by Anna Filatova
06/13/2002 | 12:44 PM
This Chinese site shared with us some info on the number of transistors in the upcoming NV30 from NVIDIA and R300 from ATI graphics chips. at first sight the numbers look pretty credible I should say: 120 million and 107 million respectively, which crowns NVIDIA as the developer of the largest graphics chips ever. These data correlates pretty OK with the rumors about the expected specifications for both chips: R300 is expected to feature 8 rendering pipelines with 2 TMUs on each, while in case of NV30 8 rendering pipelines will be equipped with 4 TMUs each and the T&L unit will be moved to the companion chip (see this news story).
Of course, both chips still have a lot to do to catch up with the champion, Intel’s 64bit Itanium (McKinley) baby with a core composed of 221 million transistors (see this news story).