So 9900 will be almost twice as fast as 9800? This can't be right!
One billion transistor chip & 512bit memory interface ... these things won't be cheap. I don't think high yields either.

GT 200 is not new architecture. It might have some tweaks here and there. The main difference is it has more rops and texture fillrate combined with 512bit and 448bit memory controller. Not to mention more SP on 55nm diet and maybe dx10.1.

Something like this:

28 ROP 40 or 80 TMU 160SP 448 bit memory controller

32 ROP 48 or 96 TMU 192SP 512bit memory controller

It will easily eat up 4850 or 4870 but it will cost whole lot more too. Something for the ultra needy PC game freaks that cost over $600. Maybe even a thousand who knows.

I'm surprised to hear so many people say that they want to buy new cards to see Crysis in VHQ. There surely are other games to look forward to rather than replaying that one.... $400+ to replay a game that was really a letdown once you got halfway through (which equals about 4 hours of decent gameplay).

Personally, I'd rather see Oblivion pegged at 60 Hz with Qarl's Texture Pack 3 + more. :)

And yeah, as others have said, I think 9900 is going to be the 55nm G92. The actual new stuff isn't coming until near X-mas.

The "9900xx" cards coming this Summer are highly-unlikely to have next-gen GPUs, the true second-gen Dx10.xx parts. Expect those from nVidia near the end of the year. Design work on the true next-gen started after the original 8800GTX was released and this silicon is expected to be an optimal merge of desirable features for both GPU and GPGPU applications, giving rise to a new generation of graphics card equally at home with high-speed parallel computations as with graphics. IIrc, nVidia is currently working on merging their graphics and CUDA drivers in preparation for the new family.

The Summer offerings are likely to be yet another crank on the G92 family but all on 55nm instead of 65nm, with appropriate power-savings and/or clock-rate increase and maybe with some more stream-processors. No doubt intended to neutralize any RV770 releases and will accordingly be priced aggressively. For those expecting quantum leaps of performance from a single GPU, keep your wallet in your pocket till the true next-gen is released, probably around Christmas. And if it is some time since you upgraded your GPU, just buy a 8800GT to tide you over. Can't beat the current performance/price.

I'm just gonna wait for the reviews to come out. I won't be building a new comp till next Christmas at the earliest anyways so it doesn't make much difference to me.
Whoever has the best performance at $200-$300 is going to have my business....same goes for CPU's, so AMD has 8 months to try and keep me on board (currently running an old socket 939 X2). Good luck Green guys...you'll probably need it.

I Just want to see Jen-Hsun Huang come out and say
"Crysis... Very High... Full HD"

So... theoretically, nvidia could launch the 9900GTX at a 1000$ price ponit.

Too expensive. AMD 4800 X2 FTW.

9900 series eh..?

I see 3 possibilities here:

1. false rumor
2. GT200 is actually not much different from current chips
3. nvidia has gone completely nuts with product naming

Considering situation with G92 I'd say case 3 is closest.