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Nvidia to continue with big chips

by on22 December 2008

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Big monolithic high end


Nvidia wants to continue its big monolithic, high-end strategy as this might be a better thing than the two-chip approach used by ATI. This strategy didn’t actually work well this time round, as Nvidia was pushed to launch Geforce GTX 295, a card with two GT200b, 55nm chips simply as its single high end GT200 GTX 280 at 65nm was not enough to beat ATI’s two-chip X2 card.

Next generation high-end, the one that comes after GTX 285 and dual chip GTX 295, will again be a big chip; but it looks that Nvidia keeps a dual card approach as a reserve that can help it fight against ATI.

We expect that the next chip, the one that comes after 55nm GT200b, will again be a similar chip with shaders clocked higher than the GPU clock and many parallel stream processors at higher clock, but we know very little about this 40nm chip.  

 

Last modified on 23 December 2008
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