Posts Tagged ‘55nm’
RV790: 55 nm Manufacturing Process
A lot has been said about ATI's RV790. Clues about the new gpu surfaced in the last November when was clear that AMD was working on a successor to the RV770. A german website, Hardware-Infos, reports that RV790 will be built on the newer improved 55 nm manufacturing process. The new gpu may get a little help from its superior silicon fabrication, foundry partner codename is 55GT, which makes it more expensive to manufacture. According to the source there are two RV790 engineering samples: a base model and an overclocked model. More »
Nvidia GT206, GT212, GT216 and GT300
GT2xx generation cards' life cycle is not over yet, the GT206 will be released in Q4 2008, presumably to cash in on the christmas shopping season. GT206, the last 55 nm cards, seems to be having problems with its shader domain, which has pushed its launch for that late. Following GT206, GT212 and GT216 would be Nvidia's entries to the 40nm silicon fabrication process, both will support GDDR5 memory on a broad memory bus. GT212 will be released in Q1 2009, GT216 in Q2 2009. More »
