GeForce GTX350 : Born to lead

[layzee]

After the smash-mouth GTX280, NVidia are ready to release another monster from their stable. The successor to the mighty GTX280 will probably be the GTX350. The new card will be based on a 55-nm manufacturing process and for the first time NVidia will make the move to GDDR5 memory instead of GDDR3 which they have used for quite some time now. These are some of the possible specifications of the new "King Of The Ring" :-

Core or GPU Name : GT300
Manufacturing Process : 55-nm
Die Area : 576 sq.mm
Memory Controller : 512 bit GDDR5
Memory : 2GB GDDR5
No. Of Stream Processors : 480
No. Of Grating Operation Units : 64
Memory Bandwidth : 216 GBps
Core Clock : 830MHz
Shader Clock : 2075 MHz
Memory Clock : 3360MHz (effective)
Pixel Fill Rate : 36.3G pixels/s
Texture Fill Rate : 84.4Gpixels/s
Platforms Supported : DirectX 10 (No DX 10.1 Support Yet)

NVidia's biggest rival ATI (or AMD) is also set to release a step up from the RV770 named the RV870. The new RV870 is going to be based on either a 40-nm or 45-nm process and is going to have 960 stream processors with 256-bit GDDR5 memory.

[comp@ddict]

Originally Posted by layzee

After the smash-mouth GTX280, NVidia are ready to release another monster from their stable. The successor to the mighty GTX280 will probably be the GTX350. The new card will be based on a 55-nm manufacturing process and for the first time NVidia will make the move to GDDR5 memory instead of GDDR3 which they have used for quite some time now. These are some of the possible specifications of the new "King Of The Ring" :-

Core or GPU Name : GT300
Manufacturing Process : 55-nm
Die Area : 576 sq.mm
Memory Controller : 512 bit GDDR5-Yesssss
Memory : 2GB GDDR5-Too much to handle
No. Of Stream Processors : 480-OMG, double of GTX 2x0s
No. Of Grating Operation Units : 64
Memory Bandwidth : 216 GBps
Core Clock : 830MHz-Faster than 9800GTX+(which had highest clocks)
Shader Clock : 2075 MHz-That's a new high, AMD cards lagging in shader clocks
Memory Clock : 3360MHz (effective)
Pixel Fill Rate : 36.3G pixels/s
Texture Fill Rate : 84.4Gpixels/s
Platforms Supported : DirectX 10 (No DX 10.1 Support Yet)-No DX10.1 game yet..

NVidia's biggest rival ATI (or AMD) is also set to release a step up from the RV770 named the RV870. The new RV870 is going to be based on either a 40-nm or 45-nm process and is going to have 960 stream processors with 256-bit GDDR5 memory.

When's the release date, any idea? i mean for both? Cause RV870 is surely gonna take some time.

And what's gonna be the approx. price of this new NVIDIA monster BTW?

[hellgate]

yipee.hope these monsters get released by the time Nehalem hits the shelves.selling off my current rig next week.so planning to get one of these babies in my new Core i7 rig.

[comp@ddict]

U've got a monster rig already, and selling it off???(Sheesh, filthy rich)

[layzee]

Originally Posted by comp@ddict

When's the release date, any idea? i mean for both? Cause RV870 is surely gonna take some time.

And what's gonna be the approx. price of this new NVIDIA monster BTW?

No idea man. But ATI is about to get thrashed big time. I feel that even a dual-GPU RV870 solution won't stand a chance against the mighty GTX350.

[comp@ddict]

U can't say soo early. Although it luks like GTX350=2xGTX280 + performance

But, RV870 has just 160SPs more than RV770, dunno what AMD is gonna do to tackle this.