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GT200 GTX280/260 "official specs"

The GT280 will be £400-£500 at launch without a doubt... we will get price-gouged as always in the initial stages until availability increases.
 
Reports are coming in that it will be cheaper and a day early at that.

Forget about benches out so far - wait for anand or [H] to do a proper test.
 
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ATI for me...
 
I was expecting something like 60-70 fps on 1080p res....... :/

what happened to 2x 3x the previous card performance.... i missed the old days.
 
NVIDIA IS CHANGING the GT200 launch date again, this whole 'let's prove them wrong when they leak' thing is getting tiring. That said, there are a few goodies here and there in the email that Ken Brown sent yesterday.

The meat of the email that went out to reviewers is that the launch date has moved from the 17th to the 16th at 6am PDT. They claim that the 280 will be available the next day, and the 260 comes later, on the 26th. One word to reviewers, make sure you check the retail prices with partners before you quote price/performance numbers, NV has a dirty tricks campaign lined up here, we told you they would have to drop the price when they saw the 770 number, and they did.

There are also a bunch of new things on the NV press FTP site, including 177.34 drivers, up from the 177.26 we tested with. We would be shocked if these were not special press-tweaked drivers, so beware of scores tested with these last-minute releases. Also included are a folding@home client, now possible due to the unbreaking of their architecture this time around, the Elemental "Badaboom!" encoding application, and a bunch of documentation.

Speaking of tweaked drivers, the next new one is coming next week, and it is a PhysX driver. Look for this one to pump 3DMark Vantage scores to the moon, you can do that when you own the API. Sigh.

The more things change, the more they are gamable. µ
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/06/12/nvidia-changes-gt200-dates
 
Trunks9486 said:
When did that happen? Best case scenario is double last gen performance as far as i remember
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Well my 8800GT gets 10< FPS at 1900x1200 on DX10 HIGH settings so that would mean 20fps for the 8800GT successor which is still ass. The ATI performance figures look much nicer especially as they include 4xFSAA.
 
Nothing new there TheRealDeal. It's tradition :D

Also take what Inq says with a pinch of salt. They seem to have a tiresome grudge against NVIDIA.
 
Tom|Nbk said:
Nothing new there TheRealDeal. It's tradition :D

Also take what Inq says with a pinch of salt. They seem to have a tiresome grudge against NVIDIA.
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Only because nvidia usually never seem to get anything done on time and properly when it comes to release dates and drivers (how many BETA vista drivers are there now??? and how many issues still remain untouched??!)
 
mrk said:
Only because nvidia usually never seem to get anything done on time and properly when it comes to release dates and drivers (how many BETA vista drivers are there now??? and how many issues still remain untouched??!)
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Inqs grudge?

It's more down to the fact they haven't been invited to the NV press days for two consecutive years running ;)

But I agree that the NVIDIA drivers are a bit "all over" at the moment but I've really had no issues at all with them the year I've been with NVIDIA. If I'm totally honest I must have had one BSOD down to NV drivers.

I actually rate NV drivers fairly high and somewhat prefer them to ATi.
 
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