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Nvidia 40nm chips to be similar to GT200

by on05 January 2009

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Next generation Nvidia in the 40nm manufacturing process will share the basic design concept with the GT200 design. This architecture was introduced at 65nm and was rather hot, and forced Nvidia to make very big chips, but eventually the architecture was flexible enough to shrink to 55nm and bring some new products such as GTX 260, 285 and 295 all based on 55nm GT200b chips. The original idea was carried from 65nm to 55nm.

The future will bring a similar concept but at 40nm, and you can easily expect more shaders, higher clocks and less heat dissipation from this new GPUs. Knowing Nvidia there should be something innovative, but many sources have confirmed that the 40nm design basics will be close to GT200 concept. Nvidia bets a lot in 2009 on Cuda and PhysX and some innovations are expected in this field. Nvidia will probably try to optimise its GPUs further for parallel computing.

Nvidia will still stick to big monolithic chips for the high end, pushing the transistor count and hopefully performance limits to the next level, and it always has a safe net woven of two GPUs on a single card. If ATI’s new generation 40nm dual GPU card, lets call it R800 ends up faster than single 40nm high end Nvidia chip, Nvidia will use two of its chips for its top range card, and the game is on.
Last modified on 05 January 2009
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