{"id":4809,"date":"2009-03-31T22:17:45","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T22:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/?p=4809"},"modified":"2009-04-01T14:30:12","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T14:30:12","slug":"gtx275-set-for-april-2nd-launch-specs-confirmed-ambient-occlusion-to-be-added-to-geforce-185-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/gtx275-set-for-april-2nd-launch-specs-confirmed-ambient-occlusion-to-be-added-to-geforce-185-drivers\/","title":{"rendered":"GTX275 Set for April 2nd Launch; Specs &#8220;confirmed&#8221; &#8211; Ambient Occlusion to be added to WHQL Geforce 185.20 drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>It appears that all of the speculation about GTX275 has been confirmed by one of our sources.\u00a0\u00a0Accordingly, we can expect a\u00a0paper launch with expected clockspeeds of 633 MHz core\/1136 MHz\u00a0memory; and shader information\u00a0previously leaked\u00a0about\u00a01404 mhz were evidently spot on.\u00a0 There are still some conflicting reports which place its\u00a0memory speeds\u00a0at 1134 MHz.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>More interesting perhaps, is the ambient occlusion that will be added to the new GeForce 185.20 drivers. Although we have seen the betas, it is now confirmed that they will be released together with the GTX275, and should net approximately 5-20% improvement in several games.\u00a0 And of course, they will add ambient occlusion.\u00a0 It is reported in <em>Half Life 2<\/em>, an old game, \u00a0it gave some nice shadows, but it also\u00a0took a performance hit of about 20%.\u00a0 Evidently\u00a0Nvidia also had a example\u00a0of ambient occlusion in\u00a0<em>World in Conflict<\/em>, but they would not specify the performance hit.\u00a0 We have also seen additional SLi-AA modes which is a welcome new\u00a0addition\u00a0introduced by\u00a0these new GeForce drivers.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>We can also expect Nvidia to\u00a0be releasing a new power pack, with some PhysX demo&#8217;s.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Stay tuned.\u00a0 Much more to come.<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Please join us in our <a href=\"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/abt\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Forums<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/alienbabeltech\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/twitter.com\/alienbabeltech', 'Twitter']);\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the latest updates from ABT, please <a href=\"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/?feed=rss2\" target=\"_blank\">join our RSS News Feed<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that all of the speculation about GTX275 has been confirmed by one of our sources.\u00a0\u00a0Accordingly, we can expect a\u00a0paper launch with expected clockspeeds of 633 MHz core\/1136 MHz\u00a0memory; and shader information\u00a0previously leaked\u00a0about\u00a01404&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[630,629,490,631,628],"class_list":["post-4809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ambient-occlusion","tag-geforce-185-ambient-occlusion","tag-gtx275","tag-gtx275-april-2-launch","tag-gtx275-specifications-confirmed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}