Thursday, May 22nd 2008
Next-gen NVIDIA GeForce Specifications Unveiled
After we already know what AMD/ATI are planning on their camp, it's NVIDIA's turn to show us what we should be prepared for. Verified by DailyTech, NVIDIA plans on refreshing its GPU line-up on June 18th with two new video cards that will feature the first CUDA-enabled graphics core, codenamed D10U. Two models are expected to be launched simultaneously, the flagship GeForce GTX 280 (D10U-30) and GeForce GTX 260 (D10U-20). The first chip will utilize 512-bit memory bus width, 240 stream processors (128 on the 9800 GTX) and support for up to 1GB memory. GTX 260 will be trimmed down version with 192 stream processors, 448-bit bus and up to 896MB graphics memory. Both cards will use the PCI-E version 2.0 interface, and will support NVIDIA's 3-way SLI technology. NVIDIA also promises that the unified shaders of both cards are to perform 50% faster than previous generation cards. Compared to the upcoming AMD Radeon 4000 series, the D10U GPU lacks of DirectX 10.1 support and is also limited to GDDR3 only memory. NVIDIA's documentation does not list an estimated street price for the new cards.
Source:
DailyTech
87 Comments on Next-gen NVIDIA GeForce Specifications Unveiled
And DX10.1 is hardly worth mentioning, how many DX10.1 titles are there again?
No, I don't think the HD4870 can beat the GTX 280 in raw performance at least, maybe price, power and other factors.
65nm - instead of 55nm - is another problem and causes more unnecessary power consumption.
And yet again, nV fails in creating a practical PCB layout. The board used for GTX280/260 is pure horror.
GT200 rocks ! :rockout:
Hi!
I have one question. If DX10.1 can be removed by a patch, does it mean that it works the other way around? Like upgrade Crysis to DX10.1? Or any other DX10 title.
That would be nice, and I presume not to hard to accomplish(technically).
GT200 is a FULL new GPU, and the GDDR3 works alright better than the GDDR5.At the end you get the same results but the GDDR3s they are more exploitable.
The differences betwheen DX10 and DX10.1 are least ! The games have just begun to use the DX10s and they are little of it !!
Anyone knows the price or has a hint?
Unlikely, but really, anything's possible but ofcourse it's way easier to cut rather than add something.DX10.1 in AC allows performance boost when AA is used. Sure.
But then again, it also causes incompatibility with nV GPUs that only support DX10.
Choose now, which would you fix?Link please.
DAMN :shadedshu:mad::banghead:
I would also discourage the fanboy attitudes already emerging in this thread...get whichever is best, they're both unreleased yet..
also, this comes out on my birthday
mega lol
G200 is evolved G92 which is evolved G80. So it's more like a "new G80" as it's targeted for ultra high-end rather than performance-sector as G92.Well obviously nV chips are incompatible with Ubisoft's DX10.1 as removing that removes problems with nV GPUs.
when sp1 installed nvidia cards perform the same as no sp1 installed. There is no incompatibility, they run fine with dx10.1, but don't use it's features. So they run in dx10 mode even if dx10.1 isntalled.