Rumor: All Nvidia GPUs to Transition to 40nm in 2009
Rumor: All Nvidia GPUs to Transition to 40nm in 2009
Posted 12/29/2008 at 9:46am
| by Paul Lilly
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News and review site VR-Zone claims to have seen documents outlining Nvidia's plan to move to a 40nm process technology on its entire lineup of upcoming videcards starting in Q2 2009. On the high-end side, that includes the GT212 GPU, expected to debut in Q2 and replace the 55nm GT200, meaning a relatively short lifespan for the not yet released GTX285 and GTX295 videocards.
On the mainstream level, both VR-Zone and DigiTimes are reporting the launch of 40nm-based GT214 and GT216 GPUs in Q3 2009, which will replace the current G94 and G96 chips. Fleshing out the lineup will be four desktop SKUs for the GT216 and six desktop SKUs for the GT218, presumably representing different clockspeed and memory configurations.
Looking at the entry level, Nvidia's 40nm GT218 will supplant the company's G98 GPU, also in Q3 2009. Meanwhile, Nvidia's IGP line will see the launch of the iGT209, which is set to replace the GeForce 9300 and 9400 motherboard GPU series.
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Keith E. Whisman
December 29, 2008 at 10:32am
Looks like happy times are instore for everyone that passes up a generation or two. I'm just really happy that when my SLI setup containing two 640mb 8800GTS video cards become incapable of high res game play I'll have alot of super highend graphics cards to choose from.
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