NV40 coming soon

[mrsabidji]

Oh... Now THAT would be smart. ;)

mrsabidji

[sxotty]

Almost all developers say that having multiple precisions is good *if the top one is not useless* and they dropped fx12 already. I hope the next generation is closer in competivness otherwise it wont drive the prices down as much. Just think a real battle for the high end might await us woot.

Where did you get the idea that the launch was moved up?

[Uttar]

:lame: :spam:

:bs:

I heard a VERY strange thing in relation to the NV40 recently - but if that got anything to do this with crap, then, well, considering how new that info is and how strange it is...
You guys must have IQs of over 350 and have divine powers for speculation.

And looking at these posts... Well... I doubt that :p


Uttar

[volt]

I just want to comment on the NV38. I hope it never sees the light. I'd rather see NVIDIA work on NV40 than some crappy refresh + PR. After all, I highly doubt there will be _any_ architectural design changes which would constitute for a legal performance boost in HL2 :) IMO there is no need for such refresh if it's just a speed bump.

[snowwhite]

I wonder, if NV40 will be called GeForce FP :eek: (if they finally manage to get half-decent floating point performance)

[madshi]

Originally posted by Uttar
I heard a VERY strange thing in relation to the NV40 recently
Tell us about it! It's not on NFI yet, or is it?

:afro:

[Skinner]

Originally posted by bkswaney
I was told a couple of weeks back that NV had pushed the NV40 launch up quite a bit. I took it with a grain of salt even tho the person that told me gets pretty dang good inside info.

Now we know Samsung has already shipped 1000's of memory chips for them.

So now I'm wondering if it's true. If so ATI better get the R500 in high gear.
He also said the NV38 would never see the light of day.

I know this is not the rumor mill forum. ;)

I don't know, X-bit:

Has NV40 Been Taped Out?

Samsung Supplies 1600MHz GDDR2 to NVIDIA...
by Anton Shilov
09/18/2003 | 01:50 PM

Unofficial sources report that Samsung supplied some 10 thousands of its recently announced GDDR2 memory chips with extreme speed to NVIDIA for samples of the code-named NV40 GPU-based graphics cards. This suggests that the Santa Clara, California-based memory manufacturer has taped out the NV40 chips and now is ready to make some graphics cards based on the very early silicon implementation of the NV40.

We reported back on August 28, 2003, that Samsung had supplied its 1600MHz GDDR2 memory products to “leading graphics card manufacturers”. Now GPU:RW brings some more precise facts on the matter: the mentioned DRAMs had been supplied to NVIDIA Corporation for NV40 testing purposes. It makes me assume that either the NV40 graphics processor has been taped out already, or NVIDIA is about to tape out its highly-anticipated graphics chip with DirectX 9.1 support.

Peak theoretical bandwidth of 1600MHz memory on 256-bit bus is mind-blowing 51.2GB/s. In case NVIDIA utilizes so powerful memory on its NV40-based graphics cards, the latter will unbelievably leapfrog performance of the current GeForce FX 5900 Ultra and RADEON 9800 PRO solutions in a lot of cases. Unfortunately, the NV40 will not be available this year, but will come sometime in late Q1 or Q2 next year.

Well, at least now we know what kind of memory NVIDIA is considering for its NV40 at this point. It does not mean that NV40 will be equipped with 1600MHz GDDR2 memory for sure, but even this piece of information is better than nothing because we still know practically nothing about the competitor of the NV40 – ATI’s code-named R420 VPU.

No NVIDIA or Samsung representatives commented on the news-story.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/display/20030918134855.html

[Jeffus]

Originally posted by jAkUp
how much you wanna bet an official announcement will be made soon, praising the nv40.. so all the nvidia users wont switch over to ati.. almost kinda like what happened exactly 1 year ago.... hmmmm....

Well, I'm thinking of moving to ATI.. stuff Nvidia!:rw: I spent £400+ for my GFFX and now it seems I'm gonna spend a little less on the 9800PRO 256.. It's looking a little too late for them!;)

[Uttar]

Originally posted by madshi
Tell us about it! It's not on NFI yet, or is it?

:afro:

Nah :P

My source specificially said me: "It's too confusing. Don't leak it."

If I leaked that, 94759248 speculations about a probably useless thing will appear. So why would I leak it? ;)

And it's only of medium reliability, anyway... Second hand info. My source on it is not even sure what HIS source meant, and that's the whole problem, lol ( he's still in contact with him, but he refuses to say more )


Uttar

[Paul]

No wonder nVidia doesn't know it's ass from it's elbow right now :p