Tuesday, October 28th 2008
40nm High-End NVIDIA GPUs Slated for 2009, GT206 for Q4
NVIDIA is expected to continue on its monolithic high-end GPU approach with a few notable GPUs that have been slated for Q4, 2008 and throughout 2009. The visual computing giant will be rolling out a 55nm derivative of the existing G200 graphics processor, codenamed GT206. The GPU is expected to be essentially the same, albeit newer silicon process allowing higher clock-speeds, that push up the performance envelope. The GT206 will be released in Q4, 2008., presumably to cash-in on the X-mas shopping season. It is found that GT206 seems to be having problems with its shader domain, which has pushed its launch for that late.
Following GT206, GT212 and GT216 would be NVIDIA's entries to the 40nm silicon fabrication process. Earlier reports suggested that foundry companies in Taiwan could be ready with the infrastructure to manufacture 40nm GPUs by June/July 2009. For the late second quarter 2009, either GT212, GT216, or simply a new card based the GT206, in a dual-GPU configuration could lead the pack. GT212 and GT216 could release in Q2, 2009. The GT212, GT216 GPUs support GDDR5 memory on a broad memory bus. Towards the end of the year however, NVIDIA will have made its DirectX 11 GPU, the GT300.
Source:
Hardspell
Following GT206, GT212 and GT216 would be NVIDIA's entries to the 40nm silicon fabrication process. Earlier reports suggested that foundry companies in Taiwan could be ready with the infrastructure to manufacture 40nm GPUs by June/July 2009. For the late second quarter 2009, either GT212, GT216, or simply a new card based the GT206, in a dual-GPU configuration could lead the pack. GT212 and GT216 could release in Q2, 2009. The GT212, GT216 GPUs support GDDR5 memory on a broad memory bus. Towards the end of the year however, NVIDIA will have made its DirectX 11 GPU, the GT300.
34 Comments on 40nm High-End NVIDIA GPUs Slated for 2009, GT206 for Q4
I guess that's what ya get for reading in a hurry.
Is it still diwali?
thats what they did with dx10.
Incase anybody missed that little epsode of clutch cargo, MS orignal specs for dx10 where whats now 10.1, ms backed off that because nVidia cryed and bitched about it and didnt want to support it, then after MS patches to 10.1 nvidia still dosnt support it with their next gen card(gt200) so we are looking at the high likelyhood they wont support a new dx revision when it comes out or wont fully support it.
meh, im still using my 8800gts 512, will wait and see, the 4870 is intresting, the x2 is VERY intresting, but duno.......we will see.......
The best part about reading all your comments, is that in summary I can now say to any HD4850 owners I have the pleasure of meeting (and arguing about graphics cards), that their two generation newer cards barely can outperform my good-ol 8800GTX :D thanks for that, cant wait to rub it in at someone! :nutkick: