NVIDIA GTX 280 & GTX 260 Technology Report

[Dashken]

Although many of us have already read about and even seen photos of the two new NVIDIA GTX 280 and GTX 260 graphics cards, today is the day we can finally tell you the whole story about the two cards. Yes, we behaved like gentlemen and we kept to our NDAs! 

Alright, now that everything's in the open now, let's get onto the good stuff - the new NVIDIA GT200 GPU and the two new NVIDIA GTX 280 and NVIDIA GTX 260 graphics cards.

Here's a quote from the article :-

"In any case, the new NVIDIA GT200 has 240 stream processors (or processing cores), which generate about 933 gigaFLOPs of processing power. To achieve that requires a lot of transistors - an astounding total of 1.4 billion transistors. This, plus the fact that it is still built on the 65 nm process technology, inevitably meant the GT200 would be a really large chip (approximately 5x the size of an Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 processor)."

Link : NVIDIA GTX 280 & GTX 260 Technology Report

[Mac Daddy]

Be interesting to see how these perform after the secrecy and of course the spy

[metsamees]

i don't understand the quoted part but it seems it's great card
looking forward for that

[Lacus]

it's out here =.=...a woopy MYR2.4k (malaysia currency) for XFX GTX280 1GB DDR3 O_O!!!

[Max_87]

LMAO! Now they market the stream processor as processing core An assault against Intel?

[Adrian Wong]

Originally Posted by Max_87

LMAO! Now they market the stream processor as processing core An assault against Intel?

Hah! I was wondering when someone would notice THAT too. +rep!

Beginning with the GTX 200 series, NVIDIA started calling their stream processors, processing cores. They even compared the GT200 GPU's 240 "cores" against the Intel Core 2 Quad's 4 cores.