Nvidia distributes some GF100 information.

Posted By: Steve McBarnes - 11:01:37 Tue, January 19, 2010

According to the information Nvidia released, Fermi is going to be a geometry powerhouse and it will also do much better than the HD 5870 at tessellation. I think those of you are that are smarter than me will really be impressed by the fundamental design, so give this stuff a read.

Fermi

For those of you who likes them newfangled video thingys, check these legit Fermi videos out. On that page Kyle does not say they are authentic, but he does say that on the bottom of this page.

8 Comments

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 7:35:14 PM

saintjimmy
That's His Name so Don't Wear it Out!

Did this come from the link I gave in the forums yesterday?

Still, I can't wait for the 5870 to drop to $250-300 in a few months!

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 11:17:57 PM

-RK
Senior Member

You know, it's funny... I was looking at this article earlier and thinking of you Steve.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 11:37:34 PM

Casecutter
Member

And the drumming continues... getting louder, let's hope we can take this for all of February and into March!

Wednesday, January 20, 2010 12:24:48 AM

ultima
Senior Member

i wish we knew what the "side by side" comparison was. against their own video card or a 5870 ? guess we'll find out soon enough.

Wednesday, January 20, 2010 9:59:18 PM

yose3
n00b

total chaos is comming!!!

Thursday, January 21, 2010 4:37:27 AM

MrWizard6600
Member

The L2 is impressive, and totally irrelevant to my performance hopes from this card. I think its great Nvidia is stealing some thunder from X86 space (I mean Intel's IA64 (itanium) was really an omission that X86 is inefficient --but we've got too much invested now), problem is the end-user in need of a pixel pump isn't going to use it. The fact that it looks like the GT200 is going to be more efficient in terms of FPS/watt and/or FPS/mm^2 makes this card nothing more than another bump along the quadradic mr Moore defined for us.

Sorry Green, your headed towards a split between Tesla and Geforce. For this to impact the market we need that 30% reduction in TDP and die space, which you cna get along with a minimal performance drop by altering/removing the L2. Too bad engineering that is so expensive.

Thursday, January 21, 2010 3:21:03 PM

Weer
n00b

Smarter than Steve? Steve McBarnes? WHAT?!

Monday, January 25, 2010 5:28:22 PM

sigmapsicharlie
n00b

I'm sure when these come out AMD/ATI will slash their prices drastically just to cut NVidia's throat in the price war. So this is probably no big threat to the 5K series unless NVidia will be willing to compete at the same price points. Either way, I'm not in the market for a new card until the 5870's come down a couple hundred bucks, but by then I'll be ready for a 6870 haha.

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