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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 Compute Video Card

Submitted by: Das Capitolin @ 12:11 PM | Monday, June 16, 2008 | (url: http://benchmarkr...)

Hot on the heels of a rapid-succession GeForce 9800 GX2 and GeForce 9800 GTX launch only two short months ago, NVIDIA now officially unveils the GeForce GTX 280 and GTX 260 video cards. Using the fastest and most-powerful graphics processor NVIDIA has ever developed, both new GeForce products are constructed from a freshly-minted GT200 graphics processor. Both the GTX 280 and GTX 260 products position themselves at the very highest segment of the GeForce product line. NVIDIA Estimates that the GeForce GTX 280 will be introduced at $649, while the similarly powerful GeForce GTX 260 will enter the $399 price point. If the competition ever had a very good reason to be concerned with their future, it would be right now.


06-16-08 - 12:47 PM
SHITS INTENSE
06-16-08 - 01:55 PM
damn $650? My system didnt even cost that much.
06-16-08 - 07:33 PM
i am going to buy that $650 card as soon as it comes out.

holy shit.
06-17-08 - 03:51 PM
Thats a lot of power, just bought a new Geforce too, oh well.
06-17-08 - 04:30 PM
Wow. I want one, I really do.
06-18-08 - 03:32 AM
Originally posted by Lamb  
SHITS INTENSE

Torrentialy intense.
Originally posted by Lamb  
Torrential bandwidth: Due to their high data content, visual computing applications become bandwidth starved on the CPU. With eight on-die memory controllers, the GeForce 280 GTX can access 141GB of data per second, greatly accelerating HD video transcoding, physics and image processing applications.
06-18-08 - 10:33 AM
It'll be another 3-5 years before they really stress the 8x series of gf cards prbly :|
06-18-08 - 07:19 PM
Ouch. ATi/AMD's new 4850 gives 72% of the performance of the GTX for 1/3rd the price. Nvidia dropped the ball.
06-18-08 - 11:30 PM
This chipset is a flunk.
The GX2 quite easily keeps pace and is routinely outdone by only a mere 5 fps, and at its most expensive, is $100 less.
And the standard GX2s are $200 less. 60% of the price point for 95% of the performance.

Big time ball dropping.
06-19-08 - 02:55 PM
Ha, the $650 nVidia Goliath is having problems keeping up with a pair of AMD's $200 HD4850s in crossfire. Major ball dropping indeed.
06-20-08 - 01:06 PM
Yeah. Sort of like that time my voice started getting lower and I started liking girls. My balls were dropping with alacrity.
06-23-08 - 03:35 AM
ATI's 4870 looks like it might be pretty beastly... especially for the cost...
06-23-08 - 06:32 PM
I like the idea of only spending $400 on 2xati cards and out performing this one.
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