Nvidia's GeForce GTX 275 Listed, Dated, Removed
Looks like Nvidia's upcoming GeForce GTX 275 is peeking out of its cage, gracing online retail shops... or at least, that was originally the case.
There's nothing like a good, healthy fight to drive business sales, especially when it involves Nvidia and Intel, and Nvidia and AMD. While the former aspect is more of a legal matter, Nvidia and AMD are looking to cash in on consumer desire by releasing two new cards next month: Nvidia's GeForce GTX 275 and ATI's Radeon HD 4890. Naturally, when a company does something to keep one step ahead, the competitor is certainly going to call them out and maybe even raise the ante. Now it looks as if Nvidia is doing just that by pushing up the GTX 275 street date.
According to Expreview, Nvidia will release the GeForce GTX 275 on April 2nd. Naturally, without some kind of source, such a date would be chalked up as simply rumor. However, that may not be the case, as DollarShops actually had the card listed for around $327 USD (€249) and promised to have the card in stock by April 4. Manufactured by Sparkle, the GeForce GTX 275 offers the 55nm GT200 GPU clocking in at 633 MHz and a 1164 MHz memory clock, 896 MB of DDR3 (448-bit), 240 stream processors, 2 DVI outputs and HDCP. However, now the card is gone, ripped from the online retail shop altogether.
To stay competitive however, it would make sense that Nvidia release the card this week. As reported a few weeks ago, the Radeon HD 4890 will give the GeForce GTX 275 a run for its money. With a core clock of 850 MHz and 1 GB of GDDR5 memory, the meatier AMD offering will more than likely be the dominant card if the price isn't set too high. Originally we said that the price would be $249 in the US, and €249 in Europe, however if the Euros-to-USD conversion is correct (1.00 Euro = 1.31 U.S. Dollars), the North American version should cost $327 instead.
Hopefully the GeForce GTX 275 will reappear online with a solid price tag and ship date within the next few days.
BUT - its far from certain. Here's hoping.
Let's face it they've done a lot of renaming lately, however if it's actually a new card I hope it's competitive on both price and performance to ATis new card. After all a little competition rarely hurts the consumer
Agreed. I'm waiting on the upcoming battle in terms of price to see if I should pick up the GTX 260 Core 216 or get GTX 275 since I don't have the budget for a GTX 280 or 285.
Is this your first experience with retail across countries Kevin? Not that I would be surprised.
Those of us in the states rarely get charged at the same price as those in Europe. Infact, most of the time we get a 1:1, USD:EURO price. $249 in the US, and €249 in Europe makes sense (based on previous pricing).
Realistically, the GTX 275 could be just as expensive as the 4890, but odds are the 275 will be more and not quite outperform the 4890. Lets just wait for the benchmarks to make the decision.
Similar boat. I want to SLI for a new i7 Rig. Hoping the 275 comes down low enough that I can use them over the 55nm 260, I hate going with pipeline reduced cards. Esp since I'd like to try some CUDA offload programing.
http://www.coolmod.com/product/7320/0/0/1/Sapphire-4890-GDDR5-1024MB-DVI-ITVO-Full-HDMI-.htm
Oh, and it's a spanish site, sry. Anyways, it IS cheaper than the 275. It's only 237.95€
It wouldn't be a renamed card. They already renamed the highest end card from the last generation, the 9800 GTX+ as the GTS 250