NV35

[interman]

I heard some rumours a few days ago about the upcoming NV35's specs, and it seems nice.

-0.13 micrometer process.
-DDR(1) ram, instead of DDR2 which was previously expected.
-256-bit DDR(1) memory interface.
-400 MHz ram and GPU frequency.
-Same "feature-set" as NV30.
-At least twice as fast 1.4/2.0 pixelshaders as NV30
-1.5 to 2 times the performence of NV30. (yeah right)
-Will definitely be faster than Radeon 9800 Pro.
-400 MHz RAMDAC
-Models with 256mb ram will be introduced.
-Price is unknown, but the NV35 will be a lot cheaper to make than NV30.

The question is, will NV35 be another "flop" ?

[Doug]

I was originally going to get a NV30, but seeing how the performance is on a par, sometimes better, sometimes worse than the ATI card I am going to wait for the NV35. The feature set sounds great and I'm pretty sure will be a contender for the throne of fastest card on the market... time will tell as the R350 (think that's the right model, my head's a mess right now) is coming out soon too and may provide some competition for the NV35.

Doug.

[Irs2k3]

NVIDIA does not want to show the rivals any exact performance figures of the NV35, but wants its partners and investors to realise that the forthcoming chip will definitely be a lot better than the current.
NVIDIA again has problems with achieving high frequencies of the graphics processor itself, or there are problems with the current revision of the PCB. Problems with the GPU are in general more likely than problems with PCB.

NV35-based graphics card were demonstrated behind the closed doors at CeBIT 2003 in Hannover, Germany.
NVIDIA set the core and memory frequencies of the GeForce FX 5800-based graphics card also at 250/500MHz
According to a German site, NV35 was able to render 110fps in Quake III Arena (demo 001) at 1600x1200 with 4x FSAA and 8x Anisotropic Filtering, while the NV30 only achieved 48fps in the benchmark. The Achilles’ hill of the current GeForce FX 5800 is its 128-bit bus, what seems to be the reason why the NV30 is outperformed by the NV35 that features 256-bit memory bus by roughly 130% in some cases. Since we have no information about performance scalability of the NV30 and NV35 graphics processors we can hardly draw a precise conclusion right now, however, I can state for sure that the NV35-based graphics cards will be a lot more powerful and efficient compared to the current NV30.

Will it be faster then the R350? time will tell...