Nvidia is working on
many 40nm chips at the same time and GT214 is the performance card that will
come a bit later this year. According to our sources, this card should launch
at some point in Q3, roughly a year after the 65nm GT200 was launched.
Traditionally,
Nvidia launches its entry level and mainstream with the new technology and once
the manufacturing process at 40nm is mature enough, they launch their performance
cards. Moreover, Nvidia sales have really shown to depend on its performance segment.
The new card is
codenamed GT214 and should come with a TDP of around 100W, but we don’t know much more
than that. This is the last performance card from Nvidia to support DirectX 10
only, and the new card codenamed GT300 will have the full DirectX 11 support
but it will come in the last months of 2009.