NV40 Specs
Posted by: NewsFactory on: 05/05/2003 04:27 PM [ Print | 9 comment(s) ] · 4317 views
Asus_voodoo has posted the Scans and the Specs for Nvidia's NV40 from a Russian magazine! Here's a byte ?
I was reading a magazine and found this. i scanned it and i ll translate it for you.
350 million transistors 0.09 microns Core @ 800MHz 16MB DRAM 8 Pixel Rendering Engines 16 Vertex Shader Engines
DDR-II 512MB Mem @ 1.4GHz 44.8GB/s bandwith DX9.1 or DX10 features 2nd half of 2004 (After the olympic games!!)
For the Scan Warp2 .... Futuremark.com's Forum
I was reading a magazine and found this. i scanned it and i ll translate it for you.
350 million transistors 0.09 microns Core @ 800MHz 16MB DRAM 8 Pixel Rendering Engines 16 Vertex Shader Engines
DDR-II 512MB Mem @ 1.4GHz 44.8GB/s bandwith DX9.1 or DX10 features 2nd half of 2004 (After the olympic games!!)
For the Scan Warp2 .... Futuremark.com's Forum
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rocco66 Unregistered |
#43481 Posted on: 05/05/2003 04:56 PM
hm ok - the scan is in greek - and since i 'm greek - i can read it - and it say that it's rumored - that those are the specs - you should no substanciate this info - a because the nv40 is far away and b -because it's a rumor - i mean who wants another bitboys - case . the numbers seem possible - but a bit unrealistic unless nvidia wants another flop fx - style. it will be expensive . even at 0.09 it would still generate a lot of heat, if it packs twice as many + transistors, - the memory will probably be on FIRE ?! @ 1.4 Gigs ! and as the circuits shrink i guess that there might be a lot more intererence. if they had problems with the 0.13 process from 0.15- hm, imagine trying to go down 0.04 microns i'd take it all with a pinch of salt. i mean with practically no fx's out - it aint looking too good . let's see how the nv35 is gonna do - b4 we start drooling over an unannoiunced piece of silicon. R400 anyone ?! :P |
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digitalwanderer Unregistered Posts: 3 Joined: 2004-02-22 |
#43483 Posted on: 05/05/2003 05:55 PM
Man, it'd be a great card if they can pull it off; but I tend to take everything from nVidia right now as pretty much complete BS and FUD until they actually back it up with a decent product.  |
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Comment Unregistered Posts: 22 Joined: 2002-12-21 |
#43484 Posted on: 05/05/2003 06:39 PM
I don't think you should take this "from Nvidia" at all. |
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digitalwanderer Unregistered Posts: 3 Joined: 2004-02-22 |
#43485 Posted on: 05/05/2003 06:53 PM
I don't see them up and denying it? Why shouldn't I believe that nVidia is trying to slip some unrealistically high white paper leaks out? It ain't like they haven't been guilty of it a few dozen times before or nothing? :rolleyes: |
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digitalwanderer Unregistered Posts: 3 Joined: 2004-02-22 |
#43486 Posted on: 05/05/2003 06:55 PM
I've heard rumors of an ATi refresh part already in the works with the designation "R420". If that's the case, it's a card I simply MUST own!!!   |
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JemyM Unregistered Posts: 108 Joined: 2003-02-13 |
#43487 Posted on: 05/05/2003 06:55 PM
NV30 was really cool when I first heard about it. That sums up everything I have to say. |
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Trik Unregistered Posts: 0 Joined: 2003-02-13 |
#43492 Posted on: 05/05/2003 09:49 PM
GeForceEnema For what it will do to your bank account
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hinkle Unregistered |
#43494 Posted on: 05/05/2003 11:57 PM
This information is a complete hoax. DX10 won't be available before 2005 so the nv40 cannot come out next year according to the information. I doubt that it will take nvidia over a year to get the nv40 out, it will happen earlier. 0.09 based graphiccards will most certainly also not be available before 2005. This transition takes more time than that. DDRII with 44.8Gb/s bandwidth implies a 256-bit datapath which is still and will be for many months too expensive and difficult to manufacture. It won't happen that fast. 800Mhz for the core frequency is probably also too high. 700MHz would be more realistic for next year if 0.09 micron based GPU are possible in 2004... But that doesn't matter, I'm still waiting for the official nv35 annoucement next week. This will probably be my next GPU... |
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rocco66 Unregistered |
#43498 Posted on: 05/06/2003 08:00 AM
well it clearly says that those are touted - they are RUMORS - more likely to be just some fanboys or ahem bitboys :P wet dream than anything else. but you know how it goes - even if there was some truth in there nvidia always claims some insane number, which usually if divided by a factor of two - is close to the real life performance. Plus the high end cards keep on getting more and more pricey... they need to keep an eye on that trend... i guess, for their own good. |
