News - ELSA roadmap hints at 40nm NVIDIA GeForce GT212 in Q1 '09

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A 55nm successor to NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 260 will arrive this year, and a 45nm successor to the GeForce GTX 280 will land in Q1 '09.

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I was thinking "typical" when I started reading the headline....The day after I finally order my new gfx card, they make an announcement.

Luckily, its for next year :P


And 40nm road-mapped, that sounds quite a jump in a relatively short space of time.

Well the gtx 200 series really was a miserable failure, if they had gone 45nm instead then the 9800x2 would have held off ati's current star line up and q3/4 could have seen a true successor to g80.

Even though 4870 x2 is easily the best performer and does represent a power jump comparable to the 8800gtx, it is still two gpu's on one board and will be affected by scaling issues as well as obscene temps (still want one though;).

A good idea right now is to pick up a cheap 4850 or even 4870/260 and just wait for q1 09 to see what goodies ati and nvidia have in store.

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Originally Posted by Daydreamer

Well the gtx 200 series really was a miserable failure, if they had gone 45nm instead then the 9800x2 would have held off ati's current star line up and q3/4 could have seen a true successor to g80.

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Im not so sure a 9800GX2 would hold off a 4870X2 no matter what the manufacturing proccess was tbh, doesnt the 4870X2 beat down 2 9800GTX+s in SLI by quite a way?

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Originally Posted by Daydreamer

Even though 4870 x2 is easily the best performer and does represent a power jump comparable to the 8800gtx, it is still two gpu's on one board and will be affected by scaling issues as well as obscene temps (still want one though;).

A good idea right now is to pick up a cheap 4850 or even 4870/260 and just wait for q1 09 to see what goodies ati and nvidia have in store.

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Or assuming you jumped on the bandwagon just stick with your 8800GT/GTS, which is what im doing. Games arnt really pushing cards much further than the needs of the old G80/G92 and whilst the boost a 4870 offers is tempting, its not tempting enough for me until i get a bigger monitor.

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Originally Posted by Daydreamer

Well the gtx 200 series really was a miserable failure

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Yup, but really because of the price of entry at launch. Now, not so much an issue (240 quid for the 280). ATI are to thank for that.

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Originally Posted by dangel

Yup, but really because of the price of entry at launch. Now, not so much an issue (240 quid for the 280). ATI are to thank for that.

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Agreed, Its an expensive chip to manufacture though so they completely bit themselfes in the arse with it! not to mention they came back into the press moaning about how false everyones successes and plans are losing them some more credability... silly Nvidia

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Originally Posted by Biscuit

Agreed, Its an expensive chip to manufacture though so they completely bit themselfes in the arse with it! not to mention they came back into the press moaning about how false everyones successes and plans are losing them some more credability... silly Nvidia

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Yup there's that to it - and the fact they just didn't expect ATI to come up with something so good. The only reason I bought the 280 was the current price, coupled with overall faster speeds than the ATI equiv. The 4870x2 is too much money for me, and too much hassle (heat/power/scalability). I'm happy to spend ~250quid every year or so on a graphic card - fact is, i've had the 8800 for 2!

Touch wood we will see a true successor to G80, not including any twin gpu solutions.

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Originally Posted by dangel

fact is, i've had the 8800 for 2!

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Yeah i have had my 8800 a year and 8 or 9 months :D il probs be changing when it gets to 2 years old. By that time who knows what will be on top but im (not so secretly) hoping its ATI