I DID TOO!! That exact one, the Asus. From OcUK no less. The glasses were so chunky and wouldn't stay on my face, and I never got them to work either.
The card itself lasted me all the way through Doom 3 and HL2 launches, though.
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New Nvidia card: Codename "GF100"
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I DID TOO!! That exact one, the Asus. From OcUK no less. The glasses were so chunky and wouldn't stay on my face, and I never got them to work either.
The card itself lasted me all the way through Doom 3 and HL2 launches, though.
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The glasses were so chunky and wouldn't stay on my face, and I never got them to work either.
think i used them twice, both times i got a headache but the 3d was quite good. made my CRT whine like a dog whistle though as it had to to be a very high refresh rate
Quote Fudzilla "Just hours before Nvidia decided to share the Fermi, GT300 specification with the world, we managed to get most of the spec and share it with you.
The chip has three billion transistors, a 384-bit memory interface and 512 shader cores, something that Nvidia plans to rename to Cuda cores.
The chip is made of clusters so the slower iterations with less shaders should not be that hard to spin off. Each cluster of the chip has 32 Cuda cores meaning that Fermi has 16 clusters.
Another innovation is 1MB of L1 cache memory divided into 16KB Cache - Shared Memory as well as 768KB L2 of unified cache memory. This is something that many CPUs have today and as of this day Nvidia GPUs will go down that road.
The chip supports GDDR5 memory and up to 6 GB of it, depending on the configuration as well as Half Speed IEEE 754 Double Precision. We also heard that the chip can execute C++ code directly and, of course, it's full DirectX 11 capable.
Nvidia’s next gen GPU is surely starting to look like a CPU. Looks like Nvidia is doing reverse Fusion and every generation they add some CPU parts on their GPU designs"
Looks like it is defently a 5870 killer, except there is one part they missed out, THE PRICE!!!
The chip has three billion transistors, a 384-bit memory interface and 512 shader cores, something that Nvidia plans to rename to Cuda cores.
The chip is made of clusters so the slower iterations with less shaders should not be that hard to spin off. Each cluster of the chip has 32 Cuda cores meaning that Fermi has 16 clusters.
Another innovation is 1MB of L1 cache memory divided into 16KB Cache - Shared Memory as well as 768KB L2 of unified cache memory. This is something that many CPUs have today and as of this day Nvidia GPUs will go down that road.
The chip supports GDDR5 memory and up to 6 GB of it, depending on the configuration as well as Half Speed IEEE 754 Double Precision. We also heard that the chip can execute C++ code directly and, of course, it's full DirectX 11 capable.
Nvidia’s next gen GPU is surely starting to look like a CPU. Looks like Nvidia is doing reverse Fusion and every generation they add some CPU parts on their GPU designs"
Looks like it is defently a 5870 killer, except there is one part they missed out, THE PRICE!!!
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Even though it is good to see that nvidia have a long-term strategy to comabt the threats posed by intel/amd platforms, a lot of what i am reading seems to imply that these new cards will indeed be strong performers but not necessarily for gaming. I really hope that is not the case
That ties in nicely with what we have already seen, shedman.
I doubt it will happen, but it would be nice to see some kind of performance results during this nvidia conference, even if they are horribly biased marketing-type benchmarks!
I doubt it will happen, but it would be nice to see some kind of performance results during this nvidia conference, even if they are horribly biased marketing-type benchmarks!
Where is anyone saying that they are expecting twice the performance of a 295? Or are you just Nvidia bashing as your signature suggests?
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Fair play, I think as much as £449 personally, the exchange rate isnt so great, and if Nvidia do have the quicker card, am sure they will charge for it.
Really depends on how the 5870X2 stacks up in my opinion compaired to this. I think Nvidia already said they where working on an X2 version, which, at the time atleast, suggested to me there not that confident the 380 will beat the 5870X2, presumably, they will have some sort of GTX 395 ready for that task.
However, the dual GPU version, I guess we wont see till 2010, so I'm thinking £399-449 for the 380 assuming it is in the territory of the R800.
My thoughts atleast.
Really depends on how the 5870X2 stacks up in my opinion compaired to this. I think Nvidia already said they where working on an X2 version, which, at the time atleast, suggested to me there not that confident the 380 will beat the 5870X2, presumably, they will have some sort of GTX 395 ready for that task.
However, the dual GPU version, I guess we wont see till 2010, so I'm thinking £399-449 for the 380 assuming it is in the territory of the R800.
My thoughts atleast.
if the dual GPU version is next year and 500 quid..... i'll get it, but not at 600 quid...
but if the 5870 x2 drops in price by quite a lot next year, this may be too hard to resist...we'll just have to wait and see
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Wow... They really are going all-out at the HPC market. Not even a hint of a mention of graphics / gaming performance anywhere in that white-paper.
The improved scheduling and kernal executions may help efficiency in gaming, but we'll have to see by how much. No mention of total theoretical floating point performance either.
It will be really interesting to see what the performance in games is. Could tell us a lot about how PC GPUs will perform in the future.
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Sounds powerful but aimed at people who need computation power?
Sounds extremely expensive..let's wait and see.
Sounds extremely expensive..let's wait and see.
Sounds interesting. It's interesting that they seem to be releasing architecture details before the release of the product, sounds very CPU-manufacturer like to me. Is that how Nvidia sees itself now - as a general computation specialist rather than a graphics specialist? I mean if the GPU ratios scale similarly to GT200, it should be bloody fast even in gaming scenarios, but does it?
It's just the way that hardware is heading. Intel have Larbee, Nvidia have Fermi and AMD have ever delayed Fusion. It's funny that AMD were the first to hype it up, yet can't get it to work, Intel were next and they will have it next year, while Nvidia announce it 3-4 years later and will be the first to release a version of it!
Yes they've been pushing GPGPU for a long time now, they were even on about accelerating x86 code at one point but I doubt they can get the license.
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HPC? What's that? What are they aiming at if it's not gaming? So confused. 
HPC? What's that? What are they aiming at if it's not gaming? So confused.
High performance computing - basically any professional application that requires large amounts of number crunching, typically this space has been filled by really expensive many-CPU server configurations but presumably Nvidia wants in because of the huge margins. A close-to-home example of HPC would be folding@home - that's a form of distributed high performance computing.