Only GeForce 4 Ti refresh in fall

[sbp]

Its looking that Nvidia will be coming out with a just GeForce 4 Ti refresh in the fall. Basically the NV28. It appears the move to .13 micron is a pain, for TSMC {the foundry Nvidia and ATI both use} and others.

http://www.penstarsys.com
"The NV-28 will be the fall refresh of the GeForce 4 core. The main addition is that of AGP 8X, other than that we can perhaps expect some core speed improvements (perhaps up to 330 MHz) along with faster memory (probably around 700 MHz DDR)."

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,286670,00.asp
Nvidia NV30: too late for Christmas rush? (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=3845)

Also yields of R300 will not be high and it will cost much money. I really doubt the R300 will be clocked at 350Mhz. If Matrox released Parhelia with 80 Million transistors at 220Mhz, then the R300 is going to be harder to do with 107 million transistors.

[Bires]

From what I hear the Parhelia isn't all its hype is. The Kyro II went through the same thing...

Hype: Greatest card for gaming! Tons of features for 3D graphics and antialiasing!

The card went retail: Benchmarks near the last generation of cards. Driver problems make this card incompatible with a number of games tested.

The GF4 Ti cards are a work of art already, a faster core will make them that much better (and further drive down the prices of the current Ti cards).

[xsiled2]

hype! thats not hype its great anything that will allow my to get a gf4 TI at gf3 ti 200 prices is great :D

[Speedfreak]

Originally posted by xsiled2
hype! thats not hype its great anything that will allow my to get a gf4 TI at gf3 ti 200 prices is great :D

Exactly. Competition is good.

[Cantacuzene]

Good old hype, nothing beats hype.