At this moment, it’s fair to say that NVIDIA’s G92X2 cards have lost the price war to AMD/ATI’s 3870X2. And now the Canadians prepare the 3850X2, while secretly scheming on the upcoming R700 GPU. But NVIDIA has some plans of its own, plotting for some new cards that could be released this year.

As usual, NVIDIA has some aces up its sleeve, and we see it currently planning to release a new card in Q2 2008. It is going to be powered by none other than the D10U-30 GPU, an improved variant of the rumored G100. The new card is supposed to integrate 1024MB of DDR3 memory. What, still GDDR3? C’mon NVIDIA, we could really use some GDDR4 power! Anyhow, D10U-30 GPU is the chip that comes before GT200, and GT200 should be out in Q3 or early Q4, according to some well informed, yet unconfirmed rumors.

For those of you hoping to end up with a less power-hungry card, know that the new card won’t go below 225 to 250W, and NVIDIA already warned its partners about this issue. It looks like the green guys are designing yet another dual chip card.

Speculating on the possibilities, we can also expect a 55nm G92 shrink behind the D10U-30 GPU.