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Nvidia 350 gtx around the corner ?
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And the price will probably be £3000
With a clockspeed of 830MHz on a 55nm process and somehow twice the shaders of the GTX280 with the same surface area, my money's on you need some kind of watercooling for it as standard.
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unless they did what ati did , ie make the SP smallers and faster (and not just using a small nm process) i can't see this being a "real" product
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It's rubbish, the GPU-Z looks photoshopped
The GTX280 design has been out what? 6 months, i'm sure we'll see some tweaks, but a totally new design, doubtful. How long was the 8800 basic design in use for, there were tweaks along the way even a 9 series update but the basic core of the card remained unchanged
The GT200 series is not going to get replaced for at least a year or even longer, it might be refreshed, but a totally new design is highly unlikely to appear 9 months down the line, unless there is something majorly wrong with the current design, you need to get back development costs etc and the longer the cards lifespan the more profit you make
The GT200 series is not going to get replaced for at least a year or even longer, it might be refreshed, but a totally new design is highly unlikely to appear 9 months down the line, unless there is something majorly wrong with the current design, you need to get back development costs etc and the longer the cards lifespan the more profit you make
back to the drawing board for nv then!
Thats badly photoshopped imo - 55nm with 850 core on a single card with 480 shaders and 64 ROPs would be pushing out more like 54gig pixel fillrate and well over 100 texture - and if it was a dual core 55nm card with 850 clock and both cards similiar spec to a 280 then the numbers would still be even higher again.
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It probably is fake but ultimately i don't see why it's not at least feasible.
Sure, it would require a decent mid/high range PSU and the GPU itself would need a good cooling solution but it's certainly not impossible.
The drop to 55nm will have a fairly decent effect in terms of heat and power consumption. Can't see it being massively more power hungry or hot running than the 4870X2.
Think 2900XT to 3870XT.
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Sure, it would require a decent mid/high range PSU and the GPU itself would need a good cooling solution but it's certainly not impossible.
The drop to 55nm will have a fairly decent effect in terms of heat and power consumption. Can't see it being massively more power hungry or hot running than the 4870X2.
Think 2900XT to 3870XT.
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For more rationale:
Take the 4870 - it uses the same 55nm TSMC fabrication process as Nvidia will be using for this, it runs quite hot and draws a similar amount of power to the GTX260 at 750MHz with a 256MM^2 die area.
These rumours imply that Nvidia will be putting 480 shaders (presumably GT200-style architecture) onto a 55nm fabrication process (16% shrink from 65nm), it will have exactly the same die-area as the GT200 core, and it will be running at 830MHz with a 2GHz shader domain. I'm sorry, but it just sounds like wishful thinking.
Take the 4870 - it uses the same 55nm TSMC fabrication process as Nvidia will be using for this, it runs quite hot and draws a similar amount of power to the GTX260 at 750MHz with a 256MM^2 die area.
These rumours imply that Nvidia will be putting 480 shaders (presumably GT200-style architecture) onto a 55nm fabrication process (16% shrink from 65nm), it will have exactly the same die-area as the GT200 core, and it will be running at 830MHz with a 2GHz shader domain. I'm sorry, but it just sounds like wishful thinking.
Actually that is really badly photoshopped...
64 ROPs / 36300 = 567MHz core speed...
Also even on 55nm afaik 2+gig shader domain would still require extreme cooling... your looking at somewhere between 1750 and 1850 on air tops except on the odd really good card that might hit 1900-1950.
64 ROPs / 36300 = 567MHz core speed...
Also even on 55nm afaik 2+gig shader domain would still require extreme cooling... your looking at somewhere between 1750 and 1850 on air tops except on the odd really good card that might hit 1900-1950.
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