NVIDIA GT200 Rumours & Speculation Thread

G92b isn't current is it?

Jawed

 

R700 -> GTX200
FV770 -> G92/G92b

Anyway HD 4870 looks to close from GTX260. Good competition here.

 

Is Nvidia gonna make a 55nm 128SP GPU based on G200 core and technology? I'd like a card with the more powerful SP units and geometry shading performance with the low idle power consumption.

 

Ok, near current. How's that ?

 

Radeon HD 3870x2 conquered GTX 260 in 3DMARK06, Bioshock and Crysis

We PCZILLA were informed that, AMD currently the most powerful flagship product Radeon Radeon HD 3870x2 conquered GTX 260 in 3DMARK06, Bioshock and Crysis.

Radeon HD 3870x2 conquered GTX 260 in Bioshock 1920 x1200 1xAA 1xAF, 2560x1600 1xAA 1xAF, 1920x1200 4xAA 2560x1600 4xAA. Radeon HD 3870x2 and GeForce GTX 280 conquered each other in Bioshock test.

In addition, Radeon HD 3870x2 conquered both GTX 260 and GTX 280 in 3 DMark 06 1280x1024, 1600x1200 4xAA 16 xAF test, beat GTX 260 and GTX 280. In The Elder Scrolls 4 test, it conquered GTX 260 in 1920 x1200, 2560x1600, lost only small gap from GTX 280. In "Crysis" test, it conquered GTX 260 in 2560 x1600 High test, lost only small gap from GTX 280.In 1600 x1200 4xAA VeryHigh and 1920 x1200 4xAA VeryHigh tests, Radeon HD 3870x2 beat GTX 260.

source
http://www.pczilla.net/en/post/44.html

 

Is he really talking about the GT200b? Why not the R700?

 

Any idea how soon? Same week as RV770? Will it be a "silent" launch, replacing G92 without any fuss?

Jawed

 

In the mobile space ? Definitively silent, and relatively quickly.
But the desktop market is another story. It could go either way, depends mostly on marketing considerations (as i don't think it will be on that market for long like the 65nm G92 did before it) and also on... RV770 price structure and evolution, of course.
Competition is a beautiful thing.

 

When's it coming though?

 

Desktop or mobile ?

 

Charlie has posted a number of benchmarks.

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

 

I did a rough average through excel of the performance increases between the two cards, normalizing data by eliminating the two best and the two worse variations.
The result: GTX280 vs 9800GTX OC -> +55.06%.

 

doesnt look like its gonna be faster than 2 8800 GTX in SLI. nvidia fails again.

 

Why ? Did they "fail" recently ?
Can't you also do SLI with two or three GTX 280's as well ?

 

Could you qualify their failure?

 

Add the price for a nuclear generator station, as well (236W@full x 2 or 3).

 

Well I'm just throwing this out there (doesn't mean I agree with it), some have considered the 8800 Ultra a failure/disappointment.

 

Would his name be Hector Ruiz?

 

Only at ultra high resolutions and/or very high levels of AA and/or with current and up-and-coming DX10 games will the GTX 280 really start to stretch it's legs against 9800 GTX.

So if you just do a simple average at all of those different resolutions, it really doesn't give a good sense of how much faster GTX 280 really is when compared to 9800 GTX with both pushed to their limits.

The GTX 280 is just way way faster at very high resolutions with high levels of AA, most of the time 2x or greater performance improvement. And considering that it has relatively low idle power consumption given it's very high performance, it's a big success in my opinion.

Oh, and the two "best" results in favor of GTX 280 should not be completely disregarded. Those are no fluke, this card has much more horsepower than 9800 GTX when it comes to powering through high resolutions with high levels of AA.