Here's an interesting article posted by John Smith over at The Inquirer.net called NV40 will give Nvidia performance lead by year end! It's well worth the read.
This is where we see pricing and technology from ATI and Nvidia for their family of products close to the end of this year and the beginning of next year.
ATI
Up to $400 - R9900 family on R350 with DDRII memory Up to $300 - R9800 family on R350 Up to $200 - R9600 family on RV350 Up to $100 - R9200 family based on RV280 (still DX8 chip)
Nvidia
Up to $400 - NV40 - probably we see it, as a Christmas present. Up to $300 - NV35 256 bit DDR + twice the floating power of NV30 Up to $200 - NV36 the true half of NV35 Up to $100 - NV34 in a lot of different core/memory speeds (DX9!)
The NV40 DX9 chip will have PS/VS 3.0 functionality and sophisticated OpenGL 2.0 fragment shading capabilities. 8х1 (only) plain architecture with two universal floating/integer ALU and one TMU on each pipe. So no more sophisticated schemes like 4х2 or 8х1 depending on the application, only raw power.
For more info warp2 Inquirer.net.
This is where we see pricing and technology from ATI and Nvidia for their family of products close to the end of this year and the beginning of next year.
ATI
Up to $400 - R9900 family on R350 with DDRII memory Up to $300 - R9800 family on R350 Up to $200 - R9600 family on RV350 Up to $100 - R9200 family based on RV280 (still DX8 chip)
Nvidia
Up to $400 - NV40 - probably we see it, as a Christmas present. Up to $300 - NV35 256 bit DDR + twice the floating power of NV30 Up to $200 - NV36 the true half of NV35 Up to $100 - NV34 in a lot of different core/memory speeds (DX9!)
The NV40 DX9 chip will have PS/VS 3.0 functionality and sophisticated OpenGL 2.0 fragment shading capabilities. 8х1 (only) plain architecture with two universal floating/integer ALU and one TMU on each pipe. So no more sophisticated schemes like 4х2 or 8х1 depending on the application, only raw power.
For more info warp2 Inquirer.net.
