When Can We Expect GT212 Release?

My guys's thoughts are that we might start to hear some news about a month after ATI releases the 4890 or whatever their new cards are. News meaning leaked info, you know how it all starts. Then possibly a month later down the line an official announcement from NVIDIA, and since we're in the summer by now our first GT212 launch. So yeah, summer-ish. Unless NVIDIA gets distracted by their legal issues and this naming mess, could be end of 2009.
 
I think there are a lot of 8800gts owners like myself waiting for the release of a new card. The jump to the 260-285 is just not worth it yet for the games that are out.
 
I've read, don't remember where, (but I'm looking) that TSMC didn't make, what are turning out to be, neccessary improvments to the transistor design to enable a proper transition to 40nm. Consequently the process is exceedingly "leaky". (take lots of power, very hot, no improvment over 55nm) This caused nvidia, initially, to delay GT 212. After repeated failures to get the chip (large and based on G200b) working, the timeline was skewing to interfere with GT300 so they scrapped it.
 
All very plausible, I agree, GT300 is probably gonna be next and GT212 will be scrapped as most of the information I've looked for has died out on GT212.
 
eddie500 said:
I think there are a lot of 8800gts owners like myself waiting for the release of a new card. The jump to the 260-285 is just not worth it yet for the games that are out.
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I went ahead and invested in a 4870. I upgraded my 19" wide to a 22" and the 320mb just wasn't cutting it anymore. Even on World of Warcraft, I had to turn down most of the settings to medium and completely shut off shadows just to get +35fps in 25 mans.
 
eddie500 said:
I think there are a lot of 8800gts owners like myself waiting for the release of a new card. The jump to the 260-285 is just not worth it yet for the games that are out.
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I own 2 of the G92 version. And while the 260/280/285s are nice, I'm struggling to find a need to upgrade them. At this rate I'm probably going to be waiting till the GT300 is out unless some developers start making some quality games with demanding graphics. I just havn't had any desire to play a lot of the crap that is out there now.
 
John Vuong said:
There are rumours that NVIDIA might not launch this GT212 and skip to GT300 instead.
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Thats what is needed, no rebadge of old GPU. Also if rumor of 4890 aka 4870OC/SuperOC are true it is no need for a tuned up GT200 either.
I want 3 of a SingleGPU GT300 card with 2GB+ DDR5 and 512 memoryinterface next time to keep me happy for another year.
 
Just bring on the GTX-380 on schedule like this June, that would make it officially one year after the GTX-280 and perfect time for the 380 to come out. The GTX-280 was about 75% faster than 8800GTX it's replacement.

So if nVidia is still on schedule we should see a GTX-380 this June and be approx 75% faster than GTX-280, anything less than that and not on time will blow for them waiting for no reason.
 
Zorachus said:
Just bring on the GTX-380 on schedule like this June, that would make it officially one year after the GTX-280 and perfect time for the 380 to come out. The GTX-280 was about 75% faster than 8800GTX it's replacement.

So if nVidia is still on schedule we should see a GTX-380 this June and be approx 75% faster than GTX-280, anything less than that and not on time will blow for them waiting for no reason.
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it's most likely going to be Q4 in time for christmas. I think nvidia is using the time between now and then to pump out all the shitty midrange "200" series cards. Also gt212 will be skipped most likely.
 
Zorachus said:
So if nVidia is still on schedule we should see a GTX-380 this June and be approx 75% faster than GTX-280, anything less than that and not on time will blow for them waiting for no reason.
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Considering how horribly inefficient GT200 is in terms of perf/mm^2, their 40nm effort had better be far north of a 75% improvement if they don't want AMD to blow them away.
 
I hope you all know that the 8xxx/9xxx/2xx products are pretty much all the same, except for die size and clock speeds.

I haven't seen anything yet about the 3xx products, if they are just tweaked up 2xx's or an entirely new GPU core.

I don't know if anyone here trusts The Inquirer or not, but according this this article "Nvidia 270, 290 and GX2 roll out in November" ( http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/302/1028302/nvidia-270-290-gx2-roll ), it won't be this year for anything really entirely new. Just tweaked up 2xx's.


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