Friday, December 12th 2008
GeForce GTX 285 to Lead Single-GPU Pack for NVIDIA
NVIDIA is planning a massive transition of the G200 architecture to the newer 55nm silicon fabrication process. With this, maintaining electrical constraints, the clock speeds of the GPU can be increased to levels that make them highly competitive, while also cutting manufacturing costs. With the newer G200b core running hypothetically cooler, the company is also planning a dual GPU card named the GeForce GTX 295. Its single GPU flagship offering will be called GeForce GTX 285.
While nothing substantially new is on the cards, GeForce GTX 285 has everything that makes it identical to the GTX 280, specifications wise, except for the clock speeds. This is where, NVIDIA gets to take the advantage of the superior electrical and thermal efficiencies of the 55nm core to step up clock speeds and thereby increase performance. While the clock speeds are unknown at this point in time, it is predicted that the new card has a 10% performance increase over the GeForce GTX 280. The card continues to be based on the NVIDIA P891 PCB the current cards use, and hence the GPU gets to use the high-grade power circuitry at its disposal to gain high clock speeds. The power consumption of the new card is pitted at 183W (down from 236W for the GTX 280). The card would need two 6-pin PCI-Express power inputs. The GeForce GTX 285 is slated for January 2009.
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While nothing substantially new is on the cards, GeForce GTX 285 has everything that makes it identical to the GTX 280, specifications wise, except for the clock speeds. This is where, NVIDIA gets to take the advantage of the superior electrical and thermal efficiencies of the 55nm core to step up clock speeds and thereby increase performance. While the clock speeds are unknown at this point in time, it is predicted that the new card has a 10% performance increase over the GeForce GTX 280. The card continues to be based on the NVIDIA P891 PCB the current cards use, and hence the GPU gets to use the high-grade power circuitry at its disposal to gain high clock speeds. The power consumption of the new card is pitted at 183W (down from 236W for the GTX 280). The card would need two 6-pin PCI-Express power inputs. The GeForce GTX 285 is slated for January 2009.
11 Comments on GeForce GTX 285 to Lead Single-GPU Pack for NVIDIA
This thing packs more punch and with lower power usage means cooler and quieter. If they can do that one the "old" production lines, then it is obvious they cease producing the old SKU and only the new.
REMEMBER, AND COMPARISON
ATI is releasing "their" updated SKU on RV770. They are adding more shaders, which possibly will not give "real life" performance improvements, only synthetic shader benchmark improvements. AND their "upgrade" does not have and power requirement or cooling wins like nVidia are achieving here.
I doubt as well these new cards once the cores are on them will be anything less than another green-camp wallet killer.for some reason - I started cracking up when I read that . . .
somehow, it doesn't surprise me.
So, then, is this the big "competitor" to the RV700 series that nVidia has succluded themselves in order to produce?
looks like a 660mhz core 1450mhz shaders card, all that and using 22.5% less power.
im looking forward to seeing if this is backed up by the card apon release. :)