Nvidia is not kidding these days and it definitely wants to win the 40nm war. We've learned that it has an additional 40nm chip planned. This time we are talking about the card codenamed GT216 which is a 40nm chip with less than 45W TDP.

This looks like Nvidia’s mainstream card and there is a big chance that this card might be selling for under $100. The chip itself is using 29mm packaging and naturally OEMs will be the first customers, but at the same time this might be a new GT branded mainstream that could replace the 9600 generation.

We believe that this chip is meant to fight ATi’s 40nm RV740 chip, and we expect both of them some time in April.