GT200 to go 55nm silently? Non-ref card hits early 09
Reliable source shows that GTX200 Series with 55nm CPU will be still branded as GeForce260/280, instead of GTX270/290 as rumor told. They will hit the market in December to take the place of present storage.
On the other side, NVIDIA recently authorizes its partners to design non-reference GeForce GTX200 card on their own, which will help reduce price and improve marketing share. Relative products will be shown at the beginning of 2009 if everything goes well.
It seems NVIDIA has been prepared to update its GPU line’s processing. Probably it’s show time for mysterious 260GX2 now.
November 19th, 2008 at 12:41 am
Hmm, if indeed they won’t launch these new babies as a new generation, can we assume that the reference clock won’t be changed ? It will go the way 9600 GT 55 nm went recently, no increased reference clock, but TDP can be reduced.
November 20th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Meanwhile ATI, which is much farther ahead in technology will be using 45nm and 40nm gpu’s in early 09. And maybe 32nm by the end of 09.