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DanielGoosen
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You'll wait awhile.
Yup.......-sigh-
scotty777
...doesn't know
You'll wait awhile.
lol, yeah, look at the GTX295, that's hovering around the R5500 mark
.1. GT300 cards will be available in late january/early Feb.
2. GT300 design will be scalable and hopefully last a very long time or at least longer than RV870 can so there are savings there in the long term.
3. TSMC is to blame for Radoen 5000 series shortages
4. GTX295 is fastest graphics card around, 5870 is fastest GPU. with 5970 ATI will have both
5. Nothing dictates that GT300 will cost lots of money or more than any other high end card from NVIDIA when it came out, regardless of complexity, it has to sell at a specific price point for it to be viable to market. G80 was hediously expensive with its 90nm process at 681Million gates yet it sold just fine. GT200 at more than 2x the gate count is physically smaller even though process it 65nm, GT200b die even smaller (package is the same size) at 55nm and significantly so. @ 40nm, even with 3bn gates GT300 will still be smaller than G80. Wafers are still 300mm, so you'll still get more gt300 cores per wafer than you did G80 cores.
So that all means you'll likley not pay more than the usual $599 MSRP for the top end card at release. not much different to GTX280, 8800GTX really.
2. GT300 design will be scalable and hopefully last a very long time or at least longer than RV870 can so there are savings there in the long term.
3. TSMC is to blame for Radoen 5000 series shortages
4. GTX295 is fastest graphics card around, 5870 is fastest GPU. with 5970 ATI will have both
5. Nothing dictates that GT300 will cost lots of money or more than any other high end card from NVIDIA when it came out, regardless of complexity, it has to sell at a specific price point for it to be viable to market. G80 was hediously expensive with its 90nm process at 681Million gates yet it sold just fine. GT200 at more than 2x the gate count is physically smaller even though process it 65nm, GT200b die even smaller (package is the same size) at 55nm and significantly so. @ 40nm, even with 3bn gates GT300 will still be smaller than G80. Wafers are still 300mm, so you'll still get more gt300 cores per wafer than you did G80 cores.
So that all means you'll likley not pay more than the usual $599 MSRP for the top end card at release. not much different to GTX280, 8800GTX really.
The_Techie
Resident Techie
Is that a fact? I find it unlikely as their production will only be ramped in Q1 2010 if the A3 silicon respin is successful (which should only be ascertained just before production starts). Seeing as NVIDIA's fiscal Q1 2010 starts on the 26th of January I doubt that the cards will be available when you claim they will, especially if the A3 silicon requires another respin.
A paper launch with a few review samples might be a possibility (as the Fudzilla article mentions), but availability is doubtful. I'd expect widespread availability in March.
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scotty777
...doesn't know
I agree... We also don't know how tough those things will be to debug.
I'm guessing a few review sites will get the chips that pass, over wise I don't see it happening