Nvidia Next Gen GPU Identified? Nvidia G70

[Shifra]

Cut from the .INF file of a 75.10 beta driver.

NVIDIA_NV44.DEV_0160.1 = "NVIDIA NV44"
NVIDIA_NV44.DEV_0161.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce 6200 TurboCache(TM)"
NVIDIA_NV44.DEV_0162.1 = "NVIDIA NV44 "
NVIDIA_NV44.DEV_0163.1 = "NVIDIA NV44 "
NVIDIA_NV44.DEV_0165.1 = "NVIDIA Quadro NVS 285"
NVIDIA_NV44.DEV_016E.1 = "NVIDIA NV44GL"
NVIDIA_NV44.DEV_0220.1 = "NVIDIA NV44 "
NVIDIA_NV44.DEV_0221.1 = "NVIDIA NV44 "
NVIDIA_NV44.DEV_0222.1 = "NVIDIA NV44 "
NVIDIA_G70.DEV_0090.1 = "NVIDIA G70"
NVIDIA_G70.DEV_0091.1 = "NVIDIA G70 "
NVIDIA_G70.DEV_0092.1 = "NVIDIA G70 "
NVIDIA_G70.DEV_0093.1 = "NVIDIA G70 "
NVIDIA_G70.DEV_0094.1 = "NVIDIA G70 "
NVIDIA_G70.DEV_009D.1 = "NVIDIA G70GL"
NVIDIA_G70.DEV_009E.1 = "NVIDIA G70GL "
NVIDIA_NV48.DEV_0210.1 = "NVIDIA NV48"
NVIDIA_NV48.DEV_0211.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce 6800 "
NVIDIA_NV48.DEV_0212.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce 6800 LE "
NVIDIA_NV48.DEV_0215.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT "
NVIDIA_BR02.DEV_00F0.1 = "NVIDIA Device ID 0x00F0"
NVIDIA_BR02.DEV_00F1.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT "
NVIDIA_BR02.DEV_00F2.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce 6600 "
NVIDIA_BR02.DEV_00F3.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce 6200 "
NVIDIA_BR02.DEV_00F8.1 = "NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400/4400"
NVIDIA_BR02.DEV_00F9.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Series GPU"
NVIDIA_BR02.DEV_00FA.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5750"
NVIDIA_BR02.DEV_00FB.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5900"

Interesting the NV48 is listed, wonder what that will appear as if anything at all. Very odd Nvidia changed its GPU identification as well. I personally did not like the NV40 core, and i really do hope this is completely different from that core. Personal experiances with requring bios flashing, farcry and EQ2 stuttering, and graphical oddities in HL2. Makes me think twice as i was quite sure i would be heading the way of R520.

Source:
http://www.the-inquirer.com/?article=21409

 

[ohnnyj]

The G70 sounds like a Quadro update. And as for nVidia's next generation, I am hoping they put some of that Cell tech they have access to from Sony into it. A Cell based GPU, that's where it's at.

 

[Calis]

yeah, id say its probably support for the quatro or the like

 

[pxc]

Naw, it's a new chip. And the NV48 is simple to explain: theinq was wrong when they said it was cancelled. It's just an optimized die shrink (110nm) anyways with native PCI-E support. http://www.digitimes.com/mobos/a20041220A7039.html

%NVIDIA_G70.DEV_0090.1%  = nv4_NV3x,                 PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0090
%NVIDIA_G70.DEV_0091.1%  = nv4_NV3x,                 PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0091
%NVIDIA_G70.DEV_0092.1%  = nv4_NV3x,                 PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0092
%NVIDIA_G70.DEV_0093.1%  = nv4_NV3x,                 PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0093
%NVIDIA_G70.DEV_0094.1%  = nv4_NV3x,                 PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0094
%NVIDIA_G70.DEV_009D.1%  = nv4_WSApps_NV3x,          PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_009D
%NVIDIA_G70.DEV_009E.1%  = nv4_WSApps_NV3x,          PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_009E
%NVIDIA_NV48.DEV_0210.1% = nv4_NV3x,                 PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0210
%NVIDIA_NV48.DEV_0211.1% = nv4_NV3x,                 PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0211
%NVIDIA_NV48.DEV_0212.1% = nv4_NV3x,                 PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0212
%NVIDIA_NV48.DEV_0215.1% = nv4_NV3x,                 PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0215

(the nv4_NV3x install section is common to all cards FX and higher)

The numbering of the device ID is rolled back to before the NV11. This is pretty interesting. I wonder if nvidia will "preview" the next generation card when ATI introduces the R520 soon. Those crazy kids.

 

[Trepidati0n]

The G70 sounds like a Quadro update. And as for nVidia's next generation, I am hoping they put some of that Cell tech they have access to from Sony into it. A Cell based GPU, that's where it's at.

Nah, they won't. That would require programmers to learn a whole new style of programming for games. As you well know that the corporate mongers who run game companies will not do anything that will inhibit them from getting a new car for their 3 year old daughter. Sorry..forgot to turn of sarcasm this morning.

-tReP

 

[Shifra]

Nah, they won't. That would require programmers to learn a whole new style of programming for games. As you well know that the corporate mongers who run game companies will not do anything that will inhibit them from getting a new car for their 3 year old daughter. Sorry..forgot to turn of sarcasm this morning.

-tReP

Certainly isnt needed either. Not going to be for a long long time.

 

[ohnnyj]

Nah, they won't. That would require programmers to learn a whole new style of programming for games. As you well know that the corporate mongers who run game companies will not do anything that will inhibit them from getting a new car for their 3 year old daughter. Sorry..forgot to turn of sarcasm this morning.

-tReP

Well they are going to have to do something since there is a limit to how much you can shrink this stuff and up the clock speeds. Take a look at the CPUs, that is why they are switching to dual core, so I don't think mulicore GPUs are too far fetched.

 

[Steel Chicken]

Nah, they won't. That would require programmers to learn a whole new style of programming for games.
-tReP

not necessarily. they (GPU designers) could incorporate some of the cool things cell does, and then *they* would have to modify the drivers to process the directX or opengl calls in the appropriate manner. will they bother? I doubt it, but its possible.