Associate
- Joined
- 4 Dec 2009
- Posts
- 780
Anyone have any news on this yet? Been checking this forum quite often but all news on the Fermi seems to have gone quiet. Are we still on for launch next month?
-
Competitor rules
Please remember that any mention of competitors, hinting at competitors or offering to provide details of competitors will result in an account suspension. The full rules can be found under the 'Terms and Rules' link in the bottom right corner of your screen. Just don't mention competitors in any way, shape or form and you'll be OK.
The Ferminator
- Thread starter Prof. Cheese
- Start date
Soldato
- Joined
- 27 Jan 2003
- Posts
- 6,107
- Location
- Chesterfield, UK
I think it's still fermenting 
Fixed
Fixed
indeed
- Joined
- 4 Dec 2009
- Posts
- 780
D'oh! Ah well, will have to put up with SLi'd GTX 280s until then...
*Fails at attempting to find use of Fermi in another pun so sticks head in bucket of Fermaldehyde*
- Joined
- 4 Dec 2009
- Posts
- 780
That's what I'm afraid of...
nVidia aren't exactly known for their subtlety now are they?
Man of Honour
- Joined
- 16 May 2005
- Posts
- 31,297
- Location
- Manchester
The Ferminator said:
Associate
- Joined
- 13 Jul 2009
- Posts
- 527
Well thay said Q1 of 2010, so thats upto end of March right? So you would like to hope that they deliver considering its already late.
- Joined
- 4 Dec 2009
- Posts
- 780
- Joined
- 4 Dec 2009
- Posts
- 780
I read that it depends which Quarter they are referring to - their financial year or the calendar year. Nobody seems to know unless something has changed.
Not really, Nvidia said they would be launching some gtx300 cards in Q1. The 500sp 40nm Fermi chip is now the gtx480....
Nvidia's Q1 is April the 26th.
- Joined
- 4 Dec 2009
- Posts
- 780
No...it's your mum!
Nah, that thread is about twenty pages back... if you listen real hard you can still hear the crying
Caporegime
- Joined
- 18 Oct 2002
- Posts
- 33,188
Unfortunately we have no idea if the gtx480 is going to be 512sp's, it could only be 448sp's with the 512sp reserved for some uber mega 485gtx or something, that we might never see.
Theres pretty loud rumours doing the rounds that the A3 silicon also sucked, so we might only get a few wafers of risk production on A3 silicon being "launched" next month and might be waiting for yet another respin(adds about 6-8 weeks on) for a volume launch, even if A3 was "ok" volume launch will be, well, they are said to be getting between 1/4 -1/2 the cores off a wafer that AMD have. So anyone that thinks 5870 supply is bad, has yet to see bad.
I think Fermi is so late, and will be so unavailable the best thing to come from Fermi is likely a launch of some better binned AMD parts, maybe a 5890 with better power delivery to allow for higher clocked models, and maybe a new model or two might push some prices down the range.
I do think the 5830 looks like its being held back to see what kind of salvaged parts its competing against so they can improve performance or drop price if required.
The most interesting thing in the next few months is likely seeing what response AMD has ready.
so bored with the whole situation already, can't wait for Fermi's to be benched/released, just too stop the waiting.Recent article on Anand seems to suggest its VERY likely AMD are aiming for a 6 series launch in sept/oct as last year, so we should see any 5890 type parts, if there are any, pretty soon so they have a good few months out before they replace the whole line up.
I didn't want to bring the A3 rumours up but I worked out Nvidia will be able to fit 89 ish full core's on one of TSMC's 40nm wafers. If 20-30 % A3 rumours are right that's 17 - 26 working cores at 5k wafer !
The average would be 22 cores a disk (at 230 a pop) with a 7-8 week lead time...
The average would be 22 cores a disk (at 230 a pop) with a 7-8 week lead time...
Last edited:
