GRAPHIC PROCESSOR NV 30 EXHIBITION AT COMDEX FALL 2002
Available online newspaper reviewers were Inquirer preliminary specifications of the new chip. According to the Inquirer, NV30, was manufactured on 0.13 micron technology, will operate with a clock frequency of 400 MHz or higher. Chip, which consists of 125 million transistors, the protocol provides a graphical AGP 8x, DDR video memory with 128-bit bus, and in the future - DDR II, running at 500 MHz or 1 GHz with a 256-bit bus. The chip has eight rendering pipelines, two texture units (one more than the ATI Radeon 9700 Pro) and is able to work with the 64 - and 128-bit color.
The processor supports API DirectX 9.0.
According to the Inquirer, the NV30 at work in a system with a powerful CPU, will be able to type in the test 3dmarks 2001 SE from 20,000 to 22,000 points. New chip rate when tested Quake 3 is 2.5 times higher than GeForce TI 4600, when tested in Doom 3 - 3.5 times higher. It is expected that the performance of the new processor will be about 30 percent higher than the Radeon 9700 Pro.
As reported by one of the correspondents online publication Warp2search.net, the new chip will be called GeForce FX.
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