NVidia's TNT Turns 2

NVidia Corporation announced on Monday its latest Riva processor, the TNT2. The processor boasts new features in 2D/3D with 32-bit true-color rendering, 32-bit Z-buffer, and a 32MB frame buffer. Pushing graphics to a higher level, the chip's TwiN Texel Architecture with per-pixel MIP-mapping can fill 350 million pixels per second and has the ability to render ten million triangles per second.

Already, graphics-card makers (ASUS, Canopus, Diamond Multimedia, ELSA, Guillemot, Hercules, and Leadtek) are lining up to support the new processor.

On the hardware side, the TNT2 uses the .25 micron process, and boards using the processor will be enabled with a 300MHz RAMDAC with a top resolution of 2048x1536x32bpp at 60Hz and Digital Flat Panel support.

The 128-bit TNT2 also supports AGP 2X/4X along with full gaming support with an OpenGL ICD and DirectX 6.0 drivers for Windows 95/98/NT. Already we've seen the first Riva TNT2 board from Diamond Multimedia, and it beat the Voodoo3.

Will your next board be a TNT2? We'll see.