Sparkle is definitely sparkling this week as it has rolled out Nvidia’s first 80nm graphics card. Nvidia previously announced the Go series 7700 which is running a 80nm chip for the notebook segment.

The new 80 nanometer parts will end up clocked at 650MHz which is 90MHz faster than the current 7600 GT clock. We know the chip behind it is G73 but we don’t know what Nvidia calls the new 80 nanometer versions. The memory on Sparkle card works at 1600MHz and Nvidia hasn’t changed the chip memory support as it still works with 128 bit memory only. The card comes with 256MB memory and has twelve rendering pipelines. It supports PCIe 16X interface.

80nm means less power and more horsepower Let’s see when the flagship graphic cards start to make the change.

Source: The Inquirer

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