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AMD's 40nm GPU release possibly Q1 09

Greebo said:
A GTX280 on 55nm.......for a while.

I don't think Nvidia is in the running this time until the next gen IMO.

It's like where ATI was after the release of the 2900xt.
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Lets not be too harsh, it's no 2900xt! The GTX200 is still based on the 8800 series which is still a hell of a card. A move to GDDR5 and a smaller bus combined with the extra clock speeds from the move to 55nm will make it look much better for the green side.
 
Owenb said:
Lets not be too harsh, it's no 2900xt! The GTX200 is still based on the 8800 series which is still a hell of a card. A move to GDDR5 and a smaller bus combined with the extra clock speeds from the move to 55nm will make it look much better for the green side.
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Yes it will but they need it before ati's 40nm, it more likely be like the 3*** for ati if ati get their 40nm out at the same time.
 
actually if you've kept an eye on the price lately the nvidia cards are not such bad buys after all. It's just when you start looking at multi-gpu solutions that they look absolutely terrible when compared with ATIs current offerings.
 
It isnt as if there claiming insane new performane, it looks similar to the G80/G92 scenario so far as I can tell. They have been on 55nm for quite a while now, and the number of shaders etc isnt a country mile away from where we are at now. I wonder what kind of percentage gains the cards will offer over the current crop.

Maybe ATi had the right idea afterall.

Martyn
 
Monkeynut said:
Actually, with this release we'll get 40nm IGPs hopefully so better battery life in laptops.
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Already CPU power usage going down, i'd really hope Intel would decrease the power usage to 20w on the CPU's next time, coupled with an SSD and a die shrunk graphics chip that should easily hit 4 hours + under light load.
 
Nvidia's offerings don't seem bad after the new prices. The GTX260 sounds like a good deal if you used using Nvidia's products. This rumour of 2000 shaders sounds very nice to me. I will really need all that power for Operation Flashpoint 2 and the other nice games that are coming out :)
 
MystaEB said:
This seems highly unlikely to me.
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R600 - 320 shaders, at the time seemed very unlikely.

RV770 - 800 shaders, 2.5 times the number of shaders in RV670, but far under twice the size of RV670, this is on the same 55nm manufacturing process.

RV870 - rumoured to have 2000 shaders, again, 2.5 times the number of the previous die (RV770), except this time on a much smaller manufacturing process.

Free your mind. :)

Edit: That said, AMD is on a 6-month release cycle, and has been ever since it released R600, the 2900 XT.
 
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