XFX intros 9500GT and 9800GT graphic cards

MUMBAI, INDIA: XFX announced two new graphic cards for gamers and multimedia users. The XFX GeForce 9500GT: The Multi-Media Multi-Tasker and XFX GeForce 9800GT.

The 9500GT delivers an improved 3D experience with Microsoft Windows Media Center that allows users to offload tasks from the CPU, which increases productivity and enables users to share, edit and manage photos and videos better than ever before.

The 9500GT takes video playback to a new level, with advanced PureVideo HD technology that delivers jaw-dropping Blu-ray movie picture quality with reduced CPU utilization and low-power consumption.

Offering a 3X performance increase over comparable 8 Series GPU and PCI Express 2.0 compatible cards, the 9500GT delivers the most gaming horsepower available at this price point, and since these cards are compatible with PCI Express and the new PCI Express 2.0 bus architecture, the 9500GT ensures that users will be able to play all games the way they were meant to be played.

The XFX GeForce 9800 GT is loaded with industry-leading features such as Nvidia CUDA technology, together with new CUDA runtime for Windows Vista, enhances non-gaming productivity by enabling programmers to offload intensive processing tasks from their CPUs to their GPUs, putting the power of up to 112 processor cores to work.

Now, users can multi-task, enabling them to transcode video, or even run Folding@home in the background while surfing the web or conducting other computing tasks.

Engineered for the PCI Express 2.0 bus architecture featured in most XFX nForce Series motherboards, the GeForce 9800GT offers the highest data transfer speeds for bandwidth-hungry games and 3D applications. It features 112 processor cores that are each individually clocked at 1.5GHz and a 256-bit frame buffer interface that runs at 900MHz.

Both the graphics card will be available through Rashi Peripherals and its network of 53 branches across India at an estimated street price of Rs 6,500 for 9500GT and Rs 12,500 for 9800GT.