NVidia NV11 / NV15 / NV20

Some more details on the next-gen NVidia NV11 and NV15 chipset video cards are popping up everywhere. You should have a look at the stuff at TheRegister as well as 3DHarware.net's CeBit report. (Thanks monkbent and j.p.)

Here are the NV15's key features. It will have a 135MHz 3D core, 333MHz memory clock (obviously DDR), transfom and lighting set-up and rendering, a 256-bit rendering engine, a 540 million pixels per second fill rate, and support up to 128MB

Most of the numbers being reported around the web are all just about in that area. Nothing is official from NVidia just yet but the last time specs were leaked early on the GeForce they came out to be fairly accurate. (Just dont believe NVidia about those best case fill rate claims, heh) The big question being when is it coming out? Not for a while, looks like 3dfx will be back on top with the Voodoo4 for at least a little while. update Jack - Or not. 3dfx made their Q4 earnings report (losing $34 million), and mentioned that they expect a similar loss for fiscal Q1. Reading between the lines, they expect that they won't be selling many V4/5's during fiscal Q1 (ending April for 3dfx). update Jack again - According to Yahoo Business, 3dfx CEO Dr. Alex Leupp said in his conference call today that "production wafers are in fabrication for the Voodoo(TM) 4 and Voodoo(TM) 5 family of products, and we believe that they are on track for shipment near the end of the FY 2001 first quarter." That would be the end of April. Oh, and check this out for some laughs.