Although the GF10x GeForce 400 family has repeatedly suffered, the heir to the GF11x GeForce 500 series is lightning-fast, and the fastest full-line layout will be completed in the first quarter of next year.

Of course, we have already seen the GF110 core GeForce GTX 580, and its little brother GeForce GTX 570 will also follow up this year, and together made a big brother GeForce GTX 480.

Similar changes will also appear on the GF104 core, internal optimization becomes GF114, corresponding to the model GeForce GTX 560, there should be eight complete sets of SM units, a total of 384 stream processors, 64 texture units. The release time is estimated early next year, but it depends on where the hot-selling GeForce GTX 460 can go.

Now that we have heard of the GF116, it is obviously an evolution of the GF106. The actual product models are the GeForce GT 550 and GeForce GT 530. The number of stream processors should still be up to 192 (four SMs) and the core size will not change. However, some people said that it is not possible to increase the number of SM 240 stream processors to five groups, but it is impossible to confirm. The release time of these two models was also set in the first quarter of 2011, with the highest probability in February-March.

Before we heard about the names of GeForce GT 540 and GeForce GT 520, the GeForce 500 family is basically complete, but there are also two confusions: First, the name "GeForce GTS" seems to be missing, otherwise we will see It should be the GeForce GTS 550 instead of the GeForce GT 550. This series for the mainstream market, between the GeForce GTX, GeForce GT, whether the future will really cancel and simplify the product line?

Second, the current low-end model GeForce GT 430 is based on the entry-level core GF108, GeForce GT 530 has changed to a more advanced GF116 core, and has not heard of GF118.

Anyway, this messy feeling is not the first time, and the vast majority of these arguments come from the grapevine news. How can the facts only slowly wait for NVIDIA to come up with one hand after another.

GeForce 400 Series Product Line Models and Cores:

GeForce GTX 480 (GF100)
GeForce GTX 470 (GF100)
GeForce GTX 465 (GF100)
GeForce GTX 460 1GB (GF104)
GeForce GTX 460 768MB (GF104)
GeForce GTX 460 SE (GF104)
GeForce GTS 450 (GF106)
GeForce GT 430 (GF108)

GeForce 500 Series Product Line Models and Cores:

GeForce GTX 580 (GF110)
GeForce GTX 570 (GF110)
GeForce GTX 560 (GF114)
GeForce GT 550 (GF116)
GeForce GT 540 (GF116)
GeForce GT 530 (GF116)
GeForce GT 520 (GF118?)

According to this lineup, the focus of the GeForce 400 series is on mid- to high-end markets, and the GeForce 500 series will greatly expand the scope of power in the low-end areas and closer to the mass consumer.