Friday, August 6th 2010

NVIDIA's New Entry-Level GF108 GPU Pictured

Barely a day after the first pictures emerged of NVIDIA's GF106 GPU that will serve as the foundation of various mainstream SKUs, its even smaller sibling, the GF108, has come to light. Available to NVIDIA partners as qualification sample, the GF108 is a small GPU in terms of package size. The die measures around 127 mm², which is about 23% bigger than that of AMD's entry-level Redwood GPU which makes various ATI Radeon HD 5500/5600 series SKUs.

On the engineering sample card it's pictured on, the GPU has a plastic supportive-brace, and is neighboured by four Hynix-made DDR3 memory chips. No SKUs have yet been named that are based on this GPU, though it is expected that a certain SKU based on this will be comparable to the GeForce GT 240 in terms of performance, and compete with AMD's ATI Radeon HD 5500/5600 series.
Sources: XtremeSystems Forums, Expreview
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33 Comments on NVIDIA's New Entry-Level GF108 GPU Pictured

#1
inferKNOX
Come on nVidia, boot ATi's prices in the FACE! or :nutkick:
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#2
KainXS
is it 128sp with 8 rops?
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#3
mdsx1950
When will the put out the GF098. :D :p (There's no such thing like)

As the the GF1xx increases the lower end models are coming out. :/
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#5
phanbuey
lol SWEET.... look at that beastly heatsink!
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#8
Solaris17
Super Dainty Moderator
LAN_deRf_HAIs that dust on the top right?
no thats thermal paste that was smudged on the rubber stopper
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#9
KainXS
or someone got too happy when they saw it;)
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#10
Solaris17
Super Dainty Moderator
KainXSor someone got too happy when they saw it;)
if its comming out silver i think they have a shot for that bro. you should go to the hospital like now
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#11
LAN_deRf_HA
Solaris17no thats thermal paste that was smudged on the rubber stopper
I meant far top right, way on the corner of the board. Kinda makes this pattern but stretched out \/\
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Solaris17
Super Dainty Moderator
lan_derf_hai meant far top right, way on the corner of the board. Kinda makes this pattern but stretched out \/\
wat?
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#13
hat
Enthusiast
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#14
MikeX
I thought that was MXM card at first. Nice looking card.
128mbit memory bus?
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#15
a_ump
definitely. no company's ever put more than that on entry level graphics. the 9600GSO was mainstream at release so that doesn't count :P.

so its gonna have 128SP's yet perform worse than or around GT 240 level's. Nice, more products from nvidia that are less efficient per sp than the G200 core.
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#16
dir_d
Is it just me or goes it look photoshopped?
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#17
LAN_deRf_HA
Mainly I was just thinking if it's dust it might tell you something about the cooler air flow and or shroud shape, but they might not have the reference cooler finalized yet.
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#18
a_ump
dir_dIs it just me or goes it look photoshopped?
i don't even get how some people can tell things are photoshopped. like open it up in paint n point out what u think looks photoshopped
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#19
RONX GT
I just hope it'll out perform the 9600 GT and perform very close to 9800 GT.
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#20
Yukikaze
What the heck is wrong with Fermi? Why are cards with more processing power on paper have the performance of cards with lesser paper stats from the G200 era? Not really very related to this chip, just a general rant...
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#21
p_o_s_pc
F@H&WCG addict
Solaris17if its comming out silver i think they have a shot for that bro. you should go to the hospital like now
i thought it was normal to be silver :eek: looks like i need to go to the hospital and get a shot :p
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#23
Valdez
claylomaxWhat coin is that?
It's 100 Hungarian Forint :D
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#24
claylomax
ValdezIt's 100 Hungarian Forint :D
Is it like a £2 coin, because I can't figure out the size of the chip then.
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#25
Valdez
claylomaxIs it like a £2 coin, because I can't figure out the size of the chip then.
The 100 Ft has a diameter of 23,4 mm.
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