The hardware is final, but some of the other particulars could be subject to change between now and when the GTX 275 shows up for sale-especially once ATI and Nvidia find out what each other are charging and start jockeying for position. BFG NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 896 MB GDDR3 SDRAM PCI Express 2.0 x16 Graphics Card. Combine those three factors and we’re a little more comfortable calling this a preview.
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Finally, the drivers with which we’re testing are in beta, and will be posted to Nvidia’s download site as betas on April 2 nd. Moreover, cards are expected to start trickling out shortly after launch in Europe and be widely available to the rest of the world by April 14 th, so you very likely won’t be able to buy a card right away (in contrast, the Radeon HD 4890 should be available at launch). With that said, early murmurs from Nvidia fall right around $249-right at ATI’s suggested retail price on the Radeon HD 4890 1 GB. But by withholding the GeForce GTX 275’s price tag until the very last minute, comparing the card to its competition becomes a tricky matter. Set a target too early and ATI finds out, using price and performance data to re-orient the Radeon HD 4890. Nvidia is playing its price card very close to its proverbial chest. Incidentally, that’s the same GPU doubled up and slapped on Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 295. The only thing short of a GeForce GTX 280, which is being phased out in favor of the GTX 285, is a GeForce GTX 280 with the GTX 260’s back-end-the 28 ROPs and 896 MB of GDDR3 on a 448-bit memory bus.