nVidia GT300's Fermi architecture unveiled

thevet · 30 Sep 2009 at 17:30

http://www.guru3d.com/news/nvidia-gt300s-fermi-architecture-unveiled/

elpedro · 30 Sep 2009 at 17:49

We are going to have one damn expensive card on our hands :cool:

james.miller · 30 Sep 2009 at 17:52

interesting!

Happy · 30 Sep 2009 at 18:02

elpedro said:
We are going to have one damn expensive card on our hands

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james.miller said:
interesting!

/stupid question

Why does the chip have level one and two cache as well it's VRAM?

Orangey · 30 Sep 2009 at 18:04

Here's a lay man's guess: probably to do with native C++ support.

Jokester · 30 Sep 2009 at 18:05

Happy said:
Why does the chip have level one and two cache as well it's VRAM?

Nvidia are supposedly beefing this up as a proper parallel processor for CUDA etc.

Happy · 30 Sep 2009 at 18:10

Jokester said:
Nvidia are supposedly beefing this up as a proper parallel processor for CUDA etc.

Ah cool, thanks

Stormar · 30 Sep 2009 at 19:22

looks like this is going to be some gpu,cant wait till we see it on benchtest

Calneon · 30 Sep 2009 at 19:34

Why does anyone need 6GB of VRam?

JediFragger · 30 Sep 2009 at 19:39

Niiiiiiiiiice! :cool:

But I doubt it's gonna be cheap!

ejr22 · 30 Sep 2009 at 19:42

JediFragger said:
Niiiiiiiiiice!

But I doubt it's gonna be cheap!

Between £350-£450 I reckon.

bobert50 · 30 Sep 2009 at 19:45

ejr22 said:
Between £350-£450 I reckon.

Extremely optimistic

ejr22 · 30 Sep 2009 at 19:46

bobert50 said:
Extremely optimistic

Always!

Only time will tell I guess.....

hohum · 30 Sep 2009 at 19:47

Calneon said:
Why does anyone need 6GB of VRam?

I'd imagine that will be for the Quadro variants.

mdjmcnally · 30 Sep 2009 at 19:48

I can't see them launching a card for general gaming like that.

Sounds more like a card for tesla and the gaming card will be cut down to keep the costs reasonable.

Can't see how they could launch such a card and be competitive on price. Gamers unless seriously loaded will just go 5870 or whatever is out when this sees the light of day in retail.

thebandit · 30 Sep 2009 at 19:52

Trouble is, Nvidia seems to be designing a fast GPU that does a lot of other stuff. Question will be is that other stuff of interest to you or do you just want to play games at decent frame rates, if its the later you will be paying a lot for a bunch of functionality you won't use. I sometimes wonder what nvidia's agenda is, they seem to be moving away from pure gfx and trying to build a pc on a card, to er go in your er pc ?.

Orangey · 30 Sep 2009 at 20:02

Nvidia wants revenues from more than just the graphics market, they saw the potential of GPUs as massively powerful number-crunchers and tried to get in early and corner the market. They've only been able to convince their fanboys that gaming consumers NEED this though.

mmj_uk · 30 Sep 2009 at 20:10

Sounds like a nice upgrade from my 5870.

Tom|Nbk · 30 Sep 2009 at 20:15

This is going to be silly fast and..silly expensive.

Mal X · 30 Sep 2009 at 20:15

mmj_uk said:
Sounds like a nice upgrade from my 5870.

oh God here we go ..... you've only just got that card and now you want to get rid of it..... JESUS CHRIST, you should be made to keep it....