NVIDIA G200-103-B2 - 55nm GTX260 pictured

[Apoptosis]

NVIDIA is going to release a new revision of GeForce GTX260 - GT200b (G200-103-B2). The ‘b’ stands for the 55nm process.

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The first of new GTX260 graphic cards will hit the market in January next year. The number of its stream processors will maintain as 216, and its memory frequency is unchanged as well. The reference and non-reference versions cards will be on sale at the same time. Thanks to application of new processor and the circuit designed by manufacturers themselves, the price will hopefully keep declining. The GTX260 card is already available at $264 at the lowest right now.

More high-end products based on G200b, including GTX280 and dual-core 260GX2 will also emerge in Jan 2009.

[cyclo]

Well, if you believe The Inquirer, apparently the combination of a heat spreader and the stiffener around it is not a good thing:

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/ ... rts-update

[vbironchef]

From what I have been reading from different sources is that profomance will remain the same. That they are having major issues with the design, with a lot of bugs to work out. The price will go down but the risk in the near term might be a card that could be plagued with problems. I feel that there is no reason to wait for the 55nm to come out. If you need a graphic card now then go for it.