On Monday, Advanced Micro Devices and Nvidia are launching graphics chips based on distinctly different design philosophies.
Nvidia's GTX 280 and GTX 260 are designed to deliver the biggest performance bang per chip. A so-called "monolithic" approach packs 1.4 billion transistors and 240 processing cores onto one piece of silicon.
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