Bij iXBT Hardware is veel info te vinden over Creative's nieuwe videokaart gebaseerd op de nVidia NV15 chip. Als onderstaande klopt kunnen we begin juni voor $349 dollar een 32MB DDR versie kopen die op ongeveer 200MHz zal draaien . Als je liever een kaart hebt met 64MB DDR geheugen zul je óf moeten wachten tot het eind van de zomer óf je koopt er een compleet syateem van een der grote OEMs omheen (dat wordt dus wachten).
- 32MB DDR card will be introduced simultaneously with NVIDIA announcement
- the samples will be available in the first or second week of May
- the cards will be shipped in volume in the beginning of June
- 32MB DDR card will be priced at $349 at launch
- the retail card box design is the same as GeForce and GeForce Pro (or Annihilator) but with a word GeForce2 on it
- the card will be bundled with several games and software titles - Evolva (enhanced version with EMBM), Rage Rally, Whole
- Experience, Colorific, software DVD player (probably WinDVD)
- there will be no TV-out on the card, but this feature will be provided by a specially developed daughter card
- 64MB DDR card will initially be available only for OEMs
- 64MB DDR retail version is scheduled to the end of summer
- 128MB version won't be produced
- chip will run at "about 200MHz"
- the card will be equipped with Infineon DDR memory chips
- we can suppose that memory will be clocked at 166MHz (333MHz DDR) since Creative's manager mentioned that "there were no DDR memory chips at the market faster than 166MHz at an acceptable price"
- reference design of NV15 based card for NVIDIA was developed by Creative (since the company is the main NVIDIA's partner - it buys about 17% of all NVIDIA's graphics chips)