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Gigabyte jumps the gun with 40nm

According to our info, Nvidia's GT 220, 40nm GT216-300 GPU, will be officially announced in about three weeks time. The Gigabyte GT 220 ended up online as apparently Gigabyte "misunderstood" Nvidia's directions, but in three weeks, most, if not every, Nvidia partner will show its own versions.

The GT 220, and others, should be Nvidia's first 40nm DX10.1 chips meant for retail. As you already know, the G, GT and GTS 2x0 parts for OEM have been listed a while back. The Gigabyte GT 220 works at 720MHz for the core and comes with 1GB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 1600MHz and paired up with a 128-bit memory interface. It has 48 stream processors with a shader clock set at 1568MHz. It comes with DVI, D-Sub and HDMI outputs as well as non-reference cooling solution.

These are, of course, the clocks that Gigabyte will use on its GT 220 OC version, so the rest might have lower or even higher clocks. The card should hit retail with an affordable price tag and there might be more cards in the same batch, but we can't yet confirm those rumours.

In any case you can expect more "non-GT 300" related info as we wait for that November 27th.
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For anyone that's interested in a new release of old tech on 40nm
 
D13 said:
how is it a simple re-name when its 40nm?

all that matters is how it performs and how much it costs
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Yeah my bad, they've also stuck it on a smaller die and added Dx10.1. :)

Didn't ATi do this way back when with the 2900's, or were they still on same process, can't remember now.
 
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mr_x_plosion said:
Isn't this just a budget card though? (sure looks it)

I don't see the problem really.
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the problem is that its nvidia, when parents want to scare their kids they tell them of the big bad nvidia bogie man thats going to come into the house at night and rename their video cards.
that was sarcasm btw
 
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LoadsaMoney said:
Yeah my bad, they've also stuck it on a smaller die and added Dx10.1. :)

Didn't ATi do this way back when with the 2900's, or were they still on same process, can't remember now.
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yes. the 3800 (rv670) was a 2800 on a smaller process (55nm vs 80nm). the only real difference was the memory controller (far more efficiant, meaining a 256bit bus could be used and still more than compete) and obviously the heat output and power draw.
 
LoadsaMoney said:
Im not impressed with this answer to the 5800's :/
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Yea shame isn't it..

Is this any better?

Nvidia said in a statement, “The gaming world has moved to dynamic realism, which depicts actual physical movement more realistically than ever before. For example, the No. 1 PC game coming out next week is ‘Batman: Arkham Assyum,’ which takes advantage of graphics plus physics to give it extraordinary realism. Because we support GPU-accelerated physics, our $129 card that’s shipping today is faster than their new RV870 (code name for new AMD chips) that sells for $399.”
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:D
 
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