Some NV40 Rumours

Posted on Tuesday, July 22 2003 @ 10:39 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

There is not much information about nVidia's future 3D card with codename NV40. Although here are a few speculations from The Inquirer :

Architecture : 0.13µ (micron) marchitecture with the help of IBM. According to the Inq this leads to a maximum of 200 millions transistors.

Pipelines : Possibly 12

The NV40 will be a native PCI Express chip with some kind of bridge to make it work in current AGP boards that will co-exist for quite some time .

Performance : No doubts that it will be faster than the GeForce FX 5900 Ultra, possibly by 30% like with most nVidia new generation video chipsets in the past.

Memory : No 256 bit interface because it is still too expensive. Probally the NV40 will use DDR II

Name : Almost 100% sure that it will be GeForce. nVidia has made a lot of fame with the GeForce series so it is very doubtful that they will change the name. I personally wonder will they ever do?

Source : The Inquirer

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Thomas has been messing with computer since early childhood and firmly believes the Internet is the best thing since sliced bread. Enjoys playing with new tech, is fascinated by science, and passionate about financial markets. When not behind a computer, he can be found with running shoes on or lifting heavy weights in the weight room.

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