Nvidia's new card lineup

[lankeyluke]

I just had a look on wikipedia and i saw the new GTX 4XX expected release date and specs. It sould be out Q1 2011 with a 32nm core, run on PCI-E x32 v3.0 and have GDDR6, If thats true then its gonna be a beast!!! and the new GTX 3XX will be based on a 40nm fabrication process wich some may know but i didn't.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of...orce_300_Series

[Baulten]

I would take this with a grain of salt. There is very little info on GTX 300 series, and none on the GTX 400 series.

[TheConqueror]

Ya I know, its gonna be a long while, and who knows what can change in tech over the next couple of years

[IVIYTH0S]

looking that far into the future with the 400 series is dumb lol they haven't even perfected their 40nm yet. They have to get on the stick with that. I could say ATI's gonna make their 6000 series cards with GDDR7 and it wont mean much because we probably wont see them until like next year at the earliest. (No offense, I'm not attacking you,I'm attacking whoever wrote that wiki)

Edited April 16, 2009 by IVIYTH0S

[Baulten]

Well, latest news shows GlobalFoundaries planning on having 28 nm GPU fabrication ready soon, so one might extropolate that HD 6000 will be 28 nm! But yeah, it's really pointless to look that far ahead.

[Geekspeak411]

But think of the nice low temps! Hopefully under the GTX280's , that will be nice.

Edited April 16, 2009 by Geekspeak411

[d0w0rk24]

That's just speculation but it would be tight if it was

[Ravenica]

But the it's still a fact that nvidia was slower compared to ati in terms of reducing the gpu cores.. So 32nm manufacturing process is kinda hard to believe for nvidia..

[IVIYTH0S]

But the it's still a fact that nvidia was slower compared to ati in terms of reducing the gpu cores.. So 32nm manufacturing process is kinda hard to believe for nvidia..

or atleast for them to be bragging about it, I'm not saying they cant do it. I just say they should try and get the 1st half of the battle done (40nm)

[Zertz]

The GTX300 specs make sense.. GDDR5, sure why not. Mobile GPUs are already built on 40nm so next gen will be 40nm without a doubt.. DX11+OpenGL3.1, yeah sure.

 

1.8 billion transistors.. Hmmm.. I kind of doubt this one, but the core was probably being developed at the same time as GT200 so it's not impossible

 

No comments on GT400 yet, way too far ahead

 

nVidia depends on TSMC, whenever a new process is available, they're probably first in line for mass production. 32nm by 2011 shouldn't be a problem

Edited April 17, 2009 by Zertz

[Ravenica]

But the way nvidia is progressing with their chips.. I'm not too confident bout their 40nm design.. Although i do know ATI might very well use a 32nm in the near future.. If it weren't for my previous bad experiences with ATI i would have been using 4890 now..

[Verran]

I find all the "ooh-ing and aaah-ing" over this stuff to be really silly...

 

Transistor count? Who even cares? Do you know the transistor count of the card in your system right now? No, I bet you don't. You'd have to google it. And why don't you know it? Because it means nothing to us in reality, and with good reason.

 

GDDR6? Again, who cares? The GTX295 has DDR3 and the 4870 has GDDR5. The bigger number doesn't necessarily mean anything. Even in system memory, for most users DDR3 offers little if any real-world improvement over DDR2. So what does the '6' really tell us about performance? Not much.

 

I think most people just pretend that these types of figures mean something to them when in reality all they're really saying is "ooh lookey, big numbers!" I get a kick out of that.