NVIDIA's newest mid-range
processor, codenamed D9M, will
make its official debut as the
GeForce 9600 GT.

Corporate guidance from NVIDIA
lists the initial GeForce 9600
GT shipments come stock with a
650 MHz core clock and a 1625
MHz unified shader clock.
Unlike the G84 core found on
GeForce 8600 GT, D9M will
feature a 25
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NVIDIA's newest mid-range
processor, codenamed D9M, will
make its official debut as the
GeForce 9600 GT.

Corporate guidance from NVIDIA
lists the initial GeForce 9600
GT shipments come stock with a
650 MHz core clock and a 1625
MHz unified shader clock.
Unlike the G84 core found on
GeForce 8600 GT, D9M will
feature a 256-bit memory bus
interface. Coupled with a 900
MHz memory clock, NVIDIA
calculates the memory
bandwidth at 57.6 GB/s.

The texture fill rate is
estimated at 20.8 billion
pixels per second. The company
would not indicate how many
shaders or stream processors
reside on the D9M core.

Late last year, NVIDIA
confirmed the D9 family will
use TSMC's 65nm process node.
The company introduced its
first 65nm processor shrink in
November 2007: the G92.

Other details of the D9M
family have already surfaced.
ChileHardware published slides
yesterday claiming the GeForce
9600 requires a 400W power
supply that requires 26A on
the 12V rail. Unlike previous
mid-range GeForce cards, the
D9M will require a 6-pin
supplementary power
connector.

NVIDIA publicly confirmed
other details of D9M: DirectX
10.1 support, Shader Model
4.0, OpenGL 2.1 and PCIe 2.0
support just to name a few.

Further documentation from
NVIDIA claims the 9600 GT will
also support the Quantum
Effects physics processing
engine.

Like all NVIDIA processors,
the GeForce 9600 is also HDCP
compatible, though final
support still depends on
vendor implementation.

NVIDIA declined to comment on
expected price of GeForce
9600. A representative for
NVIDIA would comment that the
performance increase between
GeForce 9600 and GeForce 8600
is 'almost double.' (less)

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