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http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/17047/1/
Might get some proper info this time, rather than just some fat bloke thumbs upping
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Nvidia to show Fermi at CES
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http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/17047/1/
Might get some proper info this time, rather than just some fat bloke thumbs upping
Might get some proper info this time, rather than just some fat bloke thumbs upping
Or hope they are not held together by woodscrews! Only three days away; been waiting for months for this to surface. Now i3 is out of the bag i hope there are going to be lots of other new stuff this year.
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Only 3 days away, so shouldn't be to long before we get some leakage.
(see what i did there)
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I don't think its impossible for it to happen, A3 silicon should theoretically be back any day now, but its unlikely they'd take that to CES and risk a bunch of bluescreening screw ups.
They should certainly have a few A2 boards kicking about, even if there were only ever a couple dozen all the testing that needed to be done would have been done by now so having a couple at CES isn't a big ask at all.
However, showing the card and doing a full launch with full verified and final spec's are different things.
Remember the showed a "fermi" in November, if its just a card, albeit a real card this time, with some crap about when its due and they show a computer that could have anything in it running some random application(it will be batman, you know it will
) it doesn't help us much.
But I'm guessing its been too long now, AMD is not long from getting full production speed out of TSMC with the first batches from the fixed machinary a few weeks away, if they need to keep people waiting they have to show something and very very soon.
Anyway as said, showing any old card, real or fake, is one thing, a full product launch even without any availbility for 2 months or 3 years, is another thing entirely. I'm not sure that with A3 silicon maybe just back in the last few days, or back in the next few days they'll want to announce the product properly as I'm sure it will take a little more time and a few more wafers to test exactly what speed/shader numbers will work best for them in terms of yield/product/pricing. It seems a couple weeks too early for them to have found that all out so I'd guess its not a full product launch... yet. Unless they go with conservative specs and "surprise" us with better products later on if available.
Even Fud doesn't think it will be a launch, just a showing, and frankly is a box with a Fermi actually running in it, in a locked system you don't know the real specs of, the game settings, tweaks, cheats running whatever is there strongest game, really interesting at all? Specs, real benchmarking, power numbers and prices put everything in perspective, till then the ability for a real Fermi to generate a real picture on a screen without it blowing up, isn't all that impressive, though considering the rumours about Fermi, a welcome step
They should certainly have a few A2 boards kicking about, even if there were only ever a couple dozen all the testing that needed to be done would have been done by now so having a couple at CES isn't a big ask at all.
However, showing the card and doing a full launch with full verified and final spec's are different things.
Remember the showed a "fermi" in November, if its just a card, albeit a real card this time, with some crap about when its due and they show a computer that could have anything in it running some random application(it will be batman, you know it will
) it doesn't help us much.But I'm guessing its been too long now, AMD is not long from getting full production speed out of TSMC with the first batches from the fixed machinary a few weeks away, if they need to keep people waiting they have to show something and very very soon.
Anyway as said, showing any old card, real or fake, is one thing, a full product launch even without any availbility for 2 months or 3 years, is another thing entirely. I'm not sure that with A3 silicon maybe just back in the last few days, or back in the next few days they'll want to announce the product properly as I'm sure it will take a little more time and a few more wafers to test exactly what speed/shader numbers will work best for them in terms of yield/product/pricing. It seems a couple weeks too early for them to have found that all out so I'd guess its not a full product launch... yet. Unless they go with conservative specs and "surprise" us with better products later on if available.
Even Fud doesn't think it will be a launch, just a showing, and frankly is a box with a Fermi actually running in it, in a locked system you don't know the real specs of, the game settings, tweaks, cheats running whatever is there strongest game, really interesting at all? Specs, real benchmarking, power numbers and prices put everything in perspective, till then the ability for a real Fermi to generate a real picture on a screen without it blowing up, isn't all that impressive, though considering the rumours about Fermi, a welcome step
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