Friday, December 22nd 2006
Sparkle produces first video card with 80nm NVIDIA GPU
Sparkle has officially beaten all the other NVIDIA manufacturers to making a card based on an 80nm GPU. The first 80nm GPU from NVIDIA is a blue 7600GT, based off of the G73 (there is no information on what NVIDIA calls the 80nm version of the G73). The card comes clocked at 650MHz, a full 90MHz faster then 7600GT stock specifications. The memory and memory controller is still the same. The memory is clocked at 1600MHz DDR, and is only 128 bit. The card comes with 12 ROP's, 256MB of memory, and a PCI Express x16 interface. The card should be available in 2007, and offers significant performance benefits when compared to the 90nm version of the same card (roughly 500 points in 3Dmark06).
Source:
The Inquirer
18 Comments on Sparkle produces first video card with 80nm NVIDIA GPU
-The Eagle
either way, if the price is right it'd make a heck of a card for your second computer.