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Today, NVIDIA officially announces its new GeForce GTX 200 family of graphics processing units (GPUs) and the first two products in the family, the GeForce GTX 280 and the GeForce GTX 260.

NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 280 graphics chip

(Credit: NVIDIA Corporation)

The GeForce GTX 280 is the new flagship of NVIDIA’s GPU product line, taking over from last year’s GeForce 9800 GTX. (The change in the product-name format from "9800 GTX" to "GTX 280" is potentially confusing and doesn’t seem that useful to me, but I’m sure we’ll get used to it over time. I suppose NVIDIA’s other choice was to go with numbers above 10,000, which might have been even worse.)

NVIDIA disclosed the details of these products at an Editor’s Day conference in May, and most of the attendees, including myself, received GTX 280 graphics cards for editorial review. These cards are NVIDIA reference boards, not retail products.

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