http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/ Engadget Comments for NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 280 gets cracked open and reviewed http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/Jun 16th 2008 4:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/Jun 16th 2008 4:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/Jun 16th 2008 5:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/

All we needed to know :)]]>Jun 16th 2008 5:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/
I'll be waiting till I can run Crysis @ 60fps]]>Jun 16th 2008 6:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/
Call me when you can do that under 470 Euros. ]]>Jun 16th 2008 7:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/
I'll be waiting till 2011 until Intel releases their Vector Engine]]>Jun 16th 2008 7:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/
The chip is codenamed GT200, therefore GT is Graphics Tesla, and 200 refers to it's status as the second generation Tesla Graphics architecture.

And by the way, technically they did "do away with random cool sounding letter combinations at the end of the card name," seeing as it's the GeForce GTX 280 and not the GeForce 280 GTX. ;)]]>Jun 16th 2008 8:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/Jun 16th 2008 4:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/
Off-topic, the GTX 280 is unreasonably priced considering that for $250 less, you can get the 260 variant which only comes at the expense of about a 10% performance delta.

It will still be interesting to see how the R700 does in terms of price/performance ratio compared to these cards.


(Oh, and the obligatory Apple fanboy who doesn't know any better response: "Will this work on my MacBook Air?"

You gotta love 'em :) )


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Yeah, upgradeable systems... You mean like the PCI-Express bus, with processing cards like video cards that we just plug in, with options ranging from 1-4 GPUs?? Or like the CPU socket where we plug in a CPU with 1-4 cores per socket??]]>Jun 16th 2008 7:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/
Oh, and don't be an ass. ;)]]>Jun 16th 2008 7:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/
Yes, size does matter ...]]>Jun 16th 2008 4:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/
What do you expect.

Gamers usually have more beefy cases than minitowers.
A minitower is all good and well if you were a Mac user and you wanted to run Quake 3 on your shiny new Radeon X1900, but this is a man's card and demands at the very least a Mid-Tower with enough space to let this thing breathe properly.]]>Jun 16th 2008 4:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/
I know a girl or two that would be more than a little wet over this card.]]>Jun 16th 2008 5:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/
Can you, er, introduce me? Do you think my FX 5200 would cause moistness? It's got 256MB ram...]]>Jun 16th 2008 5:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/
you know some ugly girls]]>Jun 17th 2008 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/Jun 16th 2008 4:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/Jun 16th 2008 6:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/Jun 16th 2008 4:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/Jun 16th 2008 5:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/Jun 16th 2008 5:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/(please don't vote me down, I've been waiting for this ever since I could barely play Crysis on my current system)]]>Jun 16th 2008 4:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/
If Sony and MS that did that with consoles they would og out of business.

Nvidia is losing their grip on its own business and need to simply work on a new gpu for a few months and perfect to the point that it could handle anything for the next 9 months - 1 and a half and then pc gaming wouldnt be at the point of dying.

All this crap about a new card every month is whats really killing the market..]]>Jun 16th 2008 4:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/
In fact, PC gaming as a platform, when compared to any one single console (not all 6 or 7 combined) on its own, does better than arguably any one of them in terms of profits and sales volume.

"PC accounts for 30% ($2.76B) of US gaming marked and is projected to grow 14% this year"
http://www.pcgamingalliance.org/en/index.asp

Furthermore, in terms of online sales/distribution, the PC slaughters consoles, and that's what people fail to see.

All they go by is NPD data which doesnt track online sales.
Services such as Steam for example accounted for over 15 MILLION subsribers purchasing games through them within the last couple of years alone.

That my friend is a figure that just up until recently eclipsed the entirety of the X360 user base, and still does eclipse the entire PS3 user base, to put things in perspective.

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Sincerely,
Sensationalistic Console-Fanboy]]>Jun 16th 2008 5:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/
That card looks like it'll break my pci slot if I don't chain it to the top of my case. ]]>Jun 16th 2008 5:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/
You don't like it, don't buy it.

It's as simple as that.

The PC is all about choice.]]>Jun 16th 2008 5:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/
I am a nvidia user for life but they need to get their shit together, and yooou need to go crap somewhere else guy. ^_^]]>Jun 16th 2008 5:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/
Ugh.
]]>Jun 16th 2008 6:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/Jun 16th 2008 6:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/
Why anyone could complain about too many releases is beyond me though. More releases = more competition = faster price drops for older boards.]]>Jun 16th 2008 7:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/
I don't see how more choice hurts the consumer. Nobody is forced right now to buy a GTX 280 to play PC games.

If this new generation drops the price of the powerful 9 series, then its all the better for PC builders. It seems an arbitrary standard that new cards must be 2x or 4x or 8x more powerful than a previous "generation."

What counts more than anything is the price/performance ratio. So if the 9 series drops in price due to this release, consumers win. Furthermore, the 9 series has been shown to handle almost every existing game adeptly.

I fail to see how nVIDIA is hurting themselves by pushing their own technology forward. ]]>Jun 17th 2008 10:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/Jun 16th 2008 5:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/
It boils down to contact surface. I have an old 286 that is about the size of a quarter. It didn't need a lot of pins so it didn't require the bigger sockets of today's processors.]]>Jun 16th 2008 5:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/Jun 16th 2008 5:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/
http://www.rage3d.com/previews/video/nvg2xx/

A single GTX 260 is only $400 MSRP and is a better deal than a 9800 GX2.]]>Jun 16th 2008 5:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=191373]]>Jun 16th 2008 6:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/Jun 16th 2008 5:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/Jun 16th 2008 5:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/
Intel, AMD, and don't forget Via also have an increasingly smaller market to look at as well with laptops/media PCs. If they can keep their cost down by using the same (similar) chips in the laptops as they do in desktops, they can compete better.]]>Jun 16th 2008 5:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/...that's what she said.

someone had to do it. If this doesn't make sense, RTFA and WTFV]]>Jun 16th 2008 6:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/Jun 16th 2008 6:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/Jun 16th 2008 6:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/anywho
since when did they put an entire computer inside a graphics card?
this would blow anything away from up to about 5 years ago
without the graphics
i say put a C2D variant on this thing as the core and place som MRAm on the thing and you got yourself a power hungry, tiny, awesome computer
oh and a SSD- they are small enough to fit in the crevices
All for about $2000
Its a start?!?!?!?]]>Jun 16th 2008 6:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/Jun 16th 2008 7:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/Jun 16th 2008 7:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidias-geforce-gtx-280-gets-cracked-open-and-reviewed/Jun 16th 2008 7:56PM