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Rumour control: NVIDIA’s GTX 280 pictured
New images show latest GeForce to have dual power connectors, plus further specs revealed
Nvidia’s tightly controlled information ship has been
springing multiple leakages in the last few weeks before its next graphics
generation is launched. Latest to trickle through the hull are full pictures of
what looks like the top-of-the-range GTX 280. These appear virtually identical
to the 3D drawings we revealed a week ago,
when we were still expecting the GT200 to be called the GeForce 9900.
The pictures clearly show 8-pin and 6-pin power connectors
on the top of the PCB, capable of supplying 225W to the card, although actual power usage may not be quite so high. You can’t tell much more from
the pictures, other than the massive size of the GPU. Elsewhere, the die has
been measured at 576mm2,
which is 75 per cent larger than G92, and still larger than the G80.
Much more detail on the card’s specification has also leaked
out in the last week. The GTX 280 will allegedly have 240 stream processors,
compared to the 9800 GTX’s total of 128. It will have a 512-bit memory bus, but
still use 1GB of GDDR3 (while ATI will be using GDDR5 in its upcoming RV770). The
cut-down GTX 260 will offer 192 stream processors, and will use a 448-bit
memory bus with just 896MB of GDDR3.
NVIDIA is also claiming its next generation of stream
processors will be 50 per cent faster. So if this is true both cards will be
formidable powerhouses, and even be capable of bringing Crysis to its knees at
top resolutions and quality settings.
Probably the biggest controversy, however, is the rumoured
lack of DirectX 10.1 support, which ATI will have on its next generation.
Opinions vary on the value of this – but the lack of the latest features has
caused many cards to fail in the past. This may not be as big an omission as
the lack of hardware Transform and Lighting in the 3dfx Voodoo 5. But it may become
significant with future titles.
The images originate from www.pcpop.com
via Expreview,
although our Chinese is a little rusty so we can’t tell you much more about where
Pcpop got the pics from…
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Errrr. They are bringing something new to market. Both are releasing new GPU and both are more than just a tweak of an old old. How is this old news?
Comment by l3v1ck at 10:04pm 1st June 2008
Same old fanboyistic arguments. This is yesterdays news and it is still yesterdays news when they are released. Buy it, live with it, bin it. Computing news flashes like this are getting boring. It's always the same and it always will be. ATi and NVIDIA need to bring something new to the market. Take it too the carestation.
Comment by C7ouD at 10:36pm 28th May 2008
Actually, AMD developed GDDR5 to be cheaper and faster than previous versions of GDDR, and they knew that it would give them a chance of competing with Nvidia for Price and performance this time round!!
Comment by NikoBellic at 12:54pm 27th May 2008
for a start if you havent read that most high end power supplies come with an 6+2pin PCI-E, or that most graphics cards high end require such a connection, then does it seem obvious where the flaw lies ? :) I think these cards will be canny good ! but are these just single cores? what about the dual core nonsense that was flying around not so long ago! The price will be cheaper and bloody better than ATI... GDDR5 will be expensive, and if nvidia do well with just gddr3, then thats nvidia knowing what ther doing :)
Comment by Lightning_Pete at 5:57pm 25th May 2008
It looks good in todays games... but it doesn't look all that "future proof"....
Comment by NikoBellic at 5:33am 25th May 2008
The lack of SM3 didn't stop the X800 selling well and I doubt the lack of DX10.1 will stop this selling well. It's the performance in current games that matters and this card will wipe the floor with everything else out there at the moment. I just relly hope this card can run Crysis at very high settings at high resolutions (eg 1600x1200).
Comment by l3v1ck at 8:17pm 24th May 2008
The GTX 260 has 896MB of memory because of its 448-bit rather than 512-bit memory controller. Or something like that. Assuming these specs are correct... ;^>
Comment by jdmorris at 11:24pm 23rd May 2008
this is going to be the budget version...y'know £300-ish budget version! then the DDR5/DX10.1 version will be released in all it's full-fat, £400+ glory...in time for xmas. I really do not see the point of giving the smaller card only 104Mb less memory. 768mb would be more sensible to me in a diet version or there abouts. wierd!
Comment by EdArch at 10:44pm 23rd May 2008
The now dated GDDR3 and lack of DX10.1 support surprises me, but maybe Cybersciver has a point. Could this just be a stopgap card until they can get the real thing(with GDDR5 and Native DX10.1) to work? Give ATI a false sense of security them pounce on them with a monster card, 6 months down the line...
Comment by psychot1c at 6:15pm 23rd May 2008
The now dated GDDR3 and lack of DX10.1 support surprises me, but maybe Cybersciver has a point. Could this just be a stopgap card until they can get the real thing(with GDDR5 and Native DX10.1) to work? Give ATI a false sense of security them pounce on them with a monster card, 6 months down the line...
Comment by psychot1c at 6:15pm 23rd May 2008
We might just be seeing Nvidia get a slight bit scared of the 4870, because now we're starting to see GPUs with a difference!! (about time too!!)
Comment by NikoBellic at 6:08pm 23rd May 2008
Gonna be tight, 2 gigs of sys RAM then another 1 on your gfx. It'll keep my 4 gigs warm, and feed my hungry 30".
Comment by joeamnesiac at 3:40pm 23rd May 2008
Interesting, looks like a workhorse, but a 500 bit memory bus with good old-fashioned GDDR3 gives half the bandwith of ATI's 250 bit bus with spanking-new GDDR5. And of course it'll be twice the price of the 4780 and then probably replaced by a 55nm version with GDDR5 in time for Xmas. Interesting times ahead.
Comment by Cybersciver at 3:07pm 23rd May 2008
fine fine fine, i won't update you next time so you can copy my work *cries* haha, i just post the info for ppl to take a quick read on the forums, i never get chance to do any of my own opinions or anything, grrr, haha, anyway lets hope this is a step forward in the right direction reading ur article about lack luster cards
Comment by DLEProductions at 11:10pm 22nd May 2008
Yeah, the specs have been 'outed' for a day or two, but we hadn't put them in print yet so they seemed to fit nicely with these very revealing pics.
Comment by jdmorris1 at 9:59pm 22nd May 2008
i posted a topic up on the hardware forum before this was made with specs, ner ner ner i got here first, haha, jus not the pics :D dean
Comment by DLEProductions at 9:17pm 22nd May 2008
I would of thought they would of learn't from ATIs mistake, of adding 8 + 6 pin Power adapters... most people hated that... so come on Nvidia, you had better make this work... or at least, make something better than the 2900 come out of it!!
Comment by NikoBellic at 8:46pm 22nd May 2008
Nvidia, realizing that between the several hundred 8800GTS cards and the 8-9 series renaming they have completely destroyed their naming convention... make a new one! Still, the card looks good!
Comment by NotFred at 7:33pm 22nd May 2008
It has an 8 pin Power connector !!!! I like just bought a £70 600w OCZ PSU and it doesnt have an 8 pin connector It better come with an adaptor or im gonna get furious :)
Comment by andrew_girdler at 7:05pm 22nd May 2008
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