Appeared at the end of last week photograph with the standard video card on base of video chip NVIDIA G80 made many question.
From other data, obtained simultaneously with the photographs,it follows to mention the presence of memory type Gddr-4 on this video card . its arrangement in the form letters "P" allows to assume that G80 will use the 384- bit memory access instead of the traditional 256- bit. Cooling system of G80, judging by the represented photographs, can have two design : Mod (liquid + air) and purely air. .
Today known Taiwan site with the reference to local producers reported that announcement of G80 will consists in the middle of November this year. Video card will obtain the design of "GeForce 8800" and support DirectX 10. Associates consider that such video card will get their popularity related to the accessibility degree of the operating system Windows vista and games witch will support API. As it is known, without Windows vista we cannot work with DirectX 10. From this point it is not considered the fact that G80 can work also with DirectX 9.0c. thus far the use of the unfield shader architecture by chip G80 was not proven.
Taiwan producers expressed doubts about the release possibility of the competing video chip R600 from ATI in the present year. Associates report that chip R600 will have 500 mln. transistors - their contribution to the formation of this number made support of DirectX 10 and unfield shader architecture. British associates are assured that R600 will be faster in both DirectX 10 and in DirectX 9.0c. moreover, the close relations between ATI and Microsoft can give the first advantage in the sphere of drivers optimization .