First Images of NVIDIA's 55nm GT200b GPU Emerge

Tuesday, December 2 2008

Thanks to our friends over at Expreview, we can post what's reported as the first photo of NVIDIA's 55nm GT200b graphics core. According to the information, all NVIDIA cores marked with the G200-103-B2 nomenclature are made using NVIDIA's 55nm processing technology. First cards to ship with the revised GPU will be GeForce GTX 260 series. The video cards will hit the market in January next year, with unchanged memory (896MB) and stream processor specs (216sp). Non-reference versions of the cards as well as reported GT200b models of GeForce GTX 280 and dual-core GeForce GTX 260GX2 will go on sale at the same time, too. Hopefully, the installment of the new core will bring prices of the NVIDIA cards further down.

Source: Expreview

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User comments

by DrunkenMafia (December 2nd - 7:40 AM) - Reply

GTX 260X2 would be a pretty quick card :eek:

God i hope the prices come down, parts prices are killing me atm. Especially in Aussie.

by Binge (December 2nd - 7:41 AM) - Reply

BWAHAHAHAHA I knew the 55nm revision in Dec was too good to be true. Fudzilla you LOSE GOOD DAY SIR~ :roll:

by xubidoo (December 2nd - 7:49 AM) - Reply

Typical they announce new/better versions when ive just bought 1 :)

by kyle2020 (December 2nd - 10:02 AM) - Reply

same here haha :laugh:

by lemonadesoda (December 2nd - 11:12 AM) - Reply

News of the GT206 (GT200b) has been out for some time... BUT... it was thought the release would be BEFORE Christmas, sometime early to mid December. I guess they are holding back the GPU due to the older GTX260 still sitting on shelves. (Either in ready to plug in cards, or as binned chips). Gotta use the old ones up. They are too expensive to write-off.

DAMN. No Xmas GTX260 for me then. Need to wait until Jan. :rolleyes: Shame, I wanted to build a new machine in the holidays.

by [I.R.A]_FBi (December 2nd - 1:06 PM) - Reply

stream processors mally

by zithe (December 2nd - 1:14 PM) - Reply

by: malware
Non-reference versions of the cards as well as reported GT200b models of GeForce GTX 280 and dual-core GeForce GTX 260GX2 will go on sale at the same time, too. ]

Non-Reference? Another 4850x2, possibly.

by PVTCaboose1337 (December 2nd - 1:19 PM) - Reply

As long as the price goes down I won't complain.

by Tatty_One (December 2nd - 1:30 PM) - Reply

GTX260GX2 = NVidia crown yet again most likely, sems like about February/March might be a good time to but an existing GTX260 hopefully.

by zithe (December 2nd - 1:41 PM) - Reply

by: Tatty_One
GTX260GX2 = NVidia crown yet again most likely, sems like about February/March might be a good time to but an existing GTX260 hopefully.

Maybe for a little bit. ATI still has time. XD

by Tatty_One (December 2nd - 1:46 PM) - Reply

by: zithe
Maybe for a little bit. ATI still has time. XD

Good, cause time is money and thats one thing ATi hasent got! :p

by Octavean (December 2nd - 1:54 PM) - Reply

Well if this were to mean even cheaper older stock GTX260 192SP cards then I'm glad to hear it. At about ~$180 these cards aren't bad IMO but I would like to see them go lower. If prices don't go much lower I'd just wait for GTX300 DX11 cards and pay through the nose for that ;)

by TooFast (December 2nd - 2:23 PM) - Reply

lol.......

by newtekie1 (December 2nd - 2:38 PM) - Reply

Damn, I was hoping to get a 55nm GTX260 before X-mas. Maybe I'll just buy a normal GTX260 from eVGA and step up when the new ones come out.

by ThomasDM (December 2nd - 2:56 PM) - Reply

That's photoshopped. The colors of the text don't match.

by newtekie1 (December 2nd - 3:22 PM) - Reply

Yeah, I noticed that too...But maybe the heatspreader was made before hand, and the GPU code stamped on at a later date.

by Steevo (December 2nd - 3:22 PM) - Reply

Is it me or deos Intel and Nvidia seem to be falling on AMD's heels these days on things.

Nvidia with a B2 and the new Intel chip has a TLB issue? I would fire the PR people. :D

by ShadowFold (December 2nd - 3:38 PM) - Reply

What took them so damn long? And why not just make the launch ones 55nm. Its not exactly brand new..

by Exavier (December 2nd - 3:47 PM) - Reply

sounds good for later customer builds..I'm not adverse to using either company, just what's required for the best price.
additionally, sounds like I'm good with my 4870X2 for a long while yet then ;) still stomps everything I'd ever want it to lol

by EastCoasthandle (December 2nd - 4:05 PM) - Reply

by: ThomasDM
That's photoshopped. The colors of the text don't match.

I was thinking the same thing as the lettering isn't typical from nvidia. Also, this 55nm part has been (rumored) to launched in Oct., Nov., Dec. and now next year. IMO, that's extremely close to the new 40nm part which we will see by Q2 2009. At this point it really doesn't make much sense :shadedshu.

by btarunr (December 2nd - 4:17 PM) - Reply

Well considering no 65nm G200 based card in retail, comes with that aluminum brace around the GPU...unless they morphed what's inside that brace (from G80), this looks legit.

by Darkrealms (December 2nd - 4:41 PM) - Reply

If its not true o'well. If it is true SLI GTX260s for cheap ; ) WOOT!

I could see them releasing a GTX260GX2 just to take the crown again, but if its true 40nm will be out H2 2009 I can't see them releasing the full G200 linup again in 55nm.
Unless they've been building them and suddenly figured out their 40nm would be easier/cheaper by a lot. And now they have stock.

by stasdm (December 2nd - 6:04 PM) - Reply

GTX260GX2 will be much slower than 2 x GTX260

I have not seen nVIDIA board that could work at true PCIe v.2 clock. And nVIDIA "v.2" frequency would not be enough.

by newtekie1 (December 2nd - 6:10 PM) - Reply

by: ShadowFold
What took them so damn long? And why not just make the launch ones 55nm. Its not exactly brand new..

It was for nVidia when the GTX260's launched.

It has probably taken so long because 55nm production has been limitted, and nVidia focussed on the G92 cores with 55nm first, to get costs down on their mid-range cards because they knew the G92 cards would be filling the mid-range segment. So all their 55nm production resources were focussed on G92 until now.

by WarEagleAU (December 2nd - 11:35 PM) - Reply

Whats this about Intel having a TLB on their Core i7's?

About time Nvidia come out with a new GX2 part. I like the 260 going that route. Id imagine ATI will have their refresh done by then to compete.

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