Speaking to Digitimes, NVIDIA GM of MCP Business Drew Henry confirmed that improvements in TSMC’s 40nm process could pave the way for future GeForce GTX 400-series adapters with 512 cores.
“Nvidia does not comment on unannounced products; however, we have a chance to launch a graphics chip with 512 cores in the future,” Henry said, when asked about rumors that have attempted to explain why the 400 series shipped with a maximum of 480 cores instead of 512 as planned.
Henry also panned widespread criticism of the GF100’s power consumption, saying, “. . .We believe consumers that choose to purchase GTX 480/470 are more focused on performance instead of how much extra watts they consume. To pay a little higher electricity bill in exchange for 10% more in performance, I believe consumers will think this is a worthwhile trade.”
Finally, Henry minimized the significance of the growing rift between NVIDIA and XFX, with the latter foregoing exclusivity to manufacture Radeons and the former opting to drop XFX as a launch partner for GeForce GTX 400 adapters.
“Another one is that XFX is not a close partner of Nvidia and the company has a lot of partners such as Asustek Computer, Micro-Star International (MSI), Gigabyte Technology and Zotac that we are currently working closely with,” he said.
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