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NV18 and NV28 Got Their Brand Names

by Anton Shilov
08/28/2002 | 02:03 PM

We receive more and more information indicating that there is not far to wait for the new graphics processors from NVIDIA code-named NV18 and NV28. This time the guys over Warp2Search web-site have not only leaked a new Detonator 31.00 driver, but also looked inside to find out brand names for the upcoming graphics chips from the Santa-Clara based developer.

As we told you a lot of time ago, NV18 and NV28 are just slightly updated versions of NVIDIA’s current line of GeForce4 products, so, do not expect them to be something mind-blowing. According to the source, the following products based on the cores mentioned will be introduced:


As you may notice, there are no GeForce4 Ti4400 and GeForce4 MX460 anymore. Both products are discontinued and soon will not be available. To tell you the truth, it is quite a logical step since the sales of these two were always affected by the GeForce4 Ti4200, thus, there is no sense for such devices to continue existence. Instead of the high-end GeForce4 MX460 graphics card, NVIDIA is going to introduce the so called “Special Edition” version of the GeForce4 MX440 equipped with 3.3ns BGA DDR SDRAM memory. It is quite easy to suspect that the new MX440 is practically the same thing like the old MX460. Except the price and AGP 8x, of course.<%BANNER[article]%>

What is noteworthy is that NVIDIA will change the brand names for its Quadro line of products, but remain the same names for its consumer solutions. It seems that manufacturers of graphics cards together with the GPU-maker do not want a lot of hype around the newcomers from the past, hence, I believe they will start quietly replacing its present solutions with the same graphics cards but with AGP 8x support.

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