It seems that NVIDIA is preparing a GeForce 9500 GT to replace their older 8500 GT. When you look at the leaked specs, we could suffice with one word .. the GeForce 8600 core, as tTe G96 core has 32 shader processors, but the core operates at 650MHz, shaders at 1625MHz, which should make up for it a bit. Quite a jump for the 8500 Gt though.
There will be two versions. One with GDDR2 memory at 900MHz and one with GDDR3 at 1600MHz. Both have 128-bit memory interfaces. A review posted at Chinese site zol.com.cn and reveals performance which is just slightly better than GeForce 8600GT, which isn't all that surprising since the product specs are really similar.
Just like the rest of the series 9 products, this product isn't all about performance, but PCIe 2.0, lower power consumption and an updated PureVideo HD.
