Quote Originally Posted by AuDioFreaK39 View Post
a week after CES and GTX 295

by AuDioFreaK39

The guys over at OCWorkbench claim to have received official confirmation from NVIDIA regarding the release of the GeForce GTX 285. The card will launch on January 15th, just one week after the debut of dual-PCB GeForce GTX 295 and the first day of CES 2009.

As reported earlier, several Taiwanese retailers have already begun listing ASUS and XFX GeForce GTX 285 cards, with pricing roughly similar to the GTX 280 regardless of region or country.

While the new 55nm card is expected to have an average 10% performance gain over its 65nm GTX 280 predecessor, it is important to note that Nvidia's 40nm GT212s are just around the corner and may even be introduced at lower price points due to effective reductions in manufacturing costs.

Also read:

Asus and XFX GTX 285 and 295 listed

55nm Geforce GTX 285 vs. 65nm GTX 280 performance

Nvidia's 40nm GT212 to have 384 SPs, 96 TMUs



(article to be up on Fudzilla soon)
I find this whole GT212 business to be BS... I mean come on! Why would nvidia release the GTX295, a new flagship, only to release another "flagship" (only single GPU to boot) between the 295 and GT300. It just doesn't make any sense. I would think that as far as flagship is concerned, the 285 and 295 will be it until the GT300...

Also, there used to be rumors flying around that the GT300 was going to be this 384sp card that we are now labeling as the GT212... there is just too much BS flying around here to know what to believe.