Thursday, January 7th 2010
NVIDIA GF100 Graphics Card Chugs Along at CES
NVIDIA's next generation graphics card based on the Fermi architecture, whose consumer variant is internally referred to as GF100 got to business at the CES event being held in Las Vegas, USA, performing live demonstration of its capabilities. The demo PC is housing one such accelerator which resembles the card in past sightings. Therefore it is safe to assume this is what the reference NVIDIA design of GF100 would look like. The accelerator draws power from 6-pin and 8-pin power connectors. It has no noticeable back-plate, a black PCB, and a cooler shroud with typical NVIDIA styling. The demo rig was seen running Unigine Heaven in a loop showing off the card's advanced tessellation capabilities in DirectX 11 mode. The most recent report suggests that its market availability can be expected in March, later this year. No performance figures have been made public as yet.
A short video clip after the break.
Source:
PCWatch
105 Comments on NVIDIA GF100 Graphics Card Chugs Along at CES
Images courtesy Hardware Upgrade Italia.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-1GMbqzGX0
When you have a single cable, with both an 8-pin and a 6-pin, there is almost always a warning somewhere to not use both.
An 8-pin is rated for 150w, a 6-pin is rated for 75w. When you have a power supply that has both on a single cable, that cable is only rated for 150w, they just added the 6-pin for people that need two 6-pins, it eliminates the hassle of having a 8-pin to 6-pin adaptor. When you use the 8-pin you are using all 150w that the cable is rated for already, so you can't use the 6-pin.
Heck, I do not know.. perhaps the newer PSU's allow each 12v connection to be fed up to 4A's, and the wires are higher quality capable of handling the load?
So we now have the possibility of more than 300W to power this beast?
Really considering that it is supposed to be more powerful than a energy sipping 5870 it isn't a far fetched idea. More computational power means more electrical power, means more heat. So now to run one of these you will need a new PSU to run it efficiently.
And is it me or is that card running vertical? Do they really need that much extra air movement to use a ATI style blower, and they are forced to use draft from the direction of the card to keep it cool? Then again if it is dumping 350W or more of heat.........
It's not even a preduction card and people are already trying to find problems with it. Sad very sad.
Are we really still debaiting this . .. :shadedshu
Below is what they are claiming:
- Fermi TDP: 300 Watt
Honestly, all I can say is what for some official word on this.If any of that is true Nvidia is pulling a HD2900 on us. If so I would skip that garbage........If its true.