Trust X-bit labs to gives us the good. For anyone who wants to know the intimate details of the G80/GeForce 8800 architecture, their article is just what the doctor ordered.

For some reason the G80 reminds me of the NV30 (GeForce FX 5800). A lot of theoretical performance that certainly delivers a punch, but lacks a certain...something. I can't help but wonder if NVIDIA's saving grace these past years has simply been ATI coming late to the party. ATI have had over a year to get to grips with a unified shader concept with the X1000-series, which was a hybrid of theories, so we can surely expect R600 (Radeon X2000?) to pack a punch. GeForce 8800 is obviously impressive in performance, but unless something is significantly holding it back, one would expect much better performance out of 128 unified Shaders clocked at 1.35 GHz. Time will tell.

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