It's 9:00am CST, that means it is time to reveal all that info on the new NVidia chip right? Well here you go. The most important thing for you guys is the specs, and when is it coming out. Well they are shooting for a release in just a few weeks, (You never know, my guess is 4-5) and here are the specs:

- 15M triangles/sec - sustained DMA, transform/clip/light, setup, rasterize and render rate.
- 4 Pixels per clock (4 pixel pipelines)
- 480M pixels/sec fill rate - 32 texture samples per clock, full speed 8-tap anisotropic filtering.
- 8 hardware lights
- 350 MHz RAMDAC
-Most feature complete for DX7 and OGL - Tranform & Lighting, Cube environment mapping, projective textures, and texture compression.
- Will utilize 4x AGP performance with Fast Writes , which enables the CPU to send data directly to the GPU (1 GB/sec transfer rate), increasing overall performance and freeing the system memory bus for other functions.
- 256 bit rendering engine
- Highest quality HDTV (High Definition Television) video playback

The official name for the new 3D card is the GeForce 256. I'm guessing they were doing one of those "our card is so damn fast we can give it a horrible name and people will still buy it" tactic. Hope it works. I'll add to this story as more articles come out on the card. The Riva3D.com guys were the first to send word and they have quite a bit on it. Check out geforce.riva3d.com, then head over to the Tweak3D preview. Lastly you can check out the 3DGpu.com page which has quite a bit of info on the card.

Update from Marcus: Here's the Press Release if you're really itching for more. Though I don't know about you but all I'm itching for at the moment is a GF256.