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.
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Bright Side of News
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.
113 Comments on NVIDIA Fermi-based GeForce Accelerator Spotted Working
Could it be possible? Is Longcard really going to dethrone Longcat?
For argument's sake here's a pic.
There you go and I find it hilarious that you are defending this to such a degree that you are actually upset that I as well as others don't believe that this is real. You yourself cannot prove that it is real yet find yourself up in arms when others see subtle differences that lead to the opinion that none of that is real. And yes, you should see the diodes either through reflection or through it's illumination, LOL!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yGMbiNBoTg
In any case the best you can do at this time is say that we don't agree. Anything else you try to refute is fool-hardy at best.
1. No motherboard diode lights that signify that the motherboard is turned on
2. No real press release
3. Another PC and mouse which are turned on and appears to be in used
4. Omitted benchmark results and no other benchmark results
etc. So, the issue about just "no lights on the motherboard" is not the issue in and of itself as the ultimate means to refute that this is true. It's the other issues surrounding this that brings an opinion other then this is real. So, in order for me and others to believe this I would like to see the actual video card and benchmark results. The presentation here just doesn't look legit to me.
1) Binge's point, the one you quoted, refutes this.
2) Its a leaked photo, not official
3) Binge showed you his testing area that has multiple PCs. I once had 3 PCs out of case, on a desk, hooked to 1 monitor via KVM switch. And I'm only a hobbyist. This is their job.
4) Its a leaked photo, not official
I don't care one way or another. It'll get here when it gets here. ATi will lower prices or something, or release a faster OCed version. Nvidia will do stuff like they did last time. More on so forth, rinse repeat graphics wars.
In other words, neutral ground.
Who cares if it's real or not? Come December or January at the latest we will be reading reviews on it, or buying them by the dozen on Newegg (my plan at least), if TSMC does their part that is.
Take for example the Fermi card that Jen waved around a few motnhs back, that was conclusively debunked, this has not been.
wouldn't it be cool if it was real? that means one step closer to more competition, and ATi lowering the prices on 5 series cards.
I'll probably wait until their '360' or whatever version gets cheap. Toss 3 of them into my folding rig and move my GTX260s down the line.