55nm GT200 Picture

rjc

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A die shot of a 55nm GT200:
http://en.expreview.com/2008/1...5nm-gt200-exposed.html
"The first of new GTX260 graphic cards will hit the market in January next year. The number of its stream processors will maintain as 216, and its memory frequency is unchanged as well. The reference and non-reference versions cards will be on sale at the same time. Thanks to application of new processor and the circuit designed by manufacturers themselves, the price will hopefully keep declining. The GTX260 card is already available at $264 at the lowest right now.

More high-end products based on G200b, including GTX280 and dual-core 260GX2 will also emerge in Jan 2009."


Interesting to note the date on the chip is august this year, which seems quite awhile back.
 

OCGuy

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Shrinks = yawn IMO.


The only good thing out of the shrink will be the 260X2, which will most likely regain the top spot from ATi for a single card, multi GPU solution.

I want the new chips, damnit.
 

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Originally posted by: Ocguy31
Shrinks = yawn IMO.


The only good thing out of the shrink will be the 260X2, which will most likely regain the top spot from ATi for a single card, multi GPU solution.

I want the new chips, damnit.

260X2 might be the new single card king.
However, it still isn't going to a night and day difference based on the performance comparison between 4870 1GB & GTX 260 c216.
 

Borealis7

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well maybe not an X2 version, but it will certainly allow for mroe OC and OC2 versions.
 

Keysplayr

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Originally posted by: toattett
Originally posted by: Ocguy31
Shrinks = yawn IMO.


The only good thing out of the shrink will be the 260X2, which will most likely regain the top spot from ATi for a single card, multi GPU solution.

I want the new chips, damnit.

260X2 might be the new single card king.
However, it still isn't going to a night and day difference based on the performance comparison between 4870 1GB & GTX 260 c216.

It was indicated that the memory clocks will remain the same. Nothing was mentioned about the cores. On 55nm, they should be clocked a bit higher, but that will depend on the thermals I suppose. That, combined with performance improvements with BBII drivers? I'm going to "guess" a 15% performance advantage for the 260GX2 for most games with the exception of a few games where the ATI parts do abnormally well.
 

rjc

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More from expreview:
http://en.expreview.com/2008/1...as-geforce-gtx295.html

"Dual-GPU designed GeForce GTX260 GX2 graphic card will be officially named as GeForce GTX295. Apparently, GeForce GTX295 is coming to regain its dominance of performance which has been grabbed by AMD Radeon HD4870X2. It will utilize two GT200 of 55nm with 216 stream processors, and probably carry on dual PCB design. As of now, the frequency and memory are not known yet."

I guess if the 55nm GTx260 shows in early january, it will be late jan or early feb for the beast above.