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Nvidia GeForce GTX 350 (Q4 2008) GT300-GPU 55nm PCI-E2.0 2GB GDDR5 512-bit

I reckon its a product place holder that shouldn't be visible - surely the details in the product are too specific for it to be made up:confused:

What kind of godly bandwidth is a 512bit interface and GDDR5 going to produce :O
 
well if it is true it will be 280+ 55nm just with ddr5 loads of bandwidth tbh. as always massive price tags at release
 
IIRC those guys just took that info from hardspell or some such place. It was most likely a (somewhat flawed) publicity stunt but this is quite 'old news' now.
 
elpedro said:
What kind of godly bandwidth is a 512bit interface and GDDR5 going to produce :O
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I might be mistaken but don't the ATi top end cards still have 512bit interfaces, and most of those have DDR5.

I'm going on my 2900XT having a 512bit interface here.
 
Darg said:
I might be mistaken but don't the ATi top end cards still have 512bit interfaces, and most of those have DDR5.

I'm going on my 2900XT having a 512bit interface here.
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The new ATI cards are 256-BIT memory interface. You're probably refewrring to the old ringbus architecture which even then wasn't true 512-bit.
 
Darg said:
I might be mistaken but don't the ATi top end cards still have 512bit interfaces, and most of those have DDR5.

I'm going on my 2900XT having a 512bit interface here.
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Nah, AMD dropped back to a 256-bit interface since RV670 (they've kept this up with RV770) because a 512-bit interface isn't very economical to produce - although it could be argued the 4870X2's 2x256-bit interface could effectively provide the bandwidth of a 512-bit interface.

That said bus-width is a pretty crappy performance metric, the 4670 has a 128-bit bus and is about the same performance as a 3850 with a 256-bit bus, which is slightly faster than a 2900 Pro with a 512-bit bus!
 
Lightnix said:
Nah, AMD dropped back to a 256-bit interface since RV670 (they've kept this up with RV770) because a 512-bit interface isn't very economical to produce - although it could be argued the 4870X2's 2x256-bit interface could effectively provide the bandwidth of a 512-bit interface.

That said bus-width is a pretty crappy performance metric, the 4670 has a 128-bit bus and is about the same performance as a 3850 with a 256-bit bus, which is slightly faster than a 2900 Pro with a 512-bit bus!
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Well ye... the size of the bus is nothing on its own, you have to look at the memory speed also...
 
Somethings going on, as OCUK and many other e-retailers seem to be running down their GTX 280 stocks.

I may be wrong, but I they obviously know something.
 
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