In addition to the G92, G98 and G94 Nvidia is preparing yet another 65nm chip, the GeForce 9500 GT-bound G96. This little bundle of transistors will first come under the form of the G96-300 which will power the 128-bit GeForce 9500 GT due for release in the first half of this year.

The new low-end card will be placed beneath the GeForce 9600 G, will support DirectX 10.0, OpenGL 2.1, PCI-Express 2.0, Hybrid SLI, the third-generation VP unit and will be coupled with either GDDR2 or GDDR3 memory. Although the card's number of working Stream Processors is still a blur the frequencies of the GPU, shaders and memory are set to top 650, 1650 and 1600 or 1800 MHz respectively, the latter depending on the amount (and type) of memory used by the AIB (add-in board) partner.

The GeForce 9500 GT is also set to feature DisplayPort but the inclusion of such a connector will be left to the manufacturer. This new release should battle the upcoming Radeon HD 3650 but it looks like AMD"s card will have a head start as it is almost ready for release.