When French associates reported NVIDIA intentions for the card GeForce 7100 GS on base of the old 0.11 m chip NV44, this caused an indignation of potential buyers. analogous actions from ATI side also could caused such irritation, but Canadian company adequately reduced the prices of its renamed cards, whereas for video card of series GeForce 6200 TC and GeForce 7100 gs they can not becaume cheaper .
American site yesterday reported that video card GeForce 7100 gs will based on the the new 0.09 m chip G72, which, will hade the previous four pixel shader pipe. The frequency of chip G72 will be equal to 350 MHz, the memory width bus will be equal to 64 bits. The support of technologies TurboCache, SLI and PureVideo will be preserved. In a word, appearance of GeForce 7100 gs is profitable faster for producers, than to buyers: first this will reduce the cost, and second the new card designed will hardly get a small improvement in the overclocking potential.
By the way, the upper price for GeForce 7100 gs is established at level $100. we hope that the given by American associates information about characteristics of the GeForce 7100 gs was reliable, and under this name to buyers will be proposed sufficiently contemporary product. However, French associates, incorrectly interpreted the words of Asus representatives about the forthcoming replacement of NV44 on GeForce 7100 gs. In sale viedo card GeForce 7100 gs can appeare in first half of September.