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NVIDIA GF100 (Fermi) Technology preview

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Last week we arrived at Sin City not only to cover CES but there was something else going on as well. In Las Vegas, NVIDIA had organized a briefing for a select group of the press. From Europe perhaps ten to fifteen people where invited for this somewhat privileged preview -- the topic, a technical overview of project Fermi.
Fermi is of course the family name of the latest generation of GPUs from NVIDIA. The first chipset deriving from Fermi will be called the GF100 GPU which will likely be used on what we think will be called products like GeForce 360 and GeForce 380. Join us in a nice technology preview.
Check out the article here.
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source :- http://www.guru3d.com/news/nvidia-gf100-fermi-technology-preview/

also

NVIDIA’s GF100: Architected for Gaming

At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, NVIDIA had several things going on. In a public press conference they announced 3D Vision Surround and Tegra 2, while on the showfloor they had products o’plenty, including a GF100 setup showcasing 3D Vision Surround.
But if you’re here, then what you’re most interested is in what wasn’t talked about in public, and that was GF100. With the Fermi-based GF100 GPU finally in full production, NVIDIA was ready to talk to the press about the rest of GF100, and at the tail-end of CES we got our first look at GF100’s gaming abilities, along with a hands-on look at some unknown GF100 products in action. The message NVIDIA was trying to send: GF100 is going to be here soon, and it’s going to be fast.
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source :- http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3721 with full review

Better having 2 reviews than one ;)

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I wish they would hurry up and release the cards, to bring down the prices of the 5*** cards.

mathwat
 
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3721 first list says it all

In short, here’s what we still don’t know and will not be able to cover today:

1. Die size
2. What cards will be made from the GF100
3. Clock speeds
4. Power usage (we only know that it’s more than GT200)
5. Pricing
6. Performance
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Just want to post that as I did in other thread, unfortunately, any single one of those 6 points could swing the card either way from fantastic card we can all afford, to so expensive you can get more performance with AMD options at a lower cost, now add all 6 options together in various combo's and theres a hundred ways this could come out. From unmatchable performance and obsoleting the entire AMD line, to not even faster and twice the cost. Its a shame so little real info was given.

One thing I was thinking was from Anandtech's review that the main "benchmark/demo" for the GF100 is the train/physx demo, yet from what I recall the use of tesselation within it, was low. When you look at their slides/data you realise most of the new Raster/polymorph engine was done to get tesselation working as well as possible and as powerful as they thought they could. Which apparently works fantastically in the uniengine demo, which is almost all tesselation. Its been suggested though that when the geometry work is being "used up" doing other work that tesselation without dedicated hardware could be vastly slower. Then in their closest to a real game demo for the card, they have physx and plenty of other things but no where near the level of tesselation used. For something they clearly think as so important I thought it a little strange it seemed so lacking in anything but a demo that really does nothing else.


I want to ruddy know right now what the cards are, even without prices, we only have specs on the architecture, no cards at all, which is a huge blow as we can't even be certain a 512sp part will be available at all in mid march, let alone in small or large quantities.
 
I think "yeilds" must be better than has been rumored as more than one place has had their hands on what are apparently 448SP GTX360 cards... unless they are just rebadged tesla cards for demonstration purposes. Theres no way they are goinna be releasing the 360 w/ 448 SP if they don't have good "yeilds".
 
Sylver123 said:
I also hope these cards don`t disappoint or I can see a lot of users moving to ATI just because they are mad at NVIDIA.
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Its like the Vista to osX fiasco :rolleyes:
Either way I will be buying a new card with superb performance, Id just prefer it to be an nVidia. Dont crucify me for my opinions - Ive got 2 5000series and they have been a lot of hastle.
 
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