Nvidia G80 innards exposed
@ 2006/11/02THIS ARTICLE REVEALS all of the important information regarding GeForce 8800 series, which is set to be released to the world on November 8th, 2006 in San Jose. We have learned that during traditional Editor's Day in San Francisco nVidia kept its rules, so "no porn surfing" and "no leaks to the Inquirer" banners were shown. But, we have no hard feelings about that. It is up to the companies to either respect millions of our readers, including employees of Nvidia or... not.
As for being CPU bound... The benchmark should be set at a C2D running 3.6ghz. If it remains more than marginally CPU bound I'll be amazed.
For having about 100 million more transistors than a Kentsfield, the 140 watts doesn't sound to bad to me?