Topic: geeks get your toliet paper

[candle_86]

GPU specifications
This is the meat part you always want to read fist. So, here it how it goes:

    * 3.0 billion transistors
    * 40nm TSMC
    * 384-bit memory interface
    * 512 shader cores [renamed into CUDA Cores]
    * 32 CUDA cores per Shader Cluster
    * 1MB L1 cache memory [divided into 16KB Cache - Shared Memory]
    * 768KB L2 unified cache memory
    * Up to 6GB GDDR5 memory
    * Half Speed IEEE 754 Double Precision

these are the specs for the GTX300

http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2009/9/30/nvidia-gt300s-fermi-architecture-unveiled-512-cores2c-up-to-6gb-gddr5.aspx

[Rod ONeal]

Don't get your panties in too much of a bunch just yet.

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/news/video/nvidia-fermi-gt300-video-cards-vaporware/

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Despite all the hype over the reveal of the new NVIDIA Fermi based video cards earlier this week at the GTC 2009 conference, it would appear NVIDIA is even further behind in production of their next gen technology than originally anticipated. So far behind in fact, that CEO Jen-Hsun Huang was forced to go onstage and proudly display a dummy card.
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[candle_86]

your point? it should arrive by christmas which is when it really matter, thats when DX11 arrives and the current G200 can hold ATI for now just fine. The GTX295 is still the worlds fastest grahpics card.

[Rod ONeal]

My point is that the 300 GPU hasn't even been released yet. Maybe it'll arrive by Christmas, maybe not. If I ran Nvidea and I was going to have my new cards released before Christmas, I sure as hell would be letting people know. The last thing I'd want is for any of my current customer base to be jumping ship for 5800 series cards if mine were going to be released soon. Nobody outside of Nvidea knows when it's going to happen.

While I'm sure it will be an excellent GPU I'm definitely waiting to see, and also, see the price. Nvidea really likes to bend it's customers over as far as they can get away with. Also, from what I've read, the specs they've released are for the Tesla cards which are thousands of dollars. While I'm sure that as many as possible of those specs will be on the 300 consumer cards, maybe all of them who knows, they aren't necessarily the specs for the cards we will be buying to play games on or model with.