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CES: NVIDIA shows Fermi

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Over at the NVIDIA booth at CES NVIDIA mostly is showing off 3D Vision related gear, a lot of Tegra and ION items. But if you look a little closer, then you'll spot a nice screen with three monitors running 3D Vision. What's empowering that setup is in fact a Fermi based setup. So yea, it's abundantly clear that Fermi finally is closing in on a release. Now there where some rumor that the Fermi cards would be on display, and this is not the case. The cards you mostly see photographed at other sites are in fact not Fermi, but GTX 285 cards -- yes yes.
Anyway, this is all we can show your Fermi wise. Mind you that the three monitor 'Eyefinity like' support will become available with a driver very soon for not only Fermi, but also all GT200 based cards like GTX 260,275,280, 285 and GTX 295. Not bad we like that.
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source :- http://www.guru3d.com/news/ces-nvidia-shows-fermi/


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I'm a tad corious to see what there solution is the ATI's displayport problem, especially if the gt200 series can do this aswell.

Seems like Nvidia also want to take back the multiple monitor crown aswell.
 
straxusii said "Tegra2 is looking immense, I guess they'll be able to can fermi and just focus on that "
Tegra 1 & 2 look to be way too little way too late. What's so impressive about it? It seems to be behind the competition.GPU wise in the Tegra Nivida are offering later this year what others are offering now .
 
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niggyg said "An article on Tegra 2 - http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/354610/n...-apples-tablet
It all sounds impressive, but lets get these products out at the right time"
How is that impressive? Just which bit is impressive compared to other products?

What are the chances of the Tegra being in the Itablet? very small I would say considering how close Apple are with PowerVR and most of the other Apple mobile products use PowerVR chips. Surely they would want the Itablet backward compatible with Iphone apps and games.

Tegra 1 was all marketing fluff and very poor performance. So far all I see is more marketing fluff from the Tegra 2 and if its only x3 faster then Tegra 1 it is going to be slow. LoL at there comments about it being the fastest at Quake 3.
 
Pottsey said:
niggyg said "An article on Tegra 2 - http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/354610/n...-apples-tablet
It all sounds impressive, but lets get these products out at the right time"
How is that impressive? Just which bit is impressive compared to other products?

What are the chances of the Tegra being in the Itablet? very small I would say considering how close Apple are with PowerVR and most of the other Apple mobile products use PowerVR chips. Surely they would want the Itablet backward compatible with Iphone apps and games.

Tegra 1 was all marketing fluff and very poor performance. So far all I see is more marketing fluff from the Tegra 2 and if its only x3 faster then Tegra 1 it is going to be slow. LoL at there comments about it being the fastest at Quake 3.
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That was kind of my point without going into as much detail as you. it sounds impressive (power consumption & size) but lets actually see things using it!
 
Hopefully Fermi won't take for ever to arrive, I really would like a choice before I build my next watercooled rig and currently there is only one option 5870 (I am not a fan of the crossfire/sli dual chip solutions)...
 
unknownsock said:
I'm a tad corious to see what there solution is the ATI's displayport problem, especially if the gt200 series can do this aswell.

Seems like Nvidia also want to take back the multiple monitor crown aswell.
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Not sure how they are going to take the monitor crown back when, 3d isn't inherant to the core design or hardware, its down to 3rd party made glasses and software, which AMD are already adding, they probably won't go down the closed standard route Nvidia are using, nor using the worst quality glasses out there nor IR which is the worst solution.

THen when you take into account Nvidia can now support 3 screens, while AMD support 6, not sure where they win.

Its very very silly to upgrade to either eyefinity or current 3d/120hz screens anyway, with oled right round the corner, which seems very likely behind the wait to widely introduce 120hz screens(go oled, add 120hz and it becomes a superb new type of screen that lots of people will upgrade to). If you have screens and have to have it now, go ahead, the massive majority still use one screen, a few use two screens, almost no one uses 3 yet, by the time they do oled/120hz, amd 3d and display port will be completely standard.

At a guess, though I can't be sure, display port has less signals, which probably means simpler adding to a core at a cost of less die space and a smaller more efficient ramdac. If display port makes the core small enough to be produced cheaply I welcome it.
 
If it beats my 5870 by a good margin and is not extortionate in price then yeah I will pick one up, never had any trouble with NV in the past or ATI, although I prefer ATI from a moral POV.
 
drunkenmaster said:
Not sure how they are going to take the monitor crown back when, 3d isn't inherant to the core design or hardware, its down to 3rd party made glasses and software, which AMD are already adding, they probably won't go down the closed standard route Nvidia are using, nor using the worst quality glasses out there nor IR which is the worst solution.

THen when you take into account Nvidia can now support 3 screens, while AMD support 6, not sure where they win.

Its very very silly to upgrade to either eyefinity or current 3d/120hz screens anyway, with oled right round the corner, which seems very likely behind the wait to widely introduce 120hz screens(go oled, add 120hz and it becomes a superb new type of screen that lots of people will upgrade to). If you have screens and have to have it now, go ahead, the massive majority still use one screen, a few use two screens, almost no one uses 3 yet, by the time they do oled/120hz, amd 3d and display port will be completely standard.

At a guess, though I can't be sure, display port has less signals, which probably means simpler adding to a core at a cost of less die space and a smaller more efficient ramdac. If display port makes the core small enough to be produced cheaply I welcome it.
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Well i mean in a generlised immersion point of view, completely forgot that ATI supports up to 24 monitors aswell. And i never knew AMD were going to be adding 3d, all good news for the consumer though.

From what i read it does seem that they are going to be adding it via the software route, similiar to SoftTH. Which is why it may require SLI to do.

The power its going to need for 3D + Surround, is going to be ridiculous though.
 
jrwagh333 said:
Ah I see. Because at the moment I have 2 260's in SLI and with SLI enabled I can only run 2 monitors
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Well looking at how the technology currently works (just like SoftTH),
The primary card will be used to render all data from all monitors, whilst the secondary card will just be used for the extra port.

Although i cant see nvidia taking this route, maybe there amending SLI for this, as i cant see Nvidia allowing you to use a lesser card for your secondary one ;)
 
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