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According to Expreview, NVIDIA is still working on a card that would integrate two GT200 processors engraved in 55nm (GT200b/GT206). The official name of the card is the GeForce GTX 295, with two distinct but linked PCBs in a similar design to the 9800GX2. Such a card would have been unimaginable with a GT200 in 65 nm, the finer engraving and improved power consumption of the 55 nm making it a possibility. The card design is reported to be complete and the first samples ought to be out soon. |
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In a counter bid against NVIDIA, which is giving resellers a $30 promo for each GeForce GTX 260 sold before the end of the year, AMD has introduced a similar deal on its Radeon HD 4870. A 512 MB version will be cut by $10, as against $20 for a 1 GB version.
This is likely to bring about a small pricecut in stores, but looks like being counteracted by the rise in the dollar on new stocks.
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According to Intel itself, 25 to 40% of the processor load in games results from Direct 3D and the graphics driver. DirectX 10 allows the driver to multithread this load, but as we say in our news, only NVIDIA is making the most of this.
When contacted about it, AMD confirmed that this is the case, conceding that their current drivers were not fully optimised for triple and quad cores. This situation is likely to change during the first quarter of 2009 with the new Catalyst drivers.
Better late than never then, but in the meantime only NVIDIA allows you to make the most of this DirectX 10 quad core specificity. We have therefore updated our report (in French) on the Core i7 by replaceing the Radeon HD 4870 X2 with a GeForce GTX 280, so as to better demonstrate what can be got out of the different processors tested. |
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