Graphics card maker NVIDIA has the most powerful graphics circuit of today with its GT200 GPU. While powerful it is not the most up to date chip as AMD has incorporated newer technology, but while waiting for the first DirectX 11 GPU, NVIDIA has several big shipments coming. First of all, its first 40nm circuit, G210, for the desktop market will start shipping to OEMs next month, while bigger brother GT220 will hit stores in August.
Availability of the new circuits we recently reported on will depend on the production capacity at TSMC, which so far looks pretty slim considering the only 40nm circuit available today, Radeon HD 4770, is real hard to find in stock.
About the same time in the third quarter NVIDIA will take another step toward closing the technology advantage gap to AMD, as it will launch its first graphics circuits with GDDR5 memory. As expected it will not be the low-end G210 or (kind of) mid-range GT220 that gets the honor, but instead it will be NVIDIA’s first mobile 40nm circuit. The mobile 40nm GPUs will launch together with Intel’s new Calpella platform for notebooks.
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