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NV20 Specs or Rumors?

by Anna Filatova
01/14/2001 | 10:16 AM

There appeared an interesting post on the upcoming NV20 from NVIDIA in our discussion board. Namely, the specs of the notorious NV20 chip:

Fabrication Process: 0.15 or 0.13-micron
Transistors in the Core: 30~50 million
Rendering Pipelines: 4
Texture Units per Pipeline: 3
Core Speed: 300MHz
Memory Speed: 250MHz (DDR)
Memory Bandwidth: 8G/sec
Pixel Fill Rate: 1200 million-pixels/sec
Texel Fill Rate: 3600 million-texels/sec
Triangles Processing Speed: 150 million-triangles/sec

You may find the original post here.
Well, the specs look just like what we have expected. The only doubtful item is the manufacturing technology. Even 0.15 micron sounds somewhat unrealistic, because TSMC, where NVIDIA manufactures its chips, isn’t yet ready for mass production with this technology. As far as the core size goes, it is promised to be almost twice as big as that of GeForce2 GTS, that’s why the heat dissipation should be really incredibly high.
Anyway, these are just rumors and speculations. The true specs will be known in February, when NVIDIA finally raises the curtain of mystery over its new wonder – NV20.

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