Thursday, March 19th 2009
GeForce GTX 275 a Non-Reference Design, Launch Coincides With Radeon HD 4890
With AMD's new graphics card: the Radeon HD 4890 heading towards an April 6~8 worldwide launch, NVIDIA is looking at the situation carefully. While not wanting to spend much into devising a countermeasure, it still wants to address the potential threat Radeon HD 4890 poses. The most recent exposé by Taiwanese website OC Heaven shows there is reason to be optimistic about the performance HD 4890 could end up offering. NVIDIA's counter to the HD 4890 depends on where exactly it lands in its competitive positioning against NVIDIA. If it is closer to or better than what the GeForce GTX 285 offers, NVIDIA may bring in price-cuts for the GTX 285, making it more competitive, but if it is poised somewhere between the GTX 260 (216SP) and GTX 285, the new SKU GTX 275 will be brought in.
The new GPU will be specified to have all its 240 stream processors enabled, while having the memory interface GTX 260 comes with: 448-bit GDDR3, with memory configurations of 896 MB or 1792 MB. Furthermore, its development will be care of NVIDIA's partners, who gain license to do so from the company. NVIDIA will not develop a reference design. The launch of the new SKU will coincide with that of the HD 4890, perhaps a few days trailing it.
Source:
Expreview
The new GPU will be specified to have all its 240 stream processors enabled, while having the memory interface GTX 260 comes with: 448-bit GDDR3, with memory configurations of 896 MB or 1792 MB. Furthermore, its development will be care of NVIDIA's partners, who gain license to do so from the company. NVIDIA will not develop a reference design. The launch of the new SKU will coincide with that of the HD 4890, perhaps a few days trailing it.
29 Comments on GeForce GTX 275 a Non-Reference Design, Launch Coincides With Radeon HD 4890
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So there must be some change, even if it is nothing more than laser cut fuses, and possibly upgraded power circuitry.
Unfortunately, RV790 and GTX275 seem to bring no performance per watt gains.
All this revisions and crap is getting old, I dont want 5-10% gains from this or that, i was 50-100% more POWER!
Im getting ready to upgrade my GPU and sorry I want more then a GTX285 and I want a none SLI system, 98% of the games I play done use it, and the ones that do, play fine on 1 8800GT, even @1920x1200.
And about crushing... they already own the "crown"... what do you expect them to own more, the peasant itself?... No can't do... that's called and anti-trust breach and monopolization.
Professional level is a whole different story.
They are just wasting their time and especially money with this, small improvements won't do sh*t all with the trouble they are in. Once ATI is in, they will get the sales at the start and will continue a bit more frequently due to first impressions.
Plus the GTX 260 and 280 sales are gonna die out this way.
NV would rip us all off big time with no AMD\ATI. So let them play it and just do less upgrades hey after all it saves us money :)..
Unfair, it's faster than my GTX 280 :) 31MHz in core and 57MHz in memory.
If the briefing I got from Nvidia still holds to their word it'll fall between the 260 and 280, they'd stated that their naming system will remain linear (bigger the number better the card).
That would make it 260, 275, 280, 285, 295.
At least that's what I'd like to see, keep things simple, here lately it's been a regular gaggle of cards and they need to keep the naming scheme consistent.