NVIDIA's upcoming flagship graphics processor is going by a lot of codenames. While some call it the GF100, others GT300 (based on the present nomenclature), what is certain that the NVIDIA has given the architecture an internal name of "Fermi", after the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi, the inventor of the nuclear reactor. It doesn't come as a surprise, that the codename of the board itself is going to be called "reactor", according to some sources.
Based on information gathered so far about GT300/Fermi, here's what's packed into it:
- Transistor count of over 3 billion
- Built on the 40 nm TSMC process
- 512 shader processors (which NVIDIA may refer to as "CUDA cores")
- 32 cores per core cluster
- 384-bit GDDR5 memory interface
- 1 MB L1 cache memory, 768 KB L2 unified cache memory
- Up to 6 GB of total memory, 1.5 GB can be expected for the consumer graphics variant
- Half Speed IEEE 754 Double Precision floating point
- Native support for execution of C (CUDA), C++, Fortran, support for DirectCompute 11, DirectX 11, OpenGL 3.1, and OpenCL
Update: Here's an image added from the ongoing public webcast of the GPU Technology Conference, of a graphics card based on the Fermi architecture.
205 Comments on NVIDIA GT300 ''Fermi'' Detailed
Nvidia will implement a top-to-bottom release strategy from high end to entry level. <<END>> While he didn't talk about it during the keynote presentation, this release strategy also includes a high end dual-GPU configuration that should ship around the same time... <-THIS is what is implied he didn't talk about due to the way the sentence is structured. If it was saying he didn't talk about the release strategy, it would read:
Nvidia will implement a top-to-bottom release strategy from high end to entry level, even though he didn't talk about it during the keynote presentation.
Commas can change context very easily.
As for the "around the same time" - meaning "not at the same time, but possibly within a month or two" part, the quote you provide never said it would be released immediately. It only ever says 'around the same time' so nothing is contradicting.
Any video card that properly makes me a cup of coffee has my vote. :toast: