Nvidia already producing 55nm GT200
Silent hill
Nvidia’s CEO, Jensen, said it in the last Q3 conference call, Marvin Burkett, the CFO confirmed it, and we still had to go out and try to find if the 55nm production process they mentioned was about G92b or GT200 55nm.
Well, now we can finally say that in Q4 Nvidia plans to ship many GT200 55nm CPUs and it looks like they will silently replace the old 65nm parts.
Most new GTX 260 with 216 Shaders and upcoming GTX 280 will be based on the new 55nm chips, but it looks that Nvidia does have a plan to increase the speed on the new products. Retail products based on 55nm chips are yet to be shipped, but we expect them in early December.
We believe that the new SKUs should overclock much better than the previous ones and with the current prices, they will certainly put a lot of pressure on Radeon HD 4870 X2 and HD 4870 and it looks that Nvidia is not finished yet. What started as an insanely slow Q4 for every market segment is turning in a rather interesting finish.
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70 percent of GT200 in Q4 are 55nm
The rest is 65nm
We've told you that Nvidia said to its investors and the rest of the world that they are shipping 55nm in volume, but we were surprised to learn that Nvidia expects that more than 70 percent of GT200 chips shipped in Q4 to be 55nm.
Nvidia plans to do this quietly, as it doesn’t plan to change the specification of the existing GTX 260 216 Shaders and GTX 280 cards. Nvidia counts on the Jack in the box effect and you might be surprised that the card you buy in December will come with a 55nm GT200 chip and likely overlclock better.
The 55nm chip will be a bit cooler and smaller, and the first cards based on them are expected in early December.
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