Nvidia's 40nm GT212 to have 384 SPs GDDR5

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 01/06/2009 12:25 PM | source: | 0 comment(s)

Guru3D.com Image New rumors appeared on the web on NVIDIA follow-up flagship product to be released later this year. The website Hardware-Infos came up with a bucket load of technical specs on NVIDIA's upcoming flagship. It's the GT212 architecture based on 40nm

GT212 is the follow-up to 55nm GT200b (GeForce GTX 285) which is currently rolling into production. It entails a die shrink to a smaller fabrication process and interestingly enough, a decrease in memory interface width. But more on that in a minute.

See, the memory interface of GT212 will decrease from 512-bit on GT200 to 256-bit, however, Nvidia will plant Hynix 7Gbps GDDR5 on the GT212. One of the most interesting facts is a healthy increase in the Shader domain of the GPU. The shader processor count of GT212 will go from 240 in GT200 to 384, and the number of texture mapping units will increase from 80 to 96.

Due to all the changes the number of transistors could jump towards 1.8 billion. Interesting stuff.

Thanks Cowie, for submitting this one.

	GT200	GT200b	GT212
Geometry	65nm	55nm	40nm
Chip area	576mm2	470mm2	<300mm2
Transistors	1400M	1400M	<1800M
SPE's	240	240	384
Texture units	80	80	96
Memory interface	512b	512b	256b
Memory Type	GDDR3	GDDR3	GDDR5
Launch	Q2/08	Q4/08	Q2/09

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