iXBT Labs heeft wat info gevonden over de Pro versie van nVidia's GeForce2 chip. Volgens deze .pdf zullen GeForce2 Pro kaarten een normale GeForce2 core krijgen (draaiend op 200MHz) maar profiteren van DDR geheugen draaiend op 460MHz, zoals ook gebruikt wordt voor de GeForce2 Ultra. Aangezien het algemeen bekend is dat GeForce's het zwaarst te kampen hebben met bandbreedte problemen zal deze upgrade waarschijnlijk veel goeds teweeg brengen:
The so long rumored info about the mysterious GeForce2 Pro chip from NVIDIA, which was first provided in the inf-files for NVIDIA drivers, has been finally confirmed, as to PCRave. It looks as if we were about to witness one more NVIDIA product announcement. What made us think so? Well, there appeared a pdf-file on NVIDIA’s official web-site, according to which GeForce2 Pro will be the same GeForce2 Ultra with the core working at 200MHz (like an ordinary GeForce2 GTS). However, the new chip will retain the main advantage of GeForce2 Ultra: its memory will work at 460MHz.So, we can conclude that the “enhanced” 0.18 micron technology used for GeForce2 Ultra chips manufacturing doesn’t provide high fit chips share. This is exactly the reason why NVIDIA, which turned out unable to satisfy the demand on its Ultra chips, had to offer graphics cards manufacturers an alternative solution. To tell the truth, the whole thing is very much similar to Intel announcing phantom CPUs with that only difference that NVIDIA doesn’t yet have any competitors.