NVIDIA's 1.4 Billion Transistor GPU: GT200 Arrives as the GeForce GTX 280 & 260

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• Spoelie - Monday, June 16, 2008 - link

  On first page alone:
  *Use of the acronym TPC but no clue what it stands for
  *999 * 2 != 1198

• Spoelie - Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - link

  page 3:
  "An Increase in Rasertization Throughput" -t

• knitecrow - Monday, June 16, 2008 - link

  I am dying to find out what AMD is bringing to the table its new cards i.e. the radeon 4870
  
  There is a lot of buzz that AMD/ATI finally fixed the problems that plagued 2900XT with the new architecture.
  
  

• JWalk - Monday, June 16, 2008 - link

  The new ATI cards should be very nice performance for the money, but they aren't going to be competitors for these new GTX-200 series cards.
  
  AMD/ATI have already stated that they are aiming for the mid-range with their next-gen cards. I expect the new 4850 to perform between the G92 8800 GTS and 8800 GTX. And the 4870 will probably be in the 8800 GTX to 9800 GTX range. Maybe a bit faster. But the big draw for these cards will be the pricing. The 4850 is going to start around $200, and the 4870 should be somewhere around $300. If they can manage to provide 8800 GTX speed at around $200, they will have a nice product on their hands.
  
  Time will tell. :)

• FITCamaro - Monday, June 16, 2008 - link

  Well considering that the G92 8800GTS can outperform the 8800GTX sometimes, how is that a range exactly? And the 9800GTX is nothing more than a G92 8800GTS as well.

• AmbroseAthan - Monday, June 16, 2008 - link

  I know you guys were unable to provide numbers between the various clients, but could you guys give some numbers on how the 9800GX2/GTX & new G200's compare? They should all be running the same client if I understand correctly.

• DerekWilson - Monday, June 16, 2008 - link

  yes, G80 and GT200 will be comparable.
  
  but the beta client we had only ran on GT200 (177 series nvidia driver).

• leexgx - Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - link

  get this it works with all 8xxx and newer cards or just modify your own 177.35 driver so it works you get alot more PPD as well
  
  http://rapidshare.com/files/123083450/177.35_gefor...">http://rapidshare.com/files/123083450/177.35_gefor...

• darkryft - Monday, June 16, 2008 - link

  While I don't wish to simply another person who complains on the Internet, I guess there's just no way to get around the fact that I am utterly NOT impressed with this product, provided Anandtech has given an accurate review.
  
  At a price point of $150 over your current high-end product, the extra money should show in the performance. From what Anandtech has shown us, this is not the case. Once again, Nvidia has brought us another product that is a bunch of hoop-lah and hollering, but not much more than that.
  
  In my opinion, for $650, I want to see some f-ing God-like performance. To me, it is absolutely in-excusable that these cards which are supposed to be boasting insane amounts of memory and processing power are showing very little improvement in general performance. I want to see something that can stomp the living crap out of my 8800GTX. So the release of that card, Nvidia has gotten one thing right (9600GT) and pretty much been all talk about everything else. So far, the GTX 280 is more of the same.

• Regs - Monday, June 16, 2008 - link

  They just keep making these cards bigger and bigger. More transistors, more heat, more juice. All for performance. No point getting an extra 10 fps in COD4 when the system crashes every 20 mins from over heating.