The previous Nvidia Speed king, the 9800 GX2 had 512 mb on each board and was essentially two GPU's in one, and the same is true for ATI's Radeon HD 3870 X2; which adequates to not fully utilizing 1 GB. The older generation 8800 GTX actually performed better than it at high resolutions due to it having 768 MB over the 512x2 MB in the 9800 GX2.
In my opinion the 9800 series offered nothing new but higher framerates, and not enough higher to justify owners of the 8800 series to upgrade. When the 8800 GTX was released in late 2006, it was a significant improvement over the 7800 Series: Direct x 10 support, stream processors, onboard physics acceleration, and shader model 4.0 just to name a few. The GTX 2xx series however, looks like it will have new features in addition to faster framerates.
The GTX 280 has a entirley new architecture: GT200. (9800 series is G92) I hope to be seeing more than 40 FPS in Crysis on Very High . That is what the 9800 GX2 performs at and is simply unacceptable; not much of an upgrade from 30 FPS on the 8800 GTX. The new architecture means we will be seeing a much greater leap in framerate then the 8800-9800 series.
However the negative side, Nvidia doesn't seem interested in supporting direct x 10.1. The new card from ATI, the HD 4800 series, will. I am looking forward to this June when we will hear more about this exciting graphics card, and I hope it will be worth spending $500 to upgrade from my almost 2 year old 8800 GTX.
If you are interested in reading more about the GTX 280, I recommend you search for it on tomshardware, that is where I got most of my information.
2 comments:
hmm, I dont think they will raffle it off at nvision but this def seems interesting
Actually it is very likely these cards will debut at Nvision, tomshardware.com has multiple sources that say they will.
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