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After debuting its long-awaited GeForce FX (NV30) chip at the 2002 Comdex Fall show, Nvidia has scheduled to introduce a series of NV30-based chip products at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Jose from March 4-8.

In addition to the top-end GeForce FX 5800 Ultra and GeForce FX 5800, Nvidia will showcase two other lower-end lines, the GeForce FX 5600 and 5200 (each with Ultra and non-Ultra versions), in its "Cinematic Gaming Era" launch conference. Together, the six chip products will replace Nvidia's current GeForce4 Ti and GeForce4 MX series of chips.

Though having no plans to hold a formal launch conference, ATI is nonetheless ready for the battle to come with six corresponding products. Similar to Nvidia, ATI has tried to target the high, medium and low-range segments with the Radeon 9800, Radeon 9600 and Radeon 9200 lines, which are based on ATI's R350, RV350 and RV280 cores, respectively.

Like Nvidia, ATI will also supply the top-end Radeon 9800 PRO-based cards to clients itself to ensure quality and then release the Radeon 9600 and Radeon 9200 chips to its card-manufacturing customers for production.