Nvidia’s GTX 280 - Price Plunge
July 5, 2008
Launched not more than a few weeks ago, Nvidia’s GTX 280 is said to be receiving a price-drop.
Why? Well, it looks like AMD’s cheap and powerful HD 4800 has them second guessing their dominance. And there’s no better way to gain a few extra enthusiasts than by dropping the price to match the competition.
The card is said to be dipping to as low as $499. Of course, this is pure speculation but it doesn’t seem to be too far fetched.
So, if you’re considering the GTX 280 it may be in your best interest to hold off for a couple of weeks.
Nvidia GeForce 9600GT delayed - No love for Valentines
January 27, 2008
We’re all excited to get our hands on one of Nvidia’s new graphics boards, but it looks like we’ll be waiting a little while longer.
Nvidia is pushing back the the release date of the new 9600GT until the week of February 21st. This is due to a voltage issue that is causing some of them to hang during certain types of operations.
Not a big deal, considering the original launch party was slated for the week of February 14th. Looks like there will be no love from Nvidia on the day that Geeks need it the most.
Nvidia 9800 - Speculation
November 30, 2007
Found on: Gamespot
“G92″ GeForce 9800 GTX specs.
- 65nm process technology at TSMC.
- Over one billion transistors.
- Second Generation Unified Shader Architecture.
- Double precsion support (FP64).
- GPGPU native.
- Over one TeraFLOPS of shader processing power.
- MADD+ADD configuration for the shader untis (2+1 FLOPS=3 FLOPS per ALU)
- Fully Scalar design.
- 512-bit memory interface.
- 1024MB GDDR4 graphics memory.
- DirectX 10.1 support.
- OpenGL 3.0 Support.
- eDRAM die for “FREE 4xAA”.
- built in Audio Chip.
- built in tesselation unit (in the graphics core”
- Improved AA and AF quality levels
Just remember not to believe everything you see on the Internets…
ATI fanboys rejoice….NVidia’s fairy pissed!
April 24, 2007
Today is a day that will surely be etched in the books of ATI fanboys everywhere. ATI’s Radeon HD 2900XT has been benchmarked to the next level by DailyTech. I’m an ATI fanboy and I have been waiting some time for a card like this.
No doubt Nvidia has something up their sleeves to help extinguish the fire but for now the ATI Radeon HD 2900XT is the “king.” How much is thing going to cost?
The numbers/features are quite impressive! The features include DirextX 10, R600 GPU, 512mb GDDR3 which is clocked in at 1.65GHz across an 8 channel 512bit memory interface. The numbers….Oblivion 47.9 FPS compared to 39.5 FPS on the 8800GTS, Call of Duty 2 73.5 FPS compared with 56.7 FPS on the 8800GTS, etc…
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