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GT200 GTX280/260 "official specs"

HighlandeR said:
But will be lovely too see ATIs 4870X2, it will proberly edge out the GTX280 and then few weeks if not months later the GTX280-GX2 will arrive and then the whole cycle repeats itself ;)
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That'd be a very short space of time, actually.

7800 GTX release: August 11, 2005
7950 GX2 release: June 5, 2006

(note, the 7900 GX2 I couldn't find a release date for, I know it came before the 7950 GX2, but let's face it, the 7900 GX2 was awful)

8800 GTX release: November 8, 2006
9800 GX2 release: 18 March 2008

2900 XT release: May 14, 2007
3870 X2 release: January 28, 2008

Remembering though that R700 has supposedly been in development alongside the RV770 products. There has been no mention of a GTX280 GX2 or similar, probably because those dies are huge and the production costs of a dual-GPU GTX200 product would be astronomical. Either way, three 8-pin connectors ahoy. :D
 
That is very weird though I would have half expected Nvidias next card would have been called crysisGTX, expected nothing short of miracle performance increase.

Maybe its just the Crytek engine.... it defeated Nvidia :)
 
But with the 55nm supposed to be coming out, tbh who in there right mind is going to spend £600 on a sli setup then have it surpassed by the 55nm a few months down the line.
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Who says it will be better? Wouldn't swap my 8800GTX for a 9800GTX.
 
Strife212 said:
Who says it will be better? Wouldn't swap my 8800GTX for a 9800GTX.
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that is ture what you are saying but we all know the temps will be hopefully lower and power useage too. I think this is the key when you are running a SLI set-up. But yes you are right the 9800gtx was a flop in terms of performance over the older cards.
 
Tute said:
50-80% increase across the board.

*tips hat* Not a bad job nVidia, now lets see where you price this one. :cool:
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Well it's looking £450-£500 which is alright looking back to where the 8800GTX was however may not be good enough versus their own cards and ATI's.

Since SLI is 50-70% boost then two 8800GT's in SLI won't be far behind but will only cost £200.

Great card for 30" screen users and wanting single gpu answer but either Nvidia's own cards in SLI or a 4870 for £200+ less will suffice for 1680 x 1050 users and you would not notice the difference tbh.
 
RavenXXX2 said:
Oh man, one minutes its SLI sux balls and XFIRE is the mutt's nutz, now SLI is the best thing since sliced bread:o i would go with the 200's all the time instead of the GX2, mainly because of the memory interface coupled to the 1GB of ram and no more dodgy SLI profiles to contend with either. New cards from NV are the real deal, you pay for what you gets, look at the spec, its beautiful.:o
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I never said SLi is the best thing since sliced bread, i just made the point, that if you can get the same performance out of the GX2, then why would you not get one over the GTX280 (its got nothing to do with SLi sucking balls if its the same performance), to save what could be quite a bit of cash, and i can't see how thats trolling either, as it makes perfect sense to me.:confused:

If i have the choice of 2x cards that give the same performance, but one of those cards costs quite a lot more than the other, then im sorry, i will get the cheapest.

kylew said:
I am actually disappointed by the benchmarks of the 280, it's looking pretty poor for the card it's meant to be, it was supposed to be quite a bit faster than a GX2 going by the specs and SLi dependence.
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I agree, its very poor, i know its got nothing to do with the shaders, but if all those are second generation, 50% faster (or whatever it was) then how come even those don't even make a slight difference, would it not have been better to stick to the first gen shaders (seen as they've ended up the same performance) , so they could have kept costs down, and been able to release the GT200's at decent prices, instead of having to price them at what could be absurd prices, because they spend millions re-designing the shaders even though they are making what looks like naff all difference, as its the same performance as a GX2.
 
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Well, I suppose If the GTX280 ran Crysis @ 2560x1600 16QAA/16AF at 60 FPS, and cost £600, it would be very cheap I guess, because in reality, people may be paying a lot more than that to get (eventually) that ultimate dream....

~Ant
 
they cant make gt280gx2 as it will use around 400 w eather they have to down it to 256bit and then have gx2 someone said something the same in posts above
 
psychas said:
they cant make gt280gx2 as it will use around 400 w eather they have to down it to 256bit and then have gx2 someone said something the same in posts above
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of course it wouldnt. an entire system with a gtx280 uses 274w. you'd be looking, at a guess, at about 300w under load.
 
I'm really excited for these new cards, you have got to look at the performance they are going to give compared to say a 9800GTX to understand what a great job NV has done, they have gone out to build a fire eating brick crapping monster that will destroy all that strays in its path and they have succeeded, the 280 is the ultimate enthusiast part no doubts about it and i can guarantee ATI wont come close, IMO.
 
RavenXXX2 said:
I'm really excited for these new cards, you have got to look at the performance they are going to give compared to say a 9800GTX to understand what a great job NV has done, they have gone out to build a fire eating brick crapping monster that will destroy all that strays in its path and they have succeeded, the 280 is the ultimate enthusiast part no doubts about it and i can guarantee ATI wont come close, IMO.
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It gets beat of the 3870 X2 in some, its around GX2 performance, and you say thats destroying them all.:confused:
 
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lowrider007 said:
what!, the GTX280 is single gpu card, you can't expect it to destroy what is essentially SLI 8800GT's (GX2's) surely ?.
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I don't expect it to, he said it is destroying everything in its path, it clearly isn't though is it, and last time i looked, the 3870 X2/GX2 were single cards (as everyone kept screaming about when someone said they were not, like me, whenever i said they were not single cards, all hell broke loose), i suppose now though that seen as the GTX 280 is same performance as em, those are all now going to change and say they aint single cards. :p
 
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LoadsaMoney said:
I don't expect it to, he said it is destroying everything in its path, it clearly isn't though is it, and last time i looked, the 3870 X2/GX2 were single cards (as everyone kept screaming about when someone said they were not), i suppose now though that the GTX 280 is same perforamnce as em, those are all going to change now and say they aint single cards.:p
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yeah ok, the destroys everything in it's path comment was a little ott, but the way I see it, GTX280 supersedes 8800/9800's, GTX280 GX2 will eventually supersede the 9800GX2, makes sense to me.
 
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