NVIDIA’s G200 graphics circuit (there’s not T, read the IHS) is the very heart of the latest GeForce GTX series, and is something of a heavyweight lifter as NVIDIA has spent everything on making a pure power chip consisting of a senseless 1.4 billion transistors. Most of you have probably seen pictures of the G200 GPU before, but only with the heatspreader sitting on top of the actual core. Over at Computerbase.de they’ve published pictures of the actual G200 core, without the heatspreader and unmounted, I.e. not even soldered to a graphics card.
Even if the heatspreader is quite a lot bigger than the actual core, you can’t deny the fact that the chip is pretty huge. The 55nm shrink coming soon is certainly a welcomed one by all parties involved.
