Outlandish NV40 specs appear from Russian site

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I haven't seen this posted before - so here you are:

350 million transistors
0.09 microns
Core @ 800MHz
16MB DRAM
8 Pixel Rendering Engines
16 Vertex Shader Engines
DDR-II
512MB
Mem @ 1.4GHz
44.8GB/s bandwith
DX9.1 or DX10 features
2nd half of 2004 (After the olympic games!!)"


Its a bit early to be guessing NV40 - but I'd say the spec are probable except for the transistor count.

I would expect when you get well over 100 million transistors your performance is going to be a function of:

1. Number and width of simultaneous pathways through your chip
2. Number of processing units that can be used in parallel
3. Balance of chip desgn to minimise bottlenecks
4. Speed of switching circuitry
5. Avoidance of hotspots
6. Ability to feed it data fast enough.

At a massive 350 million transistors Point 1. above is probably the overriding factor!!! Yet no mention of its significance means this whole thing seems very susoect. Closer to 180 Million might be more realistic but lets see!

The article in question

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Yep, the article is in fact in greek and I'm still wondering which magazine that's from. I've seen those supposed specs a couple of months ago, someplace again, but they don't make really any sense to me.

2nd half of 2004 (After the olympic games!!)
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Athens is the capital of Russia :?:

j/k
 
AFAIK, NV40 is scheduled to be announced at this years Comdex, and released before the end of this year/early next year. So I think the date is wrong for starters.
 
Even though I don't speak Greek, the English bits in that article actually make the least sense. :p

MuFu.
 
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0.09 is not ready for mass production this fall. And 350m transistors running at 800Mhz, eh? :rolleyes:
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Notice they said second half of 2004, which makes the claims of .09um a tad more believable.
 
DaveBaumann said:
Why?
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42? Nah, too short ;)

350 million transistors, 0.09, 2H 2004 not a chance. Think about all the troubles 0.13 gave nvidia. You think it will get easier with nearly three times as many transistors and a new process? Plus, what team is working on NV50? NV35 is not here yet so you're talking less than two years for a new architecture (assuming the NV30 team is doing NV50). It doesn't add up.
 
Just out of curiosity, for how many generations have these so-called rumors predicted on-die DRAM? :)
 
OpenGL guy said:
Plus, what team is working on NV50? NV35 is not here yet so you're talking less than two years for a new architecture (assuming the NV30 team is doing NV50). It doesn't add up.
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Unless your assumption that nVidia only has two "teams" is fallicious. Also, didn't nVidia have a loose roadmap from ~2001 where they were talking about a 800 and then 1GHz IC with around 30M Gates in the 2005-2006 time frame?
 
i thought the latest rumors were that pixel/vertex pipes were going to be unified...

Vince isn't 30M gates more like 200million transistors?
 
EDRAM alone is expensive as hell, now they plan on getting it all on a .09 micron?

I would LOVE to see te price of this card. :rolleyes:
 
well considering greeks were one of the major ethnic groups in settling australia thats a bit of a shocker coming from an aussie :)
 
I thought Australians were decendants of convicts?...no offence, I'm not too bright when it comes to this stuff...
 
yes convicts were the first in(well aborigines were there for ages:)
but after that italians, greeks and dalmatians made up a very large %
Just watch some aussie sport, AFL or NRL and see how many wog names come up :)
 
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