The new Geforce cards are officially launched

NVidia raised the veil on its new Geforce series GTX 2x0. Even if one knows almost nothing about this series, the figures remain impressive. The chip has 1,4 billion transistors where 80% are dedicated to 3D calculations, it functions with GDR on a 512 bits bus with a bandwidth that can reach 142 GB/s. ;
Two models are already announced:
Geforce GTX 260:
- 192 calculating units
- Frequencies of 576/1242 MHz
- 896 MB of DDR3 with 1 GHz on a 448 bits memory bus
Geforce GTX 280:
- 240 calculating units
- Frequencies of 602/1296 MHz
- 1 GB of DDR3 with 1,1 GHz on a 512 bit memory bus
Most interesting is certainly the sales strategy of NVidia. The company does not seek to center its sales pitch on the power of the graphics card, but instead on the supercomputer that it represents. They speak primarily of acceleration using CUDA for video encoding and other calculations.
And obviously, they do not lie since PCiNpact has tested the card. With a customer Folding Home optimized to benefit from the card, they succeeded in making 5000 points per day where a PS3 reaches only 900 and one old Pentium E two cores 600 points.
Difficult to speak of a revolution, in the past we already knew aboutt coprocessors, however this record breaking entry of NVidia into this field, a thing that was inconceivable only one year ago, is likely to to cause a big change in our data-processing environment.
PS: Hardware.fr has put online a complete test of the card. It confirms that it is as powerful as another card equipped with two GeForce 9800 chips. It remain to be seen how ATI/AMD will answer this with its next Radeon 48x0.
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