Nvidia is about to launch its Geforce GTX 280 and Geforce GTX 260 cards. We've already told you all you need to know and these cards will get you a lot of performance, but they won't be cheap.

The Geforce GTX 280 has a 600MHz core clock and 240 Shaders, and in real life it ends up some 15 to 20 percent faster than the current performance leader, the Geforce 9800 GX2. Nvidia will play a game telling the world that a single GT200 chip beats the two G92 chips of the 9800 GX2. The key feature that gets GTX 280 to the next level compared to all G92 cards around is the 512-bit memory interface, but at the same time Nvidia is still stuck with GDDR3.

It won't really be cheap, as the Geforce GTX 280 will cost a hefty US$650 in e-tail and we believe that this will translate to around €600 in Europe.

The GTX 260 clocked at 576MHz will be somewhat cheaper and should sell for about $399 in the States and close to €350 to €400 in Europe. This card will end up with an odd memory configuration of 896MB of 448-bit GDDR3.

The reviews will appear later today.

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Geforce GTX 280 final specs

Geforce GTX 260 final specs

GT200-300 is taped out April 2008

D10U-20 also in the works April 2008

GT200 has over a billion transistors January 2008