The product got faster, yet consumes less power. The TDP (peak wattage) is now roughly 219 Watts. You'll spot two 6-pin connectors on the boards, whereas the GTX 280 for example still had one 6-pin and one 8-pin connector for it's feed.
The new 55nm GTX series 200 GPUs require a little less voltage, as a result it consumes less power. What's nice about the GTX 275 release is that it is based off the new 55nm fabrication process, this has several advantages. Performance accounts up to roughly 1 TFLOP (depending how you measure it actually). The GTX 275 has 28 of them and 80 texture filtering units. When we follow that good old pixel pipeline we run into a ROP (Raster Operation) domain. But really, it accounts for only a little performance differential.įor the folks that like to go a little deeper: this high-end part has 896MB of GDDR3 memory which has a 448-bit memory bus that binds to seven 64-bit memory controllers inside the GPU. And though that is a higher clock opposed to the previous GTX 280, it is slightly slower than a GTX 285. There are more clocked domains inside that GPU though, the shader processors run at 1404 MHz and the memory is at 1134 MHz (effectively 2268 MHz). The new GeForce GTX 275 reference based product will run at a core clock frequency of 632 MHz. It gives the product a 127 GB/s bandwidth. Therefore NVIDIA gave it the GTX 260 memory configuration, 896 MB of gDDR3 memory over a 448-bit bus (opposed to 512bit). What is different though is that the GTX 275 obviously had to be a tad slower than big daddy GTX 285. In fact, the very same GPU has been utilized bringing 240 stream processors to the GTX 275. How different is the GTX 275 to the GTX 285? A very valid question, the answer is: for you as an end user, not much. Think about that for a minute you might go nuts. I don't know what will drive you more nuts thinking about the number of operations going on in a GPU0, or squeezing your left nut. Then take a MHz, 1 MHz denotes one million hertz or one million cycles per second. Now imagine 1400 million transistors times the clock frequency of the GPU ( this determines how many times per second the transistors can change state, or, rather, switch between 1 and 0). It's the biggest beast of a graphics processor that NVIDIA has ever built with 1400 million transistors.ġ400 million transistors, think of a transistor as an on/off switch on = 1 and off = 0. The GTX series 200 GPU sums up to 1400 million transistors. The GTX 275 is all about the 55nm fabrication based product series GTX 200. The new release should be available at about US$269.So I'd like to start off with a little 101 on the GTX 200 series GPU. In addition, Zotac will provide its customers with the Firestorm application, which allows users to maximize the performance of their ZOTAC GeForce 8, 9 and other GTX graphics cards. The card also supports DirectX 10 and OpenGL 3.0 API, PhysX and CUDA-based applications as well as NVIDIA's PureVideo HD technology. Aside from that, you will get all the features that are enabled on almost all of NVIDIA's latest GeForce cards, including support for multi-GPU configurations through SLI technology. The card's 240 Stream processors have been set at a frequency of 1512MHz, while the 896MB of 448-bit GDDR3 memory have been overclocked to 2520MHz. With 240 stream processors, 896MB of GDDR3 memory and a 448-bit memory interface, the ZOTAC GeForce GTX 275 is the best bang-for-the-buck graphics card a demanding gamer can purchase,” said Carsten Berger, marketing director, ZOTAC International.Ĭompared to the standard model, the latest Zotac GeForce GTX 275 AMP! is featured with a factory-overclocked GPU that runs at a core speed of 702MHz. “We were looking to deliver the absolute best performance for the money with our new ZOTAC GeForce GTX 275 series. The card is featured with the same dual-slot cooling solution that you will get for other GTX 275 products, but will deliver a higher performance thanks to Zotact's overclocking features. The new graphics accelerator has been designed on the recently launched GTX 275 GPU and, as with all other AMP! cards, it comes with a factory-overclocked GPU, meant to provide end-users with a higher level of performance, compared to other reference models. Following the release of NVIDIA's latest addition to its GeForce 200-series of graphics processing units, Zotac, one of NVIDIA's leading board partners, has recently announced the introduction of its latest AMP! Edition graphics card.