Bloomfield + SLI = posible & GT200 55nm saldra varias semanas despues de la R700

Industry sources indicate that NVIDIA has acquired a QPI license to
manufacture desktop core-logic (chipset) for the upcoming Nehalem-based
processors. NVIDIA looks at a quick-fix solution to offer SLI support
for the upcoming LGA-1366 motherboards. It's too late for them to
prepare a full-fledged chipset since X58 is dressing up to go to office
and that's slated for as early as Q4, 2008. The quick-fix solution is
that NVIDIA offers a certain chip that can be used on X58 motherboards
that allows those boards to support NVIDIA SLI. This solution is in
many respects similar to the Intel D5400XS "Skulltrail" board, where
two NForce 200 (BR-04) chips were used alongside the Intel 5400A
northbridge that allowed 2-way SLI. The NVIDIA BR-04 chip costs US $30
for motherboard manufacturers.

As for Lynnfield, NVIDIA will try to debut a full-fledged LGA-1160
motherboard since there is ample time to work on that. The quick-fix
ensures that when LGA-1366 X58 does come out, and NVIDIA doesn't have a
chipset ready, the advantage of multi-GPU doesn't go to ATI since X58
supports ATI Crossfire and is already touted to support 4-way ATI
Crossfire X technology. LGA-1160 boards lack QuickPath interconnect as
a chipset bus. Since NVIDIA lacks access to QuickPath technology, it
can continue to use its competitive HyperTransport link which it's been
using since the NForce 2 days.

Don't expect too many of these SLI LGA 1366 boards soon though. Reason
being that each BR-04 chip costs $30, requires motherboard makers to
re-design their motherboards (since most vendors seem to be ready with
their X58 board designs), and a redesign would push back entry by a few
months (for release of these SLI supportive boards).

We've learned that Nvidia might be ready with its 55nm
version of GT200 sooner than we expected. GT200 55nm might come out weeks after
Radeon HD 4870 X2 aka R700 dual chip card.



Nvidia taped out the 55nm GT200 a few months back and we believe
that launching 65nm version first made more financial sense for them as they
wanted to probe the market and see if ATI actually has a decent chip to
compare.

We don’t have any fixed dates but the GT200 55nm might show up
very soon. GT200 with some higher clock and especially higher Shader clock could
easily give much more performance compared to a standard 65nm GT200. Let's wait
and see.

MaxHardware escribió: Pero yo no sé ingles, dime que dice