Sunday, May 17th 2009

NVIDIA GT300 Already Taped Out
NVIDIA's upcoming next-generation graphics processor, codenamed GT300 is on course for launch later this year. Its development seems to have crossed an important milestone, with news emerging that the company has already taped out some of the first engineering samples of the GPU, under the A1 batch. The development of the GPU is significant since it is the first high-end GPU to be designed on the 40 nm silicon process. Both NVIDIA and AMD however, are facing issues with the 40 nm manufacturing node of TSMC, the principal foundry-partner for the two. Due to this reason, the chip might be built by another foundry partner (yet to be known) the two are reaching out to. UMC could be a possibility, as it has recently announced its 40 nm node that is ready for "real, high-performance" designs.
The GT300 comes in three basic forms, which perhaps are differentiated by batch quality processing: G300 (that make it to consumer graphics, GeForce series), GT300 (that make it to high-performance computing products, Tesla series), and G200GL (that make it to professional/enterprise graphics, Quadro series). From what we know so far, the core features 512 shader processors, a revamped data processing model in the form of MIMD, and will feature a 512-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface to churn out around 256 GB/s of memory bandwidth. The GPU is compliant with DirectX 11, which makes its entry with Microsoft Windows 7 later this year, and can be found in release candidate versions of the OS already.
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The GT300 comes in three basic forms, which perhaps are differentiated by batch quality processing: G300 (that make it to consumer graphics, GeForce series), GT300 (that make it to high-performance computing products, Tesla series), and G200GL (that make it to professional/enterprise graphics, Quadro series). From what we know so far, the core features 512 shader processors, a revamped data processing model in the form of MIMD, and will feature a 512-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface to churn out around 256 GB/s of memory bandwidth. The GPU is compliant with DirectX 11, which makes its entry with Microsoft Windows 7 later this year, and can be found in release candidate versions of the OS already.
96 Comments on NVIDIA GT300 Already Taped Out
how many percentage jump will this gpu bring compare to current gpu.
Or not hot? Hope temps are nice........:p
Yea and let's not forget the OCability from the newer 40nm process, and seeing that ATI has a bit more experience with 4770, I predict that it will be more efficient with minimal leakage.
Hrm.....seems like Nvidiots are still floating the Nvidia boat.
As to drivers, yes Nvidia makes you feel good by realeasing one driver a week in multiple forms so you can spen all your time uninstalling, reinstalling, and trying to see if it fixes things, and then end up using whatever prevents the issues you have or experiance, and with ATI, you don't get all the fun of a bunch of drivers to try, so you just use the one that works. Damn, using only one driver that works and not trying three or four. Seems stuipd to me to, oh well, you keep trying while I go play games.
I know words are hard, so here are pictures. The ones above are performance per dollar.
Do you understand this?
Below are the performance at STOCK clocks for the models.
So let me see, spend more money for less performance............ GTX285 FTW!!!!!! ;)
Hey mate this takes the cake the majority of your graphs are performance per dollar and then you have graphs that are relative performance all of which nvidia wins so do you have a point at all? Lastly i may be relatively new here but from what i know your not allowed to double post.
I think ATI already predicted that the GT300's would have these specs and 1200 sp's would probably give nowhere near the performance of a GT300 with only 1200sp's.
So why would anyone with a brain do it for a GPU or a CPU?
Animalpak WAKE UP!!!
HD5870 doest need to beat the gt300 on its game, just do like the 4870 did for half the price you get 70-80% of the performance, if its not enough, slap 2 of those together for the same price and get 140-160% the performance...
But what if they surprise us and create something that really competes with it??
When talking about drivers and having experienced both id say i like ati drivers more...
And i say im not gunna waste more than 200 for a card like i did with the 2900XT, its not like there where any cheaper decent card back then, but wasting over 300 i was out of my mind, then i wasted more 200 on 8800GTS G92 but sold for 150 and bought the hd4850 i have now for 180, i had finally done a good deal...
If the next hd5850 is under 200, count me in for a custom one...
I dont think ill side with the green side any more...