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The hot NV20 article that was featured on the German ZDNet site has now made its way onto the UK counterpart in English, of course. The article is supposedly based on "confidential documents" stating that the NV20 will be upwards of seven times faster than a GeForce2 Ultra.
According to the document, the chip's performance will depend on the application it is running on. In environments where there are low detail scenes (large triangles, simple geometry, hardly any depth) the NV20 is only twice as fast as the Geforce 2 Ultra. The difference in performance grows however with the complexity of the 3D scene (multitude of small triangles, very complex geometry, a lot of depth).
The anti-aliasing performance of the chip is also said to have increased substantially. Nvidia gives the NV20 a 300 percent increase in performance compared to the Geforce 2 Ultra. The performance of the chip doubles when handling geometrical data. According to Nvidia the NV20 is able to handle one trillion operations and 100 gigaflops (floating-point operations) per second.
The rest of the article just states the obvious, such as "performance increase is achieved through better design." Remember that this is all unofficial information, and should be taken with a huge chunk of salt until NVIDIA decides it is time to reveal all to the public.
(Spotted on Shugashack.)
Whels
