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Inside source gave some new details about nVidia's card, that is due to come out in the second half of next year (2004).
Same source was the one to give pre-release details about the current high-end card - NV30, even before Geforce4 was released.
Details were correct, about 90% of the data about NV30.
This information stands for only as a roadmap, and some of it might still change due to market requirements.
Read More For the NV40 Specs.
S2K
Here are the NV40 specs:
300-350 Million Transistors on 90-nm process
750-800 MHz Core
16MB Embedded DRAM (134M trans.)
1.4 GHz 256-512MB DDR-II Memory
8 Pixel Rendering Pipelines (4 texels each)
16 Vertex Shader Engines
204.8 GB/sec Bandwidth (eDRAM)
44.8 GB/sec Bandwidth (DDR-II)
25.6 GigaTexels per Second
3 Billion Vertices per Second
DirectX 10 (or extended 9.1)
Release H2 2004
We will release more data as soon as it comes available to us.
***The data above is not offical, and shouldnt be treated as such.
To compare, here are the NV30 Specs
0.13u process
500 MHz core clock speed
500(1Ghz) MHz 128-256MB DDR-II
125 M transistors
8 pixel pipelines with 2 texturing units each
16 texture layers per rendering pass
3.2 gigapixels per second
6.4 gigatexels per second
360-400 million vertices per second
16 gigabytes/sec
DirectX 9.0+ features (Pixel Shader 2.0+, Vertex Shader 2.0+, etc.)
128 and 64-bit Floating-Point Pixel Processing
Quad Vertex Shader Engine
Improved FSAA (Programmable Grid AA or Adaptive AA)
Improved HSR (Lightspeed Memory Architecture III)
AGP 3.0 (AGP 8x)
Same source was the one to give pre-release details about the current high-end card - NV30, even before Geforce4 was released.
Details were correct, about 90% of the data about NV30.
This information stands for only as a roadmap, and some of it might still change due to market requirements.
Read More For the NV40 Specs.
S2K
Here are the NV40 specs:
300-350 Million Transistors on 90-nm process
750-800 MHz Core
16MB Embedded DRAM (134M trans.)
1.4 GHz 256-512MB DDR-II Memory
8 Pixel Rendering Pipelines (4 texels each)
16 Vertex Shader Engines
204.8 GB/sec Bandwidth (eDRAM)
44.8 GB/sec Bandwidth (DDR-II)
25.6 GigaTexels per Second
3 Billion Vertices per Second
DirectX 10 (or extended 9.1)
Release H2 2004
We will release more data as soon as it comes available to us.
***The data above is not offical, and shouldnt be treated as such.
To compare, here are the NV30 Specs
0.13u process
500 MHz core clock speed
500(1Ghz) MHz 128-256MB DDR-II
125 M transistors
8 pixel pipelines with 2 texturing units each
16 texture layers per rendering pass
3.2 gigapixels per second
6.4 gigatexels per second
360-400 million vertices per second
16 gigabytes/sec
DirectX 9.0+ features (Pixel Shader 2.0+, Vertex Shader 2.0+, etc.)
128 and 64-bit Floating-Point Pixel Processing
Quad Vertex Shader Engine
Improved FSAA (Programmable Grid AA or Adaptive AA)
Improved HSR (Lightspeed Memory Architecture III)
AGP 3.0 (AGP 8x)
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