NVIDIA Goes 80nm

HKEPC reports NVIDIA will be releasing its new G73-B1 graphics core in September. G73-B1 is NVIDIA’s first 80nm product and set to take on ATI’s upcoming Radeon X1650 family of graphics cards. NVIDIA is expected to launch two variants of G73-B1. One variant will be a standard die shrink of the G73 core and fully pin compatible with current PCBs. It appears G73-B1 will be passively cooled like current 7600GS graphics cards. There’s no word on the core clock of G73-B1 cards yet.

The sample card has a rather strange cooler, but the jump to 80mm is what’s important. Hopefully we will be seeing even small fab processes in the near future… such as 65nm.