ELSA hints GT206 and GT212

Well, if GT206 is only renamed GT200B then why ELSA slides shows this GPU as a GTX260 successor with lower performance than GTX280?
 
Why no 260GX2 - GTX260's actual load power is almost the same as 4870, and will be slightly lower in 55nm... (but 260gx2 wouldn't be a 4870x2 killer, so maybe it's not that attractive).

Degustar: Considering their recent track record, wouldn't it be more surprising if nvidia DIDN'T renamed their chips? ;) (yeah, I know it's mostly card renaming)

We could also turn it around - when did we see 'gt200b' in a real road map (maybe we did, I just don't remember), or is it just some speculated name, inspired by the g92b?
 
DegustatoR said:
GT200b is in line with other 65->55nm shrinks, GT206 isn't. Nobody gives a f about codenames. Why would they rename GT200 55nm shrink from GT200b to GT206? That's pointless. So i'll hold to my info about GT206 having 256-bit bus and thus not being a simple GT200 shrink to 55nm -)
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Ummm, when has Nvidia ever been straightforward about codenames? Or has everyone already forgotten about the codename soup prior to the release of GT200, which was previously rumored as G100 among others.

So it really wouldn't surprise me if GT200b was renamed GT206. As GT206 sure sounds a lot newer and more impressive than just GT200b.

Then again it also wouldn't surprise me if GT206 was in fact different than that was originally going to be GT200b. Or heck, maybe GT200b is actually GT212? :p

This is Nvidia. They LOVE playing around with codenames, so there's really no way to know.

Regards,
SB
 
In this situation when NVIDIA isn`t able to make a much faster GPU at this moment, should give us lower prices like it did that with GF7800->GF7900. Beacuse NVIDIA doesn`t need much faster GPU at now, but only cheaper.
 
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"6" and "b" look rather similar depending on your font.

GT206 = GT20b

I'm just saying...
 
DegustatoR said:
B3D->Internet->B3D =)
The truth is that nobody knows what this is.
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It's a GT200 without the heatspreader. I (and many other tech press) got the same from Nvidia.

About GT200b "codename change":
Did Nvidia announce or disclose something called GT200b ? Isn't "GT200b" simply used by rumor-tech press to refer to a 55nm GT200 ?
 
How could it be GT200 w/o heatspreader when GT200 die size is 576mm2? As you see those chips from the picture have almost the same die size. GT200@65nm should be visibly bigger than G80.
 
I just measured the die and it's 22x21.5mm. There was a box full of these defective parts at Nvidia and they give it to us as a GT200.
 
Jawed said:
Wouldn't NVidia have had 55nm versions back by then?...

Jawed
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It's unlikely that Nvidia would give unreleased parts to people doing the tourist tour at their HQ but not impossible.
There were dozens if not hundreds of these.
 

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Surely, someone, somewhere on teh internets has ripped the heatspreader off an actual GTX280 and measured the damn thing.

It is funny all this doubt :LOL:

Jawed
 
So why in last few months every source which reviewed GT200 said it`s 576mm2 die size? How could it be possible?

BTW. Did you see at least one review where GT200 was w/o heatspreader?
 
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