G80 Specs Leaked

Some specs for the coming nVidia flagship G80 cards were released on VR-Zone and quickly removed. Details of what were released are:

• Unified Shader Architecture
• Support FP16 HDR+MSAA
• Support GDDR4 memories
• Close to 700M transistors (G71 - 278M / G70 - 302M)
• New AA mode: VCAA
• Core clock scalable up to 1.5GHz
• Shader performance: 2x Pixel/12x Vertex over G71
• 8 TCPs & 128 stream processors
• Much more efficient than traditional architecture
• 384-bit memory interface (256-bit+128-bit)
• 768MB memory size (512MB+256MB)

"TCP" may stand for "Thread Control Processor".

The G80 is expected to become available in November and will be available in the GeForce 8800 GTX and the GeForce 8800 GT. According to the same leaked information these cards will cost approximately USD 649 and USD 449-499 respectively.

The GTX will feature a 384-bit memory interface, a hybrid water and air cooler and 7 TCPs while the GT will have a 320-bit memory interface, a standard air cooler, and 6 TCPs.

The G80 cards should be the first line of nVidia's DX10 video cards.