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.
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105 Comments on NVIDIA GF100 Graphics Card Chugs Along at CES
I think it will turn into a 2900 scenario but how NV handles it will determine how well they succeed in future generations. If they kick the dirt and stomp and blame DX11 or TSMC they will be destined to a few lean generations. If they suck it up and learn from the mistakes then they can have a card out by next spring with 2x the power.
Judging by the stickers labelling each connector it looks like a Silverstone power suppply, and if you look at some silverstone power suppplies, it is actually pretty common for them to run a 6-pin out of the 8-pin. Look at the OP1000-P if you want an example, in the shot of the 8-pin there are clearly more cables than need, because the 6-pin is running out of it. There isn't sleeving like in the pics, but for all we know nVidia is using a power supply from Silverstone that hasn't even hit the market yet.
I still woudl buy this green giant if it delivers on performance and price. I have water cooling and it won't make my temps rise enough to worry about. But i'm not paying $600 for a single GPU solution that only performs as well as a $385 solution from another company.
I really think NV has some power and heat issues that ATI took their loss on long ago by moving to a new archatecture. Much like a car where throwing more displacement and money at it makes it go faster, but a better optomized and designed car will still perform without the issues, NV may yet suprize us with a turd.
I also know that there won't be just one model, and I wouldn't be surprised if we saw cut down lower models performing similar to the HD5870 and having similar heat and power characteristics.
I don't believe watercooling will be necessary for single or even dual card configurations, triple SLi(and Crossfire) has always presented heat issues because the cards are so close together. And of course the watercooled other parts of the computer too, so it might have just been done to attract attention to the rig.
NV has never fallen behind ATI since the R300 days, and that was only because there NV got a bit lazy with the Geforce 4 series after having no real competition for a couple years, and could not prepare their FX series in time. Even if the Fermi is a kinda new architecture, NV must have been preparing for this for a while. It's just TSMC process to blame, I would like to think.
(NV did get a bit behind ATI for like 6 months in 1H 2006 after the X1900XTX took them by surprise, but not by much more than 10% anyways, and that was after having a 100% advantage over ATI with the 7800GTX for nearly 6 months in 2H 2005).
HUH!? Ok, I don't recall multi video card setups needing specific cooling solutions. Is this marketing or is this really needed...hard to say.
Regarding the card, it will definitely be faster that 5870, the question is how much more expensive it will be, and how much power hungry?
forums.techpowerup.com/showpost.php?p=1706875&postcount=14
:banghead: btrunr addresses that in the first page!!!! Everything is well explained from the start. The thing started finished and started again. If people actually read before posting... :shadedshu
Not only directed at you, Tavix, it's for all the people still comenting on the cables.
So we'll most likely see the same overclock performance from both cards. Given that, despite the 380 GTX being pricier I'd still buy it for the ability to max GTA (1.5 GB mem standard) and for nvidia's vastly better drivers. It just seems like a better package to me.
Let it go and wait for a production model and a review, before you go slinging mud and condeming this product, sad very sad.:shadedshu
I still get the feeling that even if Fermi is mind blowingly awesome, a 5970 OC quite heavily, or Trifire with a 5850 will still beat one of them, but what i really want is lower prices all round, so I can either buy a Fermi card, or another 5870 or maybe a 5970 :)
www.fudzilla.com/content/view/17166/1/
I think the "refresh" is already here