February 9th, 2009

A striving for the 40nm GPU

NVIDIA_logo1AMD nVidia and ATi are planning imminent entry into 40nm process technology. Which of these will be the first? It is not known, but on the network, the first information about the first 40-nanometer nVidia system.

GT218 (because it is to be named the new product) is to be an arrangement of low-end and cards using the GPU is likely to be produced on lowprile PCB. The system is to have a thirty two-stream processors, TMU eight individuals and four entities ROP. The reference clock is 550 / 1375 / 1600MHz (GPU / Shaders / RAM). GT 218 cards are to have 512MB of RAM DDR3 on 64-bit bus.

Presented system is to be the successor GeForce 9300. Production is likely to start in the second quarter of this year.