NVIDIA’s NV43 Graphics Processor Showcased

A web-site has posted pictures of a chip with “NV43” mark on it, possibly indicating that NVIDIA’s long-awaited performance-mainstream graphics processor has been implemented in silicon. The wire said the chip had been obtained from a Chinese graphics cards maker.

According to some sources, the NV43 will be a performance-mainstream part offered by NVIDIA Corporation in its lineup to be unveiled this Fall. The graphics processing unit is likely to contain 8 or 12 pixel pipelines and offer slightly lower performance compared to today’s GeForce 6800 GPU.