Here's a tidbit to come out of The Inq. at CeBit:
THE INQUIRER has managed to get hold of one NV40 sample.
We agreed not to photograph what we saw, but can confirm the following.
When removing the heatsink, we noted that the NV40 GPU itself was, in comparison to what we have seen before, quite large.
However whilst our earlier information indicated that it comprised of 205 -210 million transistors, our sources currently say that what we were holding was a 175 million transistor part.
Could this make other current scuttlebutt, then, and be the part--the original NV40--that they will launch soon to not lose ground to the R420, and their refresh would be delayed the length many were predicting to become a "bigger refresh" later? It was certainly something I was contemplating myself, and seems to have gotten a bit more confirmation on that front.
THE INQUIRER has managed to get hold of one NV40 sample.
We agreed not to photograph what we saw, but can confirm the following.
When removing the heatsink, we noted that the NV40 GPU itself was, in comparison to what we have seen before, quite large.
However whilst our earlier information indicated that it comprised of 205 -210 million transistors, our sources currently say that what we were holding was a 175 million transistor part.
Could this make other current scuttlebutt, then, and be the part--the original NV40--that they will launch soon to not lose ground to the R420, and their refresh would be delayed the length many were predicting to become a "bigger refresh" later? It was certainly something I was contemplating myself, and seems to have gotten a bit more confirmation on that front.
