NVIDIA GT200 now known as GeForce GTX 280/260?
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From GT200 will GeForce GTX 280/260
15th May 2008 The Namenswirrwar of recent months even as Nvidia seems to have disrupted, so that for the GT200 seems to be a completely new naming scheme in the day sets. The serious Taiwanese side will HKEPC from several sources, that the new cards as a family "GeForce GTX 200" to be published.
The term "Nvidia GeForce GTX 280" remains the fastest option reserved for the former variant of a planned 9900 GT (S) becomes the 260th GeForce GTX. To distinguish the models now in its numbering, although the same family. This will be less confusing for customers, after last through the various shortcuts and countless renaming a transit vision in the current Nvidia graphics cards almost exclusively for experts was possible. What exactly is tuned, however, and whether the rumour confirmed to be in the 25th Week to be clarified when it comes to showdown of the new graphics card from Nvidia against the Radeon 4000 series from AMD. According to HKEPC is Nvidia on 18. June introduce its new models, while AMD's launch plan probably to 18. June have preferred.
german source: http://www.computerbase.de/news/hard...e_gtx_280_260/
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seems like the original news on hkpc was pulled out as i can't find it anywhere on their site.
so the GT becomes GeForce GTX 260 and the highend part GTX 280.