Graphics card giant Nvidia is set to hold an event in San Francisco, California on June 21st where it will be taking the ribbon off its next-generation graphics card, the G70, which Nvidia claim shares some features with the PS3's GPU.It is reported that some of the demo booths at E3 showcasing the PS3 were running the games via a prototype of the G70 board.
ATI as usual will not be sitting idle and are expected to release their own next-generation card, the R520 on July 26th.
While NVIDIA is supplying a design for the graphics chip in PlayStation 3, Microsoft's Xbox 360 will be powered by a variant of ATI's next-gen part.
NVIDIA's current top of the range boards are the GeForce 6800 family (high end versions of which were also used to run some PS3 demos), and the company recently introduced functionality which allows two 6800 boards to run together for extra performance, a configuration called SLI. It's believed that the G70 boards will offer this functionality from the outset.
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