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GT200 GTX280/260 "official specs"
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you can play ut3 and shoot the walls and it will explode OMGZOR i dont know why they did that as there is nearly no games that use psyX
The 8800 GTS 640 was over £200 for a very long time. :\
Unlikely.
If past releases are anything to go by, we're looking at release-day prices of around £400-£450 for the GTX-280 part, and £325-£375 for the GTX-260 part. These are all high-end parts, and the mainstream market will continue to be serviced by the G92 parts already available.
The weak dollar (~$2.00/£ now as opposed to ~$1.85/£ when the 8-series was released) may push prices down a further 10% or so, but I wouldn't count on it. Expect prices to drop by £50 or so after a couple of weeks though, when the initial rush and price-gouging subsides a little.
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how did they get 448 bit?
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Who wants to bet that they'll cut the memory bus down to 256bit again, come next year? 
True, but the GTS320 (also a mainstream enthusiast part) was available at under £200 shortly after launch.
Still, it may be wishful thinking on my part - I'm kinda hoping that NV will be using conservative clocks (to keep it away from GTX280 levels) and place it not too far above the 9800GTX in terms of price point.
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I believe G80 cores are bandwidth starved at high resolutions with AA enabled...
R600 was the one that had too much bandwidth, as was R580+ before it. RV670 is about right. G80 and G92 i think are bandwidth starved.
Anyway, i expect a refresh of this chip with 256 bit and GDDR5 to perform about the same a year from now.
The GTS320 was released 3 months after the GTX and GTS640, and took a further 6months to drop consitently below £200. This was also at a time when Nvidia did not have competetive mid-high range products. The situation is quite the opposite now, with the mid-high end market (£150-£250 price point) heavily saturated by both nvidia and ATI.
Don't expect to be able to grab one of these new cards for much less than £300 until around Christmas. Mark my words.
I concur with that. I am pretty sure that my 1900xt when overclocked had a lot more bandwidth than my 8800, hell even at stock I think it did. Shame it had to go break on me. Those specs do look pretty beefy and should pack a punch, but when i next upgrade my build in september I will go back to the red team 'cause I will be on a budget.
In principle you have swayed me somewhat, although the GTS320 was definitely under £200 soon after launch (I got my factory overclocked BFG version for under £200 in the first week of March 2007, that's less than 5 months after the first Geforce 8 cards were launched, never mind 9 months!). Point taken about it not being a launch card though.
The thing is, looking at NV's current lineup, there's basically no new cards between the 9800GTX (£175) and the 9800GX2 (£330). With the 3870x2 priced competitively at around £220, they need to slot something in around the £200-250 pricepoint.
£200 is probably a bit optimistic but I'm hoping for £250.