As reports associate, NVIDIA can answer the release of new radeon HD 6000. Moreover, entire war will be developed in the highest price categories. NVIDIA recognized defeat in connection with the late introduction of fermi generation .
New video card will be based on GF110 chip, which will not bring a quantitative increase in the number of stream processors, 512 as this was originally planned for GF100. One of the important changes will be for textural blocks, they will become 128 pcs ; against 60 in GeForce GTX 480. In this case, the memory interface will grow to 512 bits, which work together with 2 Gb GDDR5 memory . In spite of all improvements, energy consumption will remain at the previous level, the video card will be equipped only by one six-pin and one octal power connector.
The device will be called GeForce GTX 485 or GeForce GTX 580, from marketing considerations and for the best competition with the new AMD radeon HD 6000.