AMD GPUs on 65nm, and NVIDIA's on 80nm

Friday 19th January 2007, 12:12:00 PM, written by Arun

According to Digitimes, AMD and NVIDIA are about to increase their orders at TSMC for 65nm and 80nm, as they prepare to introduce RV610/RV630 (65nm) and G84/G86 (80nm). We can confirm that those are indeed the process nodes to be used for these products, but we have not yet been able to verify the timeframes mentioned by Digitimes.

Generally speaking, the latest cutting-edge process costs more per mm² (but often less per transistor anyway) and has lower yields, but compensates by having lower power dissipation per transistor and higher maximum clock rates. So, even excluding the differences in architectures, it'll be interesting to watch how the two companies' process decisions will play out in the coming months.

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