NVIDIA had planned to launch three new DirectX 11-ready graphics chips in the market segments represented by the entry-level and mainstream.
More specifically, in mid-July the U.S. chip maker is expected to announce the gpu GF104: The primary feature of product are identical to the MSRP of $ 230 and a great propensity to operate in overclocking.
The GPU will be used for assembling the video card GeForce GTX 460. The graphics chip GF106 equip instead of the GeForce GTX 450 and GeForce GTX 455, these graphic cards have a cost of $ 129 and $ 179 and will be launched mid- August in order to push into phase-out line GT/GTS 250. At the moment we have no information on the performance achievable.
The graphics chip “GF108″ finally arrives in the month of August, September, and equip the solutions, which are not yet known trade name, which will replace the current GeForce 240.
NVIDIA is preparing to launch at Computex Taipei, to the proposed entry-level market: as reported by the well known website, the California company was going to attack the market segment of commercial volumes in the period known as back-to-school.
The new GPU product line will be developed on GF104, GF106 and GF108, solutions developed ad hoc and can correctly support DirectX 11. The new models, reportedly hit the market during the months of June, July and August (respectively, GF104, GF106 GF 108 E) in time for the month of September as NVIDIA has renovated most of its product offering. Despite missing when official confirmation from NVIDIA, new variations of GF100 volumes reach the market almost a year after its launch by the first ATI Radeon HD 5000 series model. Were not immediately available accurate information about the number of video cards that NVIDIA developed from the new GPU.
Tt is time for Nvidia to a bring significant performance gains with the release of the GeForce 197.13 beta drivers. This new version succeeds so the GeForce 196.75 WHQL drivers who were posted earlier this month before being withdrawn almost immediately due to a failure in the management of the fan can cause the destruction of the graphics card.
Drivers 3D Vision, HDMI and PhysX have also been updated but it is actually more toward performance that drivers find their interest. The gains are in fact very consistent in certain situations, even +20%, 30% in some games liek Left 4 dead.
This problem has obviously been fixed by this release Nvidia 197.13 beta but not only because many innovations are emerging as the GeForce chipsets support the 300 series (320 GT, 330 GT and 340 GT), which are nothing else than the GeForce GT 240 and repackaged to be reserved for OEMs. The new platform ION 2 is now also supported. Note also the 197.13 beta drivers to add or update SLI profiles for several popular games like Assassin Creed II, Mass Effect 2, Supreme Commander 2 and so on…
The new DirectX 11 GPU namely the GeForce 480 GTX, will be announced Friday, March 26th by Nvidia. Other GeForce drivers will then be published in that time, it will be perhaps the first version 197.xx WHQL certified by Microsoft.