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by **hitznrunz** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 10:47 am

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Nvidia has unofficially confirmed some hardware specs of its upcoming NV40 chip and it is quite possible that the winner of the next round of the graphics war may have already been decided.
According to the company, its new chip will feature a full 16 pipelines, not the 8x2 set-up which had been expected. This change means that Nvidia's new GPU will have a staggering 205-210 million transistors and not the expected 175 million.

It seems that ATI's inexperience at this game may have gotten the best of them since they had been eager to claim that their R420 would beat Nvidia in, at least, 10 common games. These claims however, were made based on Nvidia using the predicted 175 million transistors, information which ATI had and was obviously flawed.

Recent gossip from the Intel Developer Forum did claim that Nvidia had an ace up their sleeve and it would appear that it has slipped it out. The timing of the announcement was careful so ATI could not respond with a change in hardware, even though the NV40 has slipped by a month.

This latest news adds another exciting chapter in the epic battle between the two companies and no one is foolish enough to write ATI off quite yet. The Canadian firm has so far proved that it can match its rival move for move.

by **shockwave203** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 12:05 pm

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=1656&p=24

Based on the current specs of NV30, believe it or not, it will be faster than the Radeon 9700

This look familiar? we all know how untrue that turned out to be.

we'll have to wait and see

by **Major SONAR** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 12:07 pm

hmm.. I wonder how much of that is true and how much is PR BS? Many times these companies tout their products as being highly superior to their competitor's, and when the product finally ships it is only slightly superior. I'm sure Nvidia will have a good product either way.

In any event, we the consumers will be the ones who benefit from competition.

by **JimmyTango** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 12:52 pm

It sounds like rumors to me. No one will know which will be the better of the two until they are both released.

Why would anyone care about a rumor?

by **RCinator** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 2:35 pm

I still have a hard time finding a positive side to any compnay that would release a dual-slot graphics card . . . Some of us need all of our PCI slots

by **LordShard** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 9:34 pm

Hmm, I remember them saying before the Nvidia FX and radeon 9800 came out that they would be many times faster than the nearest video card only 1 generation old. Sounds like BS to me. AT most it will have some new optmizations maybe a few million more transotiors and a faster clock speed. Same old same old

by **shockwave203** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 9:51 pm

Originally posted by LordShard
Hmm, I remember them saying before the Nvidia FX and radeon 9800 came out that they would be many times faster than the nearest video card only 1 generation old. Sounds like BS to me. AT most it will have some new optmizations maybe a few million more transotiors and a faster clock speed. Same old same old

no, the new cards will be considerably faster than the R3xx series (9700, 9800 etc)

it's a next gen card, meaning the layout is completely different. It should be like the 9700pro was a step up above the Geforce 4's. Big time speed increases. Some people are saying that the R420 will be 30% faster than the 9800XT, but it's all rumours right now.

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