NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 and GTX 260 Unleashed @ HotHardware.com

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NVIDIA has officially take the wraps of their latest flagship core GPU

architecture and the GeForce GTX 280 / 260 series of graphics cards. We’ve

got full coverage for you here, with gaming and GPU benchmarks, power

numbers, the works.

 

 

 

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“The high-end 280 card is powered by NVIDIA's 1.4 billion transistor GT200

GPU, produced on TSMC's 65nm process node and is the largest, most complex

chip TSMC has ever manufactured. Beyond just a larger number of stream

processing units, the GT200 also supports three times the number of threads

in flight, as NVIDIA's previous G80, at any given time. It also has a new

scheduler design that is up to 20% more efficient, along with a wider

512-bit memory interface with improved z-cull and compression technology.

Perhaps what's most interesting about this GPU however, are its two

operational states, one as a 3D Graphics processor and another standard

compute mode configuration. NVIDIA's new behemoth chip not only lights up

the gaming benchmarks but also can be specifically reprogrammed for more

efficient general purpose GPU (GPGPU) computing usage models like Folding

and supports atomic read-modify-write operations in memory.”

 

 

 

 

 

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