Nvidia tapes out G70 silicon!!!

[Josh378]

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=22645


Head to head with R520 'Fudo'

By Fuad Abazovic: Tuesday 19 April 2005, 13:06
WE JUST LEARNED that Nvidia taped out its next-generation graphics chip codenamed G70.

Whispers say that it's in good shape and that the first silicon is up and running nicely. Our pro-Nvidia sources believe that it will end up faster than ATi's R520, but ATiers will pooh-pooh that claim, for sure.

We don't have much information about specifics but we strongly believe that the G70 will be released very close to the R520's shipping date.

And we're told that this should happen sometime in the autumn but we don't always believe what we're told. Shipping and announcement dates have slipped too many times in the past so we like to take a large portion of salt with our regurgitations. Engineering is hard work and is very unpredictable.

We will fill you in when we learn more. µ

Good news for PS3's GPU? What is happening here...

Your thoughts,

Josh378

 

[jvd]

there is already a thread about this

But i'm going out on a limb here

24 pipe line nv40 with some small enhancments at 500-600mhz

i would say its on par with the r520 i would highly doubt that they can increase the pipelines on the gpu and increase the core clocks while staying on the same process

I know ati did it with the r300 and blew all our expectations but the nv30 is already a huge monster .

 

[Josh378]

sorry about this...I didn't see the post....I would love to see what Nvidia would have for the PS3...May can't get here any faster...

-Josh378