Nvidia's entry against 7850/70

[Veramocor]

When will Nvidia be releasing a new cards against the AMDs 7850/7870 price points?

What will they be called GTX 660/650?

 

[SickBeast]

Some people are saying 1-2 months, others are saying 6+ months.

 

[tviceman]

My money is on a third GK104 SKU. 6 SMX units at 850mhz base (or so) and 192-bit memory interface, or a 256-bit memory interface with slower ram tied to it. Actually I see Nvidia doing both, so I think there will be four GK104 sku's. GTX660ti and GTX660.

 

[jzmagic]

6 months

 

[SickBeast]

There might be a Gtx 650 as well.

 

[DeeJayeS]

what is the GTX 640?

http://www.arctic.ac/en/p/cooling/vga.html <-- look at the compatible lists

an OEM part?

just curious...

 

[blastingcap]

My money is on a third GK104 SKU. 6 SMX units at 850mhz base (or so) and 192-bit memory interface, or a 256-bit memory interface with slower ram tied to it. Actually I see Nvidia doing both, so I think there will be four GK104 sku's. GTX660ti and GTX660.

This is definitely possible since apparently they ordered a bunch of 680s but judging by the numbers of them relative to the 670, TSMC gave them a bunch of defective 680s back.

680 - 8 SMX
670 - 7 SMX
660 Ti - 6 SMX (may not have been originally planned but I can see NV issuing this sometime during the summer)

Do not expect the lower die GTX 660 non-Ti anytime before the fall, though: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=21792525&postcount=54 (That's Andrew Gibbon, proprietor of OCUK)