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.
Source: Bright Side of News
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113 Comments on NVIDIA Fermi-based GeForce Accelerator Spotted Working

#101
btarunr
Editor & Senior Moderator
Update:
Although many readers believe the picture is just fake, NVIDIA’s exec has proved its authenticity at the opening ceremony of NVIDIA’s first experience store located in Guangzhou, China.
Drew Henry, NVIDIA’s Senior Director of Platform Products presented exactly the same picture showing GF100 GPU running the DX11 benchmark with his cell phone. It appears that AMD did put plenty of pressure on NVIDIA with the launch of latest Radeon HD 5800 series and HD 5970, but, who is saying the truth when claiming their own offering is “The fastest graphics card on the planet”? Only time will tell.
en.expreview.com/2009/11/18/nvidia-gf100-gpu-seen-in-action.html#more-5878
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#102
wolf
Performance Enthusiast
An interesting development, thanks btarunr :)
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#105
PP Mguire
It wont, because thats the workstation card.

And Dell gets their LCDs from an OEM so if that is the "best" consumer 24" you can buy then another company has something better. My point being, with all of Nvidias money youd figure they wouldnt be using DELL LCDs. Dont look at the quality of the LCD, look at the fact that its a Dell and with somebody said its a "consumer" LCD.
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#106
Benetanegia
PP MguireAnd Dell gets their LCDs from an OEM so if that is the "best" consumer 24" you can buy then another company has something better. My point being, with all of Nvidias money youd figure they wouldnt be using DELL LCDs. Dont look at the quality of the LCD, look at the fact that its a Dell and with somebody said its a "consumer" LCD.
Dell makes and has been making their own monitors for ages, just like HP has, just to put another example. They do not "rebrand" cheap OEM parts by any means, if that is your point. Furthermore when I said consumer I was speaking of the target price more than anything else. i.e sub $500 as opposed to $3000-$5000 that a real professional display would cost.

www.anandtech.com/displays/showdoc.aspx?i=3302&p=4



In terms of overall performance, quality, and features, one LCD rises above the others. The Dell 2408WFP looks the same as the 2407WFP, but it offers additional input options, an improved color gamut, and amazing color accuracy even without calibration. Dell has become the 800-pound gorilla of the LCD market, offering great products at very affordable prices. The 2408WFP may not be the cheapest LCD on the market, but if we had to choose one 24" LCD that would satisfy virtually all users, it's an easy choice. The only blemish on an otherwise perfect scorecard is the 38 ms input lag. That's enough to prevent the 2408WFP from receiving our Gold Editors' Choice award, but it's still worthy of our Silver Editors' Choice. If you're not an extremely competitive FPS gamer, this 24" LCD belongs on the top of your list.
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#107
PP Mguire
Some people take things way to seriously. Go grab a cup of coffee, take a deep breath, and count to 3 then come back to the forums. Kthanx?
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#109
Benetanegia
PP MguireSome people take things way to seriously. Go grab a cup of coffee, take a deep breath, and count to 3 then come back to the forums. Kthanx?
I'm not "altered" in any way, so I don't need to do that, thank you very much. My point with the monitor thing is just that Dell actually makes some of the best "consumer" monitors someone can have and the one on the picture is actually one of the best 24". It's a retail product aimed at semi-professionals, not an LCD that will come with the $500 nettop PC. Sorry if you felt offended in any way, but your point with the monitor and Nvidia using Dell in overall was just stupid.
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#110
PaulieG
Bring it down buys, or infractions will be coming...
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#112
FordGT90Concept
"I go fast!1!11!1!"
dr emulator (madmax)well as i know now 6+8 = 2 more grounds that's it there's no more current available just 2 grounds, which in my experience = no big deal, now if the extra 2 pins were +12volts and ground respective, i could see why they where used but not as they are at the moment here's a little link to a site i used the other week enjoy :)
It means 25w more for this card than the 5870. It might not use it but NVIDIA was compelled to make it available.
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#113
Steevo
So dual processors, a Physx card and a unknown video card make it real and available when?



Not powerful enough to run the physx calculations on chip? Or just trying to get that framerate up?





Untill there is a review from W1zz or someother tech site I trust it is still vapor.
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