Tech Gadget Review

Surprise! NVIDIA officially released its new GeForce 280 GTX 260 and GTX graphics cards. The GTX 280, NVIDIA flagship model, it is 50% higher than in 9800 GX2 last year, when, in his Overclocked AMP! Edition, and is loaded with about twice as many transistors as in 9800. New single-chip processor packs some serious number-crunching, such as 142 GB / s memory bandwidth, 512-bit memory interface. Other specifications final appearance for 1GB GDDR3, two Dual link DVI connectors and, of course, a Overclocked chipset. In short, this is the fastest graphics card can be obtained. Do not even go nuts, though - GTX280 with 1GB of RAM, you can run a cool 649 dollars. At the lower end of GTX 260, 896MB is more palatable 399 dollars. GTX280 availability begins tomorrow, and GTX 260s will go to the streets on June 26. And at the end put to rest this joke: Yes, I will run Crysis.

For several reasons we are not mixed opinions about the video card manufacturers to make cards that use two graphics chips on a single motherboard. To begin with, they tend to be expensive, which is understandable given the additional hardware, but still deplorable. Then the driver / game support that may be, if not up to scratch, means some games simply do not work or do not see any benefit from the second chip. Finally, the fact is that even if everything is working normally, productivity will increase from the second chip may be limited. It is for these reasons ATI last attempt to get our top recommendations in the form of video cards HD 3870X2, falls just short of the mark, receiving good but not quite there, 8 / 10.

So when nVidia launched its competing dual-chip card, 9800 GX2, we had the same sinking feeling in our bellies. However, the 9800 GX2 whether to combine two very fast cards in a package that, unlike conventional configurations SLI, does not require SLI motherboard and, at least theoretically, can be quickly unified graphics card on the planet.

NVIDIA expects to up earlier in the notebook graphics processor with its new GeForce 9M series. NVIDIA is banking on both energy and efficiency to defeat OEMs and end-users new graphics processor.

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In connection with the inevitable increase in energy consumption of high-end video card, customers are forced to double-check their requirements on power units.  NVIDIA companies have already developed their recommendations on the characteristics of power systems used in a system with a series of graphics cards geForce GTX 2xx.

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June 7th, 2008 | Posted in Graphics Card | No Comments