The error in this case is the most common thing, and it happens lots of times:
Codenames & the real stuff.
How many of you think that GT200 is the real codename ?
Codenames are a part of the game, not the "source" ;)
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G200 is the codename, as evident from the chip shots seen on various pages.
Remember the last photos of the GT200 cooler???
http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/5...9478612ne9.jpg
now look at this card :
http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/488...iaeditoup6.jpg
;)
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regards
Is this 18th June launch a paper launch or will the cards be available in stores on the 18th ?
A low availability launch always sucks big time, hope decent numbers of physical cards are ready for release.
Dang. Searched and still can't find information regarding the bolt pattern around the GPU. Any chance old 8800/9800 air and water will mount on this new card?
NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 280 will be impressive
Just wait until June 17th when the GTX 200 series of GPU's launch, and you'll start asking yourself when you last witnessed such a dramatic technology improvement. If you thought the GeForce 8 series blew the 7-series out of the water, this is going to leave you in shock. That's not my own marketing spin... Benchmark Reviews is presently testing the new GeForce video card.
Benchmarkreviews
Source : If that is true I'm going to faint. M-m-m-m-mooooonster card. :D
Bigger performance increase then from 7 series to 8!!!!!!
gundamit,
According to the leaked 3D model of the G200 cicuit board the centers of the mounting holes are 61mm apart so they aren't compatible with those on G80/G92 which are 54mm apart.
Looks about right to me.
http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/6...day2008yh0.jpg
The above image lightened a bit, I don't think anything is being faked here. Just the perspective is different.
http://img55.imageshack.us/img55/143...iaeditoft9.jpg
Yeah looks alright in this picture on the other one it seems bigger, or is it a case of a worse photoshop :)
(if ya notice the weirdness in the shadow behind the CEO, seems something was chopped...)
i gotta say, as a long time nv owner, who has never owned an ATI card, if the rumors turned out to be true that GTX 280 costs >$600USD ... the rumored 4870's $350USD price tag sounds very good
but then again, for 600 bux the GTX 280 might be another 8800GTX = long product life... arrrrgh hard to choose
wonder why they didnt have a 8900GTX that was done on 65nm and has higher core clock, and more ROP/shaders//TMU ..etc, like 7800 GTX 512/7900GTX vs 7800GTX 256
Can't have your cake and eat it too....
7800GTX-512 had higher clocks on the same process and ran hotter
7900GTX had higher clocks on a smaller process and ran cooler
Neither had an increase in any type of unit over the original 7800GTX-256.
Expecting a 8900GTX on the same 65nm process as G92 with both higher clocks and higher unit counts is a bit optimistic. G92 wasn't exactly sipping power.
Still, it looks like Nvidia came in 100Mhz shy of its target shader clock...1400Mhz would have taken them to the 1 Teraflop finish line.
fornowagain, thanks for the alternative picture. But even if the first one was shopped, based on yours I'd still say this thing is massive, even though the 4870x2 is going to be a huge chunk of copper, too.
But what I really wonder is how much energy this thing will suck while idling around. ~240w peak seems much, okay, but when they managed to keep the idle pwr draw to a minimum I'd be okay with it.
Don't act like a jerk please.Quote:
Originally Posted by LordEC911
Don't know what made you say that, but it's definitely not beneficial for yourself, and surely not for another member of XS.
here is coverage of Nvidias editors day 2008; http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.ph...=178&Itemid=46
taken right from article, "Video games are now seeing an added dependence on physics processing, just as well as GPU and CPU. GPU's Such as NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce graphics processor have shifted the dependence of video games onto the GPU, and added an on-board PhysX co-processor, it won't be long before the CPU really offers no level of performance for video games."
DAM!!
I find it funny that nvidia is highlighting piclens, an ok firefox plugin.
I trust DilTech and BenchZowner about GTX 280. Hope you are enjoying the toys! :)
Now games just needs to catch up...
@alig
yeah, i was just thinking exactly the same thing
especially the statement "on-board" makes that apparent (physix is not managed by the gpu, otherwise it would have been "on-die" or something like that)
after all, who would actually use a gt200 card inside a media center pc, there are cards taking only 1/10 of the electricity, are much quieter and cheaper, but still offer good hd support (if nvio is not integrated in the gpu, which i seriously doubt; only reason that thing is included is to make specs more impressive/ people using that card shure have a processor running hd without gpu support)
It's NVIO 2.0, not PhysX.