G71 Will have 32 Pipes and 16ROP's

[chris_ah1]

Update:

G71, now the 7900, the GTX model will have a clockspeed in the range 700-750MHz GPU and 1600-1800MHz GDDR3 memory.

This leaves us with the new generation shaping up like this:

Radeon X1900 with 48 pixel shader processors, 16 TMUs and 16 ROPs clocked at up to 650MHz or GeForce 7900 with 32 pixel processors, 32 TMUs and 16 ROPs clocked at up to 750MHz.

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as said earlier, they might just pip the ATI on sheer grunt alone :S

However, it seems that ATIs have always taken less of a performance penalty with eye candy so maybe g71 grunt won't be enough once you start fiddling with the IQ settings?

 

[scorchio]

A little update

There will be 2 versions the GeForce 7900 GTX 512MB and the GeForce 7900 256MB. The GeForce 7900 GTX should be launched on 9th of March while the GeForce 7900 GT will be launched later on 20th March most likely together with the GeForce 7600 series. There are little information about the pipelines and clock speeds yet. The current rumours implied a 32 pipes G71 so if that is true, 7900 GT could be 24 pipes. We overheard a yield issue that leads to the delay so it could probably meant a high core clock or too many pipelines causing the problem.

 

[maverik-sg1]

A little update

There will be 2 versions the GeForce 7900 GTX 512MB and the GeForce 7900 256MB. The GeForce 7900 GTX should be launched on 9th of March while the GeForce 7900 GT will be launched later on 20th March most likely together with the GeForce 7600 series. There are little information about the pipelines and clock speeds yet. The current rumours implied a 32 pipes G71 so if that is true, 7900 GT could be 24 pipes. We overheard a yield issue that leads to the delay so it could probably meant a high core clock or too many pipelines causing the problem.

Think this needs to be in the G71 page LOL

It was fully taped out in January, engineering samples provided to partners already landed and PCB assembly for production has already begun - I think one of the issues the process brings with it is a yield issue but Nvidia were keen to launch (SKU Launch not a paper one) at CeBit which (funnily enough) starts 9th March.

The aim is to have 10-15k units of the flagship product available worldwide on launch day.