[Chivs]

If the following specs are an indication of the upcoming GeForce4, then the graphics cards wars are about to be very interesting. The following is taken from the nVidia PDF on the NV17 at their website.


- Integrated 350 MHz Palette-DAC supporting analog VGA monitor

resolutions up to 2048x1536

- Integrated NTSC/PAL TV encoder with precision 10-bit DAC supporting resolutions up to 1024x768

° Integrated 165MHz TMDS transmitter for Digital Visual Interface (DVI)

° Separate Color, Brightness, Gamma and Hue control for every output

° Separate Gamma control for video overlay

° Digital Vibrance Control with independent control for each display

• Video Processing Engine

° Industry’s most complete hardware MPEG2 decoder offloads

CPU for reduced power and longer playback on battery

° VPE for full screen, full frame rate HDTV/DVD playback. Supports up to 1920x1080i ATSC format

- Inverse Quotient, (IQ)

- Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform (IDCT)

- Motion Compensation and

- Color space conversion

 

[MKANET]

Very cool!!!

 

[David Panko]

Sounds cool.


I wonder if the output DAC is also 10-bit or still 8. It sounds like the "10-bit DAC" they refer to is actually an ADC used for video capture.

 

[kenliles]

Is that significantly different from the Radion specs?


ken

 

[dcheesi]

Err, actually that 10-bit DAC sounds like it's part of the TV-out (s-video out) feature. Who knows what the regular VGA output path uses.