Several Far-East sites have hosted a few specifications of Nvidia's upcoming G92 and G98 GPUs. These specs, which are backing up the rumors (with capital 'Rumor') that Nvidia will have one new mid-range chip and a new lower-end chip released in November, and not a new high-end card say that the G92 will have a 256-bit memory interface, will work at 740 MHz (core) and will have 64 Stream Processors. The G92 would have 512MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 1800MHz and a TDP between the 7900GS and the 7900GTX (quite a large gap).

The card's price would be from $249 to $299 and it would score around 9700 points in 3DMark06 on a system powered by an Intel QX6700 (4 cores at 2.66 GHz).

As for the G98, it would have only 32 Stream processors (like the G84), a 256-bit memory interface, a core clock of 800 MHz, a TDP a little higher than the 8600GTS and a price tag hovering between $169 and $199, making it whether a replacement for the 8600GTS or the card to bring the price of the 8600GTS down close to the price of the Radeon HD 2600XT. This one would score about 7400 in 3DMark06 on the same, CPU-only configuration.

First of all, we would discard the scores as they seem quite high and we'd reiterate that Nvidia has not given up on its policy of releasing a new high-end solution once every six months, making the end of the year (most likely November) a candidate for the release of something that would beat the GeForce 8800 Ultra. As for the G92 and G98 depicted above, one looks more real than the other. Which one, we'll find that out when Santa Clara starts speaking again.