14 DAY TRIAL // Just when you though that Nvidia has grown tired of rebranding their video cards and calling them the next big thing in computer graphics there comes a news that lets us know Nvidia is up to their old tricks again, the graphics chip maker preparing to launch the GF119 core at CES along with no less than eight new mobile rebrands based on this core.
Although originally Nvidia planned for the GF119 to come as a 32nm die shrink of the GF108, TSMC canceled its 32nm manufacturing technology, so Nvidia decided to go with just a bug-fixed version of the GF108 on 40nm (same manufacturing process as before).
SemiAccurte reports there are actually two ASICs, labeled GF119-ES-B-A1 and GF119-ES-S-A1, and although we don't actually know what the differences between the two will one can assume that one of the cores will come with GDDR3 memory support while the other will feature GDDR3 memory.
According to SemiAccurate, Nvidia will also announce eight “new” mobile parts based on the GF119 core during CES, all making part of the N12 family.
Just as the GeForce GT 540M that was released just a the other day, these too are expected to be just slight higher clocked versions of the 400 mobile graphics series, the top of the line offerings being the N12E-GTX and -BE-B.
The GTX will be dubbed the GTX580M while the -GE-B is currently slated to be called the GT555M, the parts being listed at 70W and 35W, respectively.
Moving down in performance we have the N12P line that comes in the -GT, -GS, -GE, and -GP/LV versions, these being slated to be called the 550M, 540M, 525M and 520M, respectively.
All of the N12P offering will carry the GT prefix and their TDP is rated at, from top to bottom, 35W, 35W, 25W and 17W.
Last in line is the N12M line that has two different 15W parts that should have been called the 410M and the 315M, although Nvidia will probably rename these in order to reflect their membership to the 500 series chip family.
End of it all, it definitely seems like Nvidia is up to its old tricks again, the company pricing these chips absurdly low in order to regain lost marketshare.