dhgunit
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You beat me to this. But the specs are not possible, nor realistic. For them to double the shaders 1 of 2 things would have to happen. The manufacturing process would have to shrink, it didnt, it still says 55nm. Or 2, they would have to double the size of the die. Considering how huge the chip is right now, theres no way in **** they are going to double the die size. This is yet more FUD. The way competition is right now, i really dont see Nvidia doing much other than trying to get the 40nm processing worked out so they can actually make a decent profit off of their cards.
I would bet money you are wrong. It is going to be a 40nm process......the information in the first post is not accurate. I don't even know why it says "GTX 350". I highly doubt they have named the cards yet.
And there will not be 480 shaders. There will be 512 shaders. This is a COMPLETELY different architecture.
"GT300 packs 512 MIMD-capable cores and yet it uses "just" one billion transistors extra. I'll be first to admit that I wondered how GT300 packs at least three billion transistors, but according to our highly confidential source, the 2.4 billion transistors are packed in just 495mm2.
Yes, you've read that correctly. 2.4 billion in less than 500mm2 will put sweat on both ATI and Intel's forehead, since this chip could be profitably manufactured and yet pack performance to potentially blew the competition out of the water. Each of original 65nm GT200 chips took 576mm2 of wafer space, while 55nm refresh GT206/GT200b eats up 490mm2.
In comparison, Intel's high-end Larrabee part is manufactured in 45nm and takes around 600mm2."
nVidia's GT300 is "smaller, faster than Larrabee"? - Bright Side Of News*
nVidia's GT300 specifications revealed - it's a cGPU! - Bright Side Of News*