NVIDIA also has a GeForce GTX 475 up its sleeve

Posted on Thursday, October 21 2010 @ 12:22 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
FUD Zilla claims NVIDIA will soon release a GeForce GTX 475, a new GF104-based graphics card with eight streaming multiprocessors (SM), one more than the regular GF104.
We have a few details about Nvidia's new plans that we want to share with you. Recent Geforce GTX 470 price drops have alerted many of Nvidia partners who now believe that the new GF104 chip with more firepower is just around the corner.

The new GF104 has eight Streaming multiprocessors (SM) while the old GF104 had seven. This could very easily be the same GF104 chip with one streaming multiprocessor disabled, as Nvidia simply didn’t need that more power back in July time when it launched Geforce GTX 460 cards. Now, since they might need some more power, they simply enabled the eight SM unit.


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