GeForce 9900 GTX & GTS Slated For July Launch

[EternityZX9]

is this card still due for release this month?

Yes, June 18th I believe.

[p2501]

is this card still due for release this month?

They kept their word with the first deadline, why should they change the second one? The cards are ready and people are benching already so all that's left is ramping up production to fill up stock until release I guess..

I'm really amazed about those idle power draw numbers, if they turn out to be somewhere near reality then this is awesome. I'd be folding on it anyway, but still I think it's important that a card of this calibre and price has some kind of intelligent power saving feature.

[LightSpeed]

Why? ATi has 6+8-pin from famous R600 core ...

i never said that the r600 wasnt power hungry, it sure was, and moreover it underperformed

i simply said the GTX280 is a power hungry monster, and maybe all that power consumed will be well worth it due to monstrous performance

i just hope ati gets the 4870 out in time, it would royally suck if they delayed it for another two months or so. 4850 does look ok, but isnt anything spectacular

[Donster]

ahh great stuff im just in the process of choosing new hardware so ill defo wait for these!!! thanks guys

[Syn.]

Why? ATi has 6+8-pin from famous R600 core ...

Please dont start that again, lets just talk about GTX280 only in this thread.

[MomijiTMO]

I like how nVidia has this boxy think happening with their cards.

[[XC] hipno650]

that is one dang sexy card i would have to say. nice package. now we need the numbers

[MuffinFlavored]

Some guy from another forum explained that GPU-Z doesn't prove anything and just retrieves basic data stored in its database for a particular GPU. Which is true.

So the writers of GPU-Z created the database entry for GTX 280 with those numbers (they took to the rumors or received information from NVidia) and it just displays those numbers. As can be seen, it can't detect the card's clocks.

W1zzard is the writer of GPU-Z.
There is a "database entry" for each card for amount of ROPs and the die size and etc.
I am almost positive nVIDIA provided him with the information, he is up there with the cool cats.

And GPU-Z does detect clock changes and your current clocks.

[ANP !!!]

512bit is what attracts me to the GT280, but the price

[DMH]

Probably the card only draws 150W from power but also releases 80W of heat(or something like this)

[CERO]

The card looks very positive in every way except for the price

[ownage]

Probably the card only draws 150W from power but also releases 80W of heat(or something like this)

Total board power is 236watt, 150watt is probably the GPU alone.

[DMH]

W1zzard is the writer of GPU-Z.
There is a "database entry" for each card for amount of ROPs and the die size and etc.
I am almost positive nVIDIA provided him with the information, he is up there with the cool cats.

And GPU-Z does detect clock changes and your current clocks.

It was someone with a GT-200 ES who send him a BIOS

[Isaac MM]

I want benches

[disruptfam]

^^^^

We All Do

[Atal]

woooo! we're getting there! when is this launch again?? :P

[Psykocyber]

Is there an expected date for benches?

[Pederrs]

looks like one power hungry monster

Nope....

Idle: 25W
3DMark06: 147W

http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=283808

[AliG]

Why? ATi has 6+8-pin from famous R600 core ...

ohh here we go again, just stop posting about ati. period. your word on ati holds so little value these days its not even worth your time to do so. Yes the r600 was a power hungry child in a monster costume, but no one said it wasn't, and the competition between ati and nvidia wasn't as heated as it is now, especially where price/performance and heat levels are starting to mean a lot

[trinibwoy]

Total board power is 236watt, 150watt is probably the GPU alone.

236 has to be a peak number. The numbers in the slide are measured. The 45w for the 9800GTX is for the entire board. So it's safe to assume that the 150w on the GTX280 is for the entire board as well.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/vid...9800gtx_7.html

The dual-PCB 9800GX2 pulls only 180w. I don't know why there's so much misinformation and misunderstanding about power consumption. It's like some great conspiracy to sell expensive PSU's or something.

[zerazax]

Nope....

Idle: 25W
3DMark06: 147W

http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=283808

That's just the card itself - it's still more than any other out there

[natty]

I don't know why there's so much misinformation and misunderstanding about power consumption. It's like some great conspiracy to sell expensive PSU's or something.

[largon]

HussanAli,
Then you might want to head for the proper thread?


*points at thread title*

[iTravis]

Hm....sexy beast but I'm more lean toward the GTX 260, $600+ doesn't seem to be a win-win situation for me.

[largon]

Probably the card only draws 150W from power but also releases 80W of heat(or something like this)

But surely, video cards can't violate the second law of thermodynamics. What goes in, must come out.
150W power draw = ~150W heat output.