NV40 and R420/423 investigated - Piecing together the puzzle

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As the launch of next-generation video cards from 'the big two' comes ever closer upon us, the rumour-mill is reaching new levels of frenzy. Almost every day a new rumour sees the light of day, only to be contradicted the next.

Win a Sony VAIO PCG-TR2MP

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TrustedReviews is running a competition where you can win a brand new Sony VAIO PCG-TR2MP, but it's only open to EU residents.

RADEON 9900 vs GeForce FX 6000

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The chinese site GZeasy have snagged the latest Nvidia and ATI Roadmaps that shows us some of the naming schemes they have in store for us! and not long before we see Nvidia's NV44 either.

nVidia's HSI and PCI Express Plan Documentation

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nVidia held a conference call for Asia Pacific media today where they talked to TweakTown about their plans and intentions for their HSI technology and PCI Express. They have the full conference call documentation for your viewing pleasure as well as short commentary

CeBit News

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TrustedReviews.com has plenty of news from CeBit and got pic's of some cool new Kiss DivX/WMV9 players and loads more, check it out.

Graphics at CeBit

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Beyond3D recently attended the CeBit computer fair in Hannover, Germany to take a look at what?s new from the graphics vendors. While the industry is waiting to transition to PCI-Express and many in the graphics world are waiting for ATI and NVIDIA?s new 3D chips neither are fully ready yet so many vendors are in a sort of holding pattern at this show.

3D Price/Performance Shootout

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So many GPUs, so little time. With both ATI and nVidia having such a variety of GPUs on the market at any given time, finding price/performance gems can be a tall order. We sifted through a whole lot of rocks to find the diamonds. We present those, plus a boatload of test data for your surfing pleasure.

Nvidia NV40 Pics

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The Korean site bodnara.co.kr have what they claim are the first photo's of Nvidia's upcoming NV40 GPU!

Update: Seems that bodnara.co.kr have moved the pics but fear not as PCInpact also have posted the same pics.

Radeon 9800 Pro using RV360 Core

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Just spotted this bit of Info over at OCWorkbench.

According to our friend who is now in Japan, he saw a Radeon 9800 pros is on sale that and the store states uses the RV360 (Radeon 9800xt) cores. He also saw the card with the core exposed on display, but the staff could not shed light on what this.

ATI R420 to Premiere Next Week at GDC?

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Digitalwanderer seems to have taken a vest and sewn a button on it, but Elite Bastards is reporting that the R420 is going to be making it's premiere next week at the Game Developer's Conference.

First NV40 Benchmarks and Clockspeeds

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Following on from the screenshots posted earlier, some of the first definitive benchmark numbers and clockspeeds for NV40 have now been released!

You can read it all: here

ATI R423 Pic's? & NV40 Out on 13th of April?

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Looks like Digit-Life have snagged the First photo's of ATi's R423, the PCI Express 16x variant of the R420 graphics card at CeBIT 2004 from GeCube booth! click the pic to your left for the photo's and while we're talking about new graphics cards, The Register is reporting that the launch date for Nvidia's NV40 is 13th of April

NVIDIA to update nForce2 MCP

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Just spotted this bit of news over at the TechReport

It's long been known that NVIDIA's nForce3 250Gb chipset for Athlon 64 processors would feature Serial ATA RAID, Gigabit Ethernet, and a hardware firewall, but I can now reveal that these extras will also make their way to the K7 platform in a new nForce2 MCP. Expected in a couple of months, the new MCP's extra storage and networking features should help the nForce2 compete with VIA's KT880 and KT600 chipsets.

Grantsdale Benchmarks

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Computer Base have thrown up some numbers for Intel's upcoming Grantsdale-G chipset using 3DMark03 and Sandra 2003 MAX!

PCI Express: NVIDIA Conference Call

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3DGPU have thrown up a new article which looks at Nvidia's implementation of PCI-Express! Here's a snip.

I recently had a chance to take part in a conference call with Steve Sims, Senior Product Marketing Manager at NIVIDA, who gave me a little more information about their PCI Express (PCI-E) product line and how it all works.