NVIDIA GT200 Rumours & Speculation Thread

It's not Very High settings, only High with no AA.

 

Apparently Charlie from Inq has GTX 280 benchmarks...

Take with a grain of salt, especially coming from him.

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/06/14/complete-gtx280-scores-here

 

Those aren't too bad. Looks like reviewers will have to crank those CPU speeds. 3Ghz Penryn's don't seem to be cutting it.

 

Nehalem will go nicely with this I think

 

How can he say that the table is true or not if he didn't posted it?
Beyond that, W1zzard said that there's no relevant performance increase coming with 177.34.

 

By the time Nehalem hits the stores, we'll probably have the GT200b.

 

I wonder how soon Nvidia will release the GT200b: Smaller, faster due to higher clocks, less noise.

This time I hope The Inq speaks the truth and it's coming in Sep .

 

Looks like Charlie is using the GT200b as his saviour for bashing the GT200 so bad.

The GT200b is being fast tracked. It will be here ASAP (3 months) barring bad luck.

 

Have you this information from Inq other from somewhere else?

 

Doesn't nVidia ship every chip in the first revision, unlike ATi?

 

If the GT200b is so close, I wonder why there isn't more information available yet.
- 55 nm (likely)?
- Higher clocks (likely, but how much)?
- Performance increase (maybe it will catchup to the R700)?
- Other improvements (I've read about 384 bit memory interface + GDDR5, but I doubt that)?

Oh, and according to Nordic Hardware it's scheduled for November, not September:

http://www.nordichardware.com/news,7815.html

 

Fear of the Osborne Effect.

 

hmm most of the time they don't, they seem to have better results at sending chips out with first revisions though.

 

From Nvidias point of view, yes.

But GT200 related NDA info has been leaked since months, even here.

All I could find about the GT200b:
- According to CJ it's coming (he said so in this thread)
- Different release dates: Inq (Sep), Nordic Hardware (Nov), Fudzilla (2009)

 

I find nill AA/anisotropic low setting crysis benchmarks less than convincing ... I dunno what's going on there but I think it's by far the least relevant of the benchmarks.

 

http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=3117#p28792

Nanoseconds...

 

Another review: http://www.hardware-aktuell.com/viewtest.php?article=51&seite=4
It's german but I'm sure everybody will understand the graph

 

Frankly, i have trouble believing that a "GT200b" would come out so soon.

November ? Maybe (would shoot for March 2009 myself -followed by D12U in November 2009-, but i'm not ruling the other out either).
September ? Somewhat unlikely.

Sure, the core is huge, but, as G80 proved before, it only sold in high margin products, so the production cost wasn't that critical as, say, a G92 in a 8800 GT.
Average power consumption seem to be at G80 levels so far, that's not it either (in fact, being able to idle with G94-levels of electricity is excellent for the GT200 core, methinks).

RV770 is not (and was never meant to be) a threat to the GTX 200 series, but to the current G92/G92b, so that's where i think Nvidia will aim their guns at next.
And G92 will be more than one year old come November, isn't that convenient ?