ReactorCritical reports that @ one of the recent conferences, Nvidia`s CEO, Jen-Hsen Huang, told analysts that the upcoming graphics processor code-named NV30 is not yet taped-out. Most of the industry observers started at once claim that NV30 will be late as it is not ready. ReactorCritical decided to ask their sources at the company about what is happening and, in fact, they told some hot`n`juicy details about the current condition of NV30 and its architecture. They even were kind enough to whisper them some performance estimates.

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In Quake III Arena in 1280x1024 with 4x FSAA enabled, NV30 is going to be 2.5 times faster than the GeForce4 Ti4600.

In The Next Doom the board based on NV30 will be able to show 3.5 times or or even more of the performance the current Nvidia`s flagman has to offer us there.

NV30 will score three times more than the GeForce4 Ti4600 in 3D Mark 2001.

Effective HQ Pixel Fillrate (2x anisotropic filtering enabled) of the newcomer with will be about 2.7 times more than that of the fastest NV25.

As for pixel-shading speed, it will be 4 times of the NV25.

Nvidia claims that its upcoming GPU is capable of processing 200 millions triangles per second For more info warp 2 ... ReactorCritical.com