The 8800 GTX (in prototype above) and GTS are the first models to be pulled off the company’s G80 processing core and describing them as anything other than jaw dropping would pretty much be an understatement.

Being 11 inches in length the GTX is a monster but it backs up this bulk with a 575MHz core, 768MB of 900MHz GDDR3 memory, a 384bit memory bus capable of a whopping 86GBps of memory bandwidth, 128 shaders at 1.35GHz and an incredible 38.4bn pixels per second theoretical fill rate.

As for the GTS edition we’ll see slightly toned down specs with a 500MHz core, 640MB of GDDR3 memory, a 320bit memory bus creating 64GBps of memory bandwidth and 96 shaders speeding along at 1.2GHz. Physcially, the card will also be smaller at a less intimidating nine inches.