Monday, December 14th 2009
NVIDIA Pitches GeForce GTX 300 Series to Clinch Performance Crown
NVIDIA's latest DirectX 11 compliant GPU architecture, codenamed "Fermi," is getting its first consumer graphics (desktop) implementation in the form of the GeForce GTX 300 series. The nomenclature turned from being obvious to clear, with a set of company slides being leaked to the media, carrying the GeForce GTX 300 series names for the two products expected to come out first: GeForce GTX 380, and GeForce GTX 360. The three slides in public domain as of now cover three specific game benchmarks, where the two graphics cards are pitted against AMD's Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon HD 5970, being part of the company's internal tests.
Tests include Resident Evil 5 (HQ settings, 1920x1200, 8x AA, DX10), STALKER Clear Sky (Extreme quality, No AA, 1920 x 1200, DX10), and Far Cry 2 (Ultra High Quality, 1920x1200, 8x AA, DX10). Other GPUs include GeForce GTX 295 and GTX 285 for reference, just so you know how NVIDIA is pitting the two against the Radeon HD 5000 GPUs, given that the figures are already out. With all the three tests, GTX 380 emerged on top, with GTX 360 performing close to the HD 5970. A point to note, however, is that the tests were run at 1920 x 1200, and tests have shown that the higher-end HD 5000 series GPUs, particularly the HD 5970, is made for resolutions higher than 1920 x 1200. AA was also disabled in STALKER Clear Sky. NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 300 will be out in Q1 2010.
Update (12/15): NVIDIA's Director of Public Relations EMEAI told us that these slides are fake, but also "when it's ready it's going to be awesome".
Source:
Guru3D
Tests include Resident Evil 5 (HQ settings, 1920x1200, 8x AA, DX10), STALKER Clear Sky (Extreme quality, No AA, 1920 x 1200, DX10), and Far Cry 2 (Ultra High Quality, 1920x1200, 8x AA, DX10). Other GPUs include GeForce GTX 295 and GTX 285 for reference, just so you know how NVIDIA is pitting the two against the Radeon HD 5000 GPUs, given that the figures are already out. With all the three tests, GTX 380 emerged on top, with GTX 360 performing close to the HD 5970. A point to note, however, is that the tests were run at 1920 x 1200, and tests have shown that the higher-end HD 5000 series GPUs, particularly the HD 5970, is made for resolutions higher than 1920 x 1200. AA was also disabled in STALKER Clear Sky. NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 300 will be out in Q1 2010.
Update (12/15): NVIDIA's Director of Public Relations EMEAI told us that these slides are fake, but also "when it's ready it's going to be awesome".
189 Comments on NVIDIA Pitches GeForce GTX 300 Series to Clinch Performance Crown
meanwhile, I'm about to play some Dirt 2 w/ DX11.. anyone down?
a core clock from 850 to 950 = way more fps gain, meaning, they aint memory bottlenecked as MANY belive.
G300 will have a 384 bit memory bus running GDDR5 memory modules.
That will have an estimated memory bandwidth of 185-200 gb/sec.
Its funny how 128 bit memory bus diffrence on the 4870 could mean just mere 5-8% eh? they aint very memory bottlenecked, stop arguing about the damn bus, ati know better than you, i belive they've done EXTENSIVE testing to find out what gives most bang for the buck.
I'll probably buy one when they release. I'd like to be able to kick paper in Batman AA while simultaneously having DX11 features for my other games.
I can't even believe the mods posted this crap, lol you don't even know what the source is
besides, if you'd actually clicked the link for source...
This is why I ask if this has been officially confirmed by nvidia via press release on their homepage (for example). Because as it stands now it doesn't look real based on how this came about.
The case has been made, so hopefully BTA will read these points and edit his post.
techreport.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=69653
BAD NEWS- slide is a fake. (straight from NVIDIA, this is not leaked)
As you can notice, it includes data from the upcoming mainstream offering of the third major superpower in the graphics market.
One GPU to rule them all, One GPU to find them,
One GPU to bring them all and in the darkness bind them all