14 DAY TRIAL // It appears that the Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA is preparing to launch a new graphics card, as part of the GT200-series, which will be meant to compete with an upcoming product from AMD's graphics subsidiary, ATI. Dubbed GeForce GTX 275, the G200b-based graphics card will have to go up against the yet-unreleased Radeon HD 4890, a factory-overclocked version of the ATI's R770 GPU. The new GeForce card should become available in early April, which could also mean that AMD could soon release the RV790-based Radeon card.
Details on the new GeForce card surface on hardware-infos.com, which listed a full specification list of the GTX 275, which is placed between GTX 260 and GTX 285, in terms of performance. The new card shares a number of specifications with the GTX 260 and GTX 285, providing the same core and shader clock frequencies as the 55nm GTX 285, but coming with the same memory size and interface as the GTX 260. This will enable it to deliver a memory bandwidth of 124 GB/s, pixel fill rate will be at 18,1 GP/s while the texel fill rate will be slightly higher than that of the GTX 260, at 46,7 GT/s.
The GeForce GTX 275 would be able to provide a performance boost of about 15% over the GTX 260. Price-wise, the GTX 275 is expected to be placed in the $250-$300 market segment, where AMD will likely place its new card. Basically, the GTX 275 could just be a 55nm-based GTX 260, with better performance and likely better TDP.
In related news, NVIDIA has recently slashed the price of its GeForce GTX 260 core 216 cards to about $200, which means that the GTX 275 will have to fill in the empty space left by the GTX 260.