Monday, March 30th 2009
GeForce GTX 275 Catches Early Flight, Launch Brought Forward to April 2
As reviewers world-over unbox their Radeon HD 4890 samples, NVIDIA, in a last-bid attempt not to give ATI a fortnight's headstart over GeForce GTX 275, has pulled its launch forward to April 2, the day Radeon HD 4890 hits shelves. Our sources however, indicate that this will be merely a paper-launch for NVIDIA, meaning that the actual product doesn't exist in retail channels, only that its SKU officially exists, get listed, perhaps gets open to pre-orders by retailers, and what's more, even previewed.
It will be mid-April by the time retailers actually start to sell GeForce GTX 275 accelerators. The accelerators will be of non-reference designs, with the specifications we know so far: 55 nm G200b GPU, 240 stream processors, 448-bit GDDR3 memory interface, and 896 or 1792 MB of memory. The clock speeds the card will run at are known to be 633/1404/1138 MHz (core/shader/memory). Its price will be very competitive with that of the Radeon HD 4890, around the US $250 mark.
It will be mid-April by the time retailers actually start to sell GeForce GTX 275 accelerators. The accelerators will be of non-reference designs, with the specifications we know so far: 55 nm G200b GPU, 240 stream processors, 448-bit GDDR3 memory interface, and 896 or 1792 MB of memory. The clock speeds the card will run at are known to be 633/1404/1138 MHz (core/shader/memory). Its price will be very competitive with that of the Radeon HD 4890, around the US $250 mark.
17 Comments on GeForce GTX 275 Catches Early Flight, Launch Brought Forward to April 2
If im missing some thing, please post it.
They both , ATI and NV are just milking a stagnate(sp) market, trying to apeal to the mid class and highend PC buyers.
But I mean come on, GTX260 196/216 now this is realy just another 260 with a new name, they could have even done GTX260 240 or some crap, but w/e.
ATI is no better, ok so we have a good chip, well let tweak it some, and give it a new name and sell it again.
I know both will be better cards, i have no doughts about this, but with games out that still cant be maxed @ HD rez with good amounts of AA/AF I think NV would have been much better off with striking with the GT212, it should be 25% faster then the GTX280, not sure what they will call this one, maybe GTX290 would be about right, cause it should be 10-15%less then GTX295 when SLI works for it.
Completely logical: 4830<4850<4870<4890.
What nv is doing is a lot more confusing, i mean three different card with the same name? (gtx260)
But what they did to g92 is a joke too..
I 100% agree the 8800/9800 was dumb, and the GTS250 is dumb, but I can see why that changed the 9800GTX+.
I want a new card release to mean something other than 10% increase of clock speeds.
4830<4750<4850 ;)