Wednesday, November 18th 2009
NVIDIA Fermi-based GeForce Accelerator Spotted Working
"This puppy here, is Fermi" announced a proud Jen-Hsun Huang, NVIDIA's CEO. The shiny, chrome-decked Tesla GPGPU accelerator that makes use of NVIDIA's Fermi architecture, soon turned out to be a mock-up, aimed solely at announcing the completion of development of the Fermi architecture. It was also strategically timed to coincide with AMD's market launch of the industry's first DirectX 11 compliant graphics cards under the Fermi is significant since it supports the DirectX 11 API. Today ironically, on the occasion of AMD's launch of its "Hemlock" Radeon HD 5970 flagship accelerator, a picture showing a working consumer graphics variant of Fermi working. It is as if to assert that a Fermi derivative is no more the paperweight it was when it was first paraded to the media.
NVIDIA's Fermi GPU architecture is to be implemented in three variants: GF100, GT300, and GT300GL, to drive three of the company's product lines: GeForce, Tesla, and Quadro, respectively. GF100 is of utmost relevance to us. A picture leaked recently to Bright Side of News shows a GeForce accelerator based on GF100 to be working, where it appears to be rendering the Unigine Heaven DirectX 11 benchmark. This early sighting, however, doesn't mean that the product is any closer to its launch. It is still slated for Q1 2010, meaning that it will miss out on the X-Mas shopping season. The GF100 GPU is said to have 512 shader cores, and connects to GDDR5 memory across a 384-bit wide memory interface.
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Bright Side of News
NVIDIA's Fermi GPU architecture is to be implemented in three variants: GF100, GT300, and GT300GL, to drive three of the company's product lines: GeForce, Tesla, and Quadro, respectively. GF100 is of utmost relevance to us. A picture leaked recently to Bright Side of News shows a GeForce accelerator based on GF100 to be working, where it appears to be rendering the Unigine Heaven DirectX 11 benchmark. This early sighting, however, doesn't mean that the product is any closer to its launch. It is still slated for Q1 2010, meaning that it will miss out on the X-Mas shopping season. The GF100 GPU is said to have 512 shader cores, and connects to GDDR5 memory across a 384-bit wide memory interface.
113 Comments on NVIDIA Fermi-based GeForce Accelerator Spotted Working
hype = drama = money.
MTV baby.
Really, if someone is here saying that he is an enthusiast and never had more than one computer powered on at a time, with a switch to change which one is displayed on the monitor, with their old mouse and kb attached to the other PC or saying that he never made a short in the mb in order to power on his testbed, then that is not an enthusiast. Period.
I knew my comment was going to be depreciated and myself was going to be taken as fanboy, because only a fanboy can have an opinion other than "Nvidia sucks and this is obviously fake, because there are no lights where there shouldn't be lights and because a high-grade engineer has more than one PC and there's a second mouse in the other side of the table where we can't see shit about what there is, for all we know there could be another PC there, but it's still fake". These forums work this way after all and they are getting worse by the day. That's why I tried to suggest my point through sarcasm, rather than directly point it out directly. Binge did that, providing more than enough proofs and still got flamed. Ridiculous!! :shadedshu
Could be real or not, either way it doesn't matter as we the public won't be getting our hands on the card til its released anyway.
:laugh:
EDIT: BTW. Anyone wants REAL proofs?
- "Souncard without wires on it?" -> I can't remember the last time I plugged anything in my sound card:
- "is these wires going to keyboard?", "I can't see any HDD cables plugged in from the reflection", "Do you see any memory here?"
Really, untill we hear the good word from Nvidia, this is hearsay, and possibly something some geek came up with. Or it could be real, something a engineer who is probably prohibited from bringing a camera to work used his phone to snap a pic and send it off, and that started this all.
Either way, I don't see anything from Nvidia besides a remake of the MARS 285 and a mention of 1K as the price. So they still have vapor, we still have nothing, and some people will fall hard on the sword if they don't get their shit together.
I can't claim one way or the other - one could look at the PCIE connectors on the VGA and claim that if one PSU was powering the card, both cables would come from the same direction . . .
One could look at the small amount of space around the mouse and say there's no enough room for someone to properly operate the mouse . . .
One could look at the screen and say that beacuse the numbers are blurred, it could be a screen saver . . .
One could look at the Audigy on the top shelf, and say that it's an antique test setup, so it couldn't house a modern GPU . . .
Seriously, guys - if the pic is legit, it would've been taken from an engineers workstation . . .
Now - y'all know the kind of clutter we keep our personal rigs and hardware setups in - if you were working around it all day long, swapping components in and out, you know it'd be more of a mess . . .
Regarding the no power/reset cables - the pic doesn't show the lower right headers of the board - so one can't draw conclusions in that aspect, and the reflection on the GPU cooler doesn't show much beyond the chasis fan header.
Regarding the board on the shelf above the VGA - well, there's obviously no power switch on that board, so whatever vid card is installed there probably isn't running ATM . . .
And tll athose cables along the side of the monitor - they could be going to a shelf above the top motherboard . . .
Regarding the keyboard/mouse in the background - there could be another monitor behind the visible one connected to that setup . . . I don't have pixelated x-ray vision, so I can't confirm or deny that theory . . .
<sigh>
Just some thoughts, guys . . .
The other side of my room, the one that is not close to the monitor/kb/mouse that's another story. I'm not claiming to be a "clean" person. :laugh: I just like to be free to move around when working/gaming.
EDIT: to me it looks like there are 2 motherboards, one up top and one bellow, 2 mice so to me i think there are 2 pcs; doesnt mean that both are running because only one monitor is displaying so it could be another system without Fermi running or Fermi running
evidence is inconclusive
To everyone who says the second mouse is proof of a second system running the game and that the Fermi card isn't running:
The assumption is made that the second mouse and keyboard seen in the pic are evidence that a second system, seen above the Fermi card, is running the monitor. Many believe the Fermi card isn't actually on. Why would they bother getting a second mouse, lighting it up and placing it beside an 'off' motherboard if they already had a mouse, lit up and everything that would be placed right in the same place as the first one? The logic that they would have to follow for the 'second mouse argument' to be true is completely screwy.
Therefore second mouse (and keyboard if you look) -> second, separate workstation (including its own monitor, obscured by the monitor visible. Not second mouse -> different computer, same workstation + fake.
Interestingly what it all boils down to is shoddy marketing practices though.
But, I'm sure the majority of us here fall into the "hit-by-a-tornado" category . . . just trying to point out that an engineer's workstation is going to look a mess with a bunch of stuff all over . . . seems a lot of people here expect a "leaked" hardware pic to look like it came straight from the lab instead of a workstation :laugh: