have a 128 KB EEPROM, it should be possible to make them work on our mac in the same way we modified the ROM of the 8800 GT.
The price of these cards without real innovation remains affordable. It takes around 300 to acquire one of them.
[translation by jeremy]
