Nvidia is trying to change the world once again. The company tends to make some big architectural changes and it did it with G80 / G92 and last time with its GT200 generation.

The next in the line of big conceptual changes and rethinking the graphics world as we know it is GT300. We don’t even know if the codename is right, it is at least to some people, but the chip is real and it should be coming either in late 2009 or early 2010. No-one, even at Nvidia, knows exactly when this should happen, but they all have high hopes it will be this rather than next year.

Since Nvidia is talking and thinking more about the computing market than about graphics dominance, it is easy to believe that the new chip will be fitted for massive parallel computation and it should be much faster in this GPU Cuda, DirectX compute, OpenCL world. It is only natural that performance per watt will increase and that with 40nm you can expect many transistors. DirectX 11 support is naturally there but DX11 will only matter when the big games supporting it comes, and its unlikely that we will get any important titles before deep in the 2010.

Without a doubt one thing is certain. Once it comes, GT300 will be very interesting chip.