Tuesday, December 2nd 2008
First Images of NVIDIA's 55nm GT200b GPU Emerge
Thanks to our friends over at Expreview, we can post what's reported as the first photo of NVIDIA's 55nm GT200b graphics core. According to the information, all NVIDIA cores marked with the G200-103-B2 nomenclature are made using NVIDIA's 55nm processing technology. First cards to ship with the revised GPU will be GeForce GTX 260 series. The video cards will hit the market in January next year, with unchanged memory (896MB) and stream processor specs (216sp). Non-reference versions of the cards as well as reported GT200b models of GeForce GTX 280 and dual-core GeForce GTX 260GX2 will go on sale at the same time, too. Hopefully, the installment of the new core will bring prices of the NVIDIA cards further down.
Source:
Expreview
25 Comments on First Images of NVIDIA's 55nm GT200b GPU Emerge
God i hope the prices come down, parts prices are killing me atm. Especially in Aussie.
DAMN. No Xmas GTX260 for me then. Need to wait until Jan. :rolleyes: Shame, I wanted to build a new machine in the holidays.
Nvidia with a B2 and the new Intel chip has a TLB issue? I would fire the PR people. :D
additionally, sounds like I'm good with my 4870X2 for a long while yet then ;) still stomps everything I'd ever want it to lol
I could see them releasing a GTX260GX2 just to take the crown again, but if its true 40nm will be out H2 2009 I can't see them releasing the full G200 linup again in 55nm.
Unless they've been building them and suddenly figured out their 40nm would be easier/cheaper by a lot. And now they have stock.
I have not seen nVIDIA board that could work at true PCIe v.2 clock. And nVIDIA "v.2" frequency would not be enough.
It has probably taken so long because 55nm production has been limitted, and nVidia focussed on the G92 cores with 55nm first, to get costs down on their mid-range cards because they knew the G92 cards would be filling the mid-range segment. So all their 55nm production resources were focussed on G92 until now.
About time Nvidia come out with a new GX2 part. I like the 260 going that route. Id imagine ATI will have their refresh done by then to compete.