Nvidia Rolls Out 236 Watt Graphics Card Design

[Guest]

Santa Clara (CA) - Nvidia today unveiled its GT200 graphics chip, now integrated into the GTX260 and GTX280 graphics cards.

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[mr roboto]

Sure Nvidia can have some more of my money. Hopefully in three more months they will come out with something newer and I can give them some more. I have an idea.. The Nvidia GTX320GX2GTS-512 but to throw people for a loop we'll give it 947MB of RAM and a 652 Bit memory interface.

At this rate the world will be polluted with Nvidia graphics cards like in the late 90's when AOL polluted the land with their trial CD's.

 

[liemfukliang]

Why DX 10? Not DX 11?

 

[virtualban]

To Mr. Roboto, (and especially to Mr. Eno! A friend of mine who thinks like Mr. Roboto here):
If you don't want more power, you don't pay them more money and you don't get your power.
Did anyone put a gun to your head and said you will buy the newcomer? If not, think of it like this: IT'S PROGRESS FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE!! Something that makes everything else cheaper. So basically it is a jump in quality. Something good for everybody. But wait, maybe you just don't want it to be good for everybody. You want to be above everybody else. Or maybe you're just addicted to "more power, more speed" and the only way to stop you from "wasting" your money, is for progress to stop.

 

[mr roboto]

It's barely progress. 20% increments in progress for $600? Releasing cards every 3 months with driver releases that come in at about the same. I laugh that people think Nvidia's drivers are going to save this pig of a card.

For SLI you need a minimum of a 1200w PSU? Only to get a 20% improvement. I'm sorry that you bought into what Nvidia's selling. Don't be mad at me that you bought a 9800GTX or a GX2 that they're discontinuing already.
If only Nvidia could make solid improvements without going backwards. They want the performance crown so bad that you end up with a card like this. Yet no one else is even challenging them. If ATI was 1 upping them every release than I could understand. They need to look at the bigger picture as in power, speed, Value, longevity. How about that one? Longevity! My 8800GTX has lasted this long only because of the latest missteps by Nvidia. This new card is just another 8800 refresh with a 512 Bit bus and slightly more RAM. Nothing else.

 

[Zeroman]

Sure, the specs look nice and the benchies i've seen are good too. BUT, 3-way SLI using (at least) 236 watts EACH (not yet OC'd) and putting up to 80c or more at load with stock cooler (not to mention that if you're gonna buy this, you would most probably have an OC'd high end system), how are you gonna power these? Good thing for the 260gtx, it can be OC'd to reach similar performance of the 280gtx.

 

[V3NOM]

err this is the successor of the G92 and G94 not G80...