NVIDIA's mainstream attack - 8600, 8500, 8400, 8300 - 8500GT, 8400GS, 8300GS
Author: Luka Rakamaric
Date: 17 Apr 2007

With 16 Shaders, 210 million transistors and reference design card's cores ticking at 450MHz, memory at 800MHz and SP's at 900MHz, 8500GT is a bang for the buck product ($79-$99). This card has 256MB of DDR2 memory and according to some stories we heard, it's gonna have two versions, HDCP-compliant and without HDCP. We feel it could be a good entry-level card for those not interested in OEM designs which will soon be using 8400GS/8300GS chips (450/400MHz). Other featerues include 8 ROPs, 8 bilinear texture filtering ops/clk and PureVideo HD support. 8400 GS and 8300GS have 210 million transistors, the same 450/900/800MHz thing, both cards can do 8 bilinear texture filtering ops/clk and have 64-bit memory interface and the same amount of memory - 128 or 256MB, depending on the vendor. There are two main differences - 8400GS has 16SPs (8300 has 8) and 8400GS supports PureVideo HD, while 8300GS supports PureVideo.