nvidia geforce gtx 280 and gtx 260 specification

[ancientrites]

*www.dvhardware.net/article27294.html

GeForce GTX 280:
512-Bit
1GB GDDR3
240 Stream Processors
PhysX Ready
CUDA Technology
PureVideo HD technology
Full MS DirectX 10 Support
Open GL 2.1, SLI, PCIe 2.0 Support
2nd gen. Unified architecture delivers 50% more gaming performance over 1st gen. through 240 shader processors

GeForce GTX 260:
448-Bit
896MB GDDR3
192 Stream Processors
PhysX Ready
CUDA Technology
PureVideo HD technology
Full MS DirectX 10 Support
Open GL 2.1, SLI, PCIe 2.0 Support

some other news *www.pureoverclock.com/story.php?id=2101
The 280 has 240 stream processors and runs at a clock of 602MHz, a massive miss on what the firm intended. The processor clock runs at 1296MHz and the memory is at 1107MHz. The high-end part has 1G of GDDR3 at 512b width. This means that they are pretty much stuck offering 1G cards, not a great design choice here.

The 280 has 32ROPs and feeds them with a six and eight-pin PCIe connector. Remember NV mocking ATI over the eight-pin when the 2900 launched, and how they said they would never use it? The phrase 'hypocritical worms' come to mind, especially since it was on their roadmap at the time. This beast takes 236W max, so all those of you who bought mongo PSUs may have to reinvest if they ever get three or four-way SLI functional.

The cards are 10.5-inch parts, and each one will put out 933GFLOPS. Looks like they missed the magic teraflop number by a good margin. Remember we said they missed the clock frequencies by a lot? Here is where it must sting a bit more than usual, sorry NV, no cigar

 

[dOm1naTOr]

They are still DX 10, and GDDR3?????
and whats fab?
the only thing gr8 bout it is 512 bit mem cotroller[which makes them more expensive too]....
seems nvidia is following ATI's 512 bit mem technology which was used in 2900XT, but 3870 used just 256-bit to bring down the cost.

Even HD 4870 is using 256 bit but much higher clocked memory GDDR5. So cost will be less, but the GPU nd ckts needs support for GDDR5.
By the specs HD 4870 is more promissing with 480 shader units, 1G GDDR5, DX 10.1, openGL 2.1, PCIE 2.0, nd 55nm fab.

ny news bout the launch date of gtx 280?

 

[ancientrites]

*www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7364&Itemid=1

Geforce GTX 280 to launch on June 18th

The launch should take place on the 18th of June, just in the middle of week 25, and at current schedule that is two days after ATI's RV770 launch.

The name Geforce GTX 280 looks a bit odd, but I am sure that we will get used to it. The only other alternative was to use a Geforce 9900 cliché, but we believe that GT200 deserves a better name. As it's been suggested on many occasions, GT200 chip will have significantly more Shader units and the most frequent number that we heard was 240. We are still working on getting the confirmation of this bold spec.

Nvidia just ran out of numbers and it’s starting all over again. It's like resetting the odometer, more or less.

 

[dOm1naTOr]

so ATI has more room to grow before they too run out of numbers [within 10k] lolololol

Once ATI too ran out of numbers with 9800Pro/XT and started all over again from 300 [X300~800, then X1300~1900,...]

 

[x3060]

funny numbers this time by nvidia...i guess ati wins this time...

 

[j1n M@tt]

nVidia is again fooling around with new DX10.0 cards again!!???......

 

[dOm1naTOr]

GTX 280 is less that 1Tflop? even HD 3870 X 2 was at 1Tflop...and single HD 870 promise to surpass 1Tflop.
So X2 will be around 2Tflops and still be cheaper or same price as GTX 280