Internet leaks show that in the end of this year market will welcome new NVIDIA graphics card, which has all chances to threaten the current leader, Radeon 4870 X2 from ATI. It will be a high-end GeForce GTX 350, and it boards new chip – GT300, manufactured in 55 nm process technology.

The new GPU will consist of 480 stream processors (formerly leader GT200, includes 240), 64 texture units and 512-bit memory controller. The core GT300 is to be at clock 830 MHz, 2075 MHz shader processors, and memory (GDDR5) – 3360 MHz. In the specifications that GeForce GTX 350 should be more than 50% faster than the current GT200, and this means that it will smash Radeon 4870 X2.

The exact release date or price of a new NVIDIA product is not yet known. GeForce GTX 350, but will certainly not cheap, however, you can expect that it will be for Christmas can be purchased for around  760 $.

EDIT: Rumors say that GT300 core will not support DirectX 10.1