Su Hardware-mania sono stati pubblicati alcuni rumors del NV40, guardate:

NV40 Specs:

300-350 Million Transistors on 90-nm process
750-800 MHz Core
16MB Embedded DRAM (134M trans.)
1.4 GHz 256-512MB DDR-II Memory
8 Pixel Rendering Pipelines (4 texels each)
16 Vertex Shader Engines
204.8 GB/sec Bandwidth (eDRAM)
44.8 GB/sec Bandwidth (DDR-II)
25.6 GigaTexels per Second
3 Billion Vertices per Second
DirectX 10 (or extended 9.1)
Release H2 2004


To compare, here are the NV30 Specs

0.13u process
500 MHz core clock speed
500(1Ghz) MHz 128-256MB DDR-II
125 M transistors
8 pixel pipelines with 2 texturing units each
16 texture layers per rendering pass
3.2 gigapixels per second
6.4 gigatexels per second
360-400 million vertices per second
16 gigabytes/sec
DirectX 9.0+ features (Pixel Shader 2.0+, Vertex Shader 2.0+, etc.)
128 and 64-bit Floating-Point Pixel Processing
Quad Vertex Shader Engine
Improved FSAA (Programmable Grid AA or Adaptive AA)
Improved HSR (Lightspeed Memory Architecture III)
AGP 3.0 (AGP 8x)