Leaked Roadmap on NVIDIA’s Next High-End, GT212
You got it. A somewhat confidential roadmap got leaked to the Internet when ELSA brought their partners together to have an internal marketing meeting, promoting the new products of this fall.
As the roadmap indicates, NVIDIA will roll out a 9800GTX+ in Q3 of this year, and enhance it by the end of 2008. GTX260 will also receive a 55nm refreshment in Q4 08.
The most interesting part is the high-end margin, where GTX280 is slated to be replaced by a new chip codenamed GT212, which is signed 45nm, or 40nm. [So hard to tell from such a pic.]
Whatever, GT212 will be a new high-end card utilizing the most advanced manufacturing process NVIDIA is ever eligible to employ that will roll out to market in the first half of 2009.
However, judging from its GT prefix and NVIDIA’s recent naming strategy, GT212 doesn’t really seem to be the next king of graphics. Maybe there is something more.
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September 9th, 2008
It should be an early condename. When it got released, it should be named GTX 212
September 9th, 2008
I doubt NVIDIA is daring enough to again price this GT212 beyond 600 bucks. Given the fact it was placed in the same margin with GTX280, I highly doubt if this gotta be a second time NVIDIA slaped its own face.
September 9th, 2008
Want to know what ATI will bring to front. Usually, ATI will do better.
September 10th, 2008
Is the GT212 actually high end? Sometimes nVidia has released low end versions after coming out with the high end product. Has something to do with chip performance in testing. Like Intel’s processors, many new versions are lower performance (higher yield) chips culled out in manufacturing tests.
September 10th, 2008
This looks more like the Elsa (Japan) manufacturer’s product roadmap rather than nVidia’s.
September 10th, 2008
There is no wrong this is a roadmap leaked from a recent Elsa’s channel meeting, but considering ELSA’s parternership with NVIDIA and judging from the picture itself, it is very much the real roadmap of NVIDIA’s.
GT212 is placed in the same category with GTX280, which means they share the same rank, indicating it will be another high end chip.
If NVIDIA is going to release lower performance parts, it will just place them lower in design rank, as you can see with 9800+.
September 27th, 2008
“However, judging from its GT prefix and NVIDIA’s recent naming strategy, GT212 doesn’t really seem to be the next king of graphics. Maybe there is something more.”
Sounds unlikely – GT212 is the core name (like the GTX280′s core is actually GT200). Although on 40nm they’d probably stand a reasonable chance of a GX2 GT212 part.
July 22nd, 2009
I don’t agree with you.
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