NVIDIA GeForce GT 530 and GeForce GT 550 expected in Q1 2011

Posted on Tuesday, November 23 2010 @ 21:48 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
FUD Zilla expects NVIDIA will release GeForce GT 530 and GeForce GT 550 graphics card in Q1 2011, likely in February or March:
Following this logic, you can expect to see GF116, a successor of GF106 chip and the cards branded as Geforce 550 and 530. One more time this will be an existing chip with all parts enabled, that will get more performance to the same price segment, and with some luck it should be enough to take on ATI in this market segment. Of course it’s a DirectX 11 part.

The funny thing is that the new generation comes roughly two quarters after the official introduction of Geforce GT 450 based on GF106, a 238 square millimetre chip and we have a hunch that the GF116 will remain the same size, but it will up the shader number configuration from 192 (four shader clusters of 48 Shaders). In case that GF116 comes out with five clusters you can expect 240 shaders, but this is something that we cannot confirm at this time.


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