GeForce GTX470/480 Die Shots Exposed
The Chinese-language NGA forum has just leaked the die shots of NVIDIA GeForce GTX470/GTX480, and according to the post, the die size would measure 23mm*23mm, which is 529 square millimeters.
Rumors ever had it that the die of GeForce GTX470 is codenamed GF100-275-A3, so we have reason to believe the GF100-375-A3 shown in following pictures is the die of GeForce GTX480.
March 16th, 2010 at 2:27 pm
I’d be making a fine sword on that furnace
March 16th, 2010 at 4:23 pm
Individually numbered dice. That just spells “mass production” to me…
March 17th, 2010 at 7:28 am
For me the missing numbers tells me how many discarded dies it is from a wafer.
March 17th, 2010 at 2:50 pm
A discarded die from a wafer wouldn’t make it to a PCB and under the IHS’, a higher leakage sample however would. Not that I’m saying any of the sort, I don’t believe there is enough evidence either way.
March 17th, 2010 at 5:38 pm
Those N10E-GLM small cores are actually GT215 40nm cores, FAIL.
July 22nd, 2010 at 9:16 am
@necroman FAIL!
This is what a GT215 40nm core looks like: http://www.legitreviews.com/images/reviews/1192/Core.jpg
While the picture here is too poor to make it clear unequivocally what it actually is, it’s pretty clear that there is at least a ‘100′ on the chip.