I couldn't find any other topics about the 300 series and I couldn't find much on the web either so I was wondering if anyone else had information on a possible release date/time period. I know it's gonna be before the year is over but I need to know before I upgrade from my 9800GTX+ to either a GTX 275 or possibly a 300 series GPU.
Unless the 300 series is a lot better/different then the 200, I'd upgrade now. When we get a few 300 cards, they will all be high end, and cost a bunch. Nvidia lately hasn't done a good job of getting the newer cards down into the lower end. Grab a GTX275 now, and then upgrade again to a 300 card 12-15 months from now when/if they finally do ship out a midrange part.
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1GB. It won't have a memory bus that wide if its using GDDR5. You'll probably see the traditional 256bit bus come back. I also doubt you'll see 40nm. New core, new process, new memory, etc? To much could go wrong. You'll see two of the three, not all of them however.
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Don't expect a quantum leap but expect more of the way Nvidia conducts business, re-branding, add a few more shaders, raise/lower GPU cores/memory speeds - it's all towards market segmentation and they want a piece of the action on every level. When the 300 series finally arrive, it'll be the Bugatti Veyron or the Ferrari Enzo of the GPU world BUT in 12 months it becomes a mid range card!
How much better will it be than the GTX 295? A realistic guess for me would be a maximum of 8 percent performance gain (10% is just wishful thinking).
Instead of market hype about the latest and greatest because it's now GDDR 4 or with more SPs, I'd rather see NVidia make all their entry level and mid range cards "cheap dual-GPUs built in SLI on one PCB" by using, for example two old G80 or G84 chips. They'd save huge on the R&D and still come out with very competive products.
This is going to be odd. From what i have heard this thing is going to be like the g200 series, however, unlike the 200 series they can't just re-use old tech as the mid range like they have done recently as while the 8xxx-200 have not really added any new tech to the mix the new part most likely being a dx11ish part.
Are they going to be able to have a complete range entirely made up of g300 parts or is dx11 just for the very high range?
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