Tuesday, December 29th 2009
NVIDIA Fermi-based GeForce GPU Further Delayed?
NVIDIA's next-generation GeForce GPU based on the Fermi architecture is reportedly further delayed to March 2010, up from its originally expected time-frame of January. NVIDIA on its part maintained that Fermi-based GeForce GPUs will be released sometime in Q1 2010, and with a March launch, that would still stand true.
Fermi's development history is marked with late arrivals. The DirectX 11 compliant architecture was announced in October 2009 to counter the market-available DirectX 11 compliant ATI Radeon HD 5800 GPUs. Then in mid-November, the company released the first products based on the architecture - GPGPU accelerators under the NVIDIA Tesla HPC banner. An alleged working prototype GeForce accelerator was spotted around the same time, with word doing rounds that NVIDIA will be ready with the new GeForce GPU in early Q1, probably coinciding with the CES event. Faced with further delays, NVIDIA reportedly notified its partners that the new GPUs will be released to the marked only in March.
NVIDIA plans to launch the 40 nm Fermi-GF100 GPU which is DirectX 11 compliant and supports GDDR5 memory in March, and will launch a GF104 version. Till then, the mainstream-thru-performance segments will be left to be defended by GeForce GTS 250, GT 240, GT 220, 210, 9800 GT, against a fortified mainstream lineup by AMD consisting of ATI Radeon HD 5670/5650 (codenamed "Redwood"), and ATI Radeon HD 5450 (codenamed "Cedar"). These DirectX 11 compliant GPUs from AMD will be released in January.
Source:
DigiTimes
Fermi's development history is marked with late arrivals. The DirectX 11 compliant architecture was announced in October 2009 to counter the market-available DirectX 11 compliant ATI Radeon HD 5800 GPUs. Then in mid-November, the company released the first products based on the architecture - GPGPU accelerators under the NVIDIA Tesla HPC banner. An alleged working prototype GeForce accelerator was spotted around the same time, with word doing rounds that NVIDIA will be ready with the new GeForce GPU in early Q1, probably coinciding with the CES event. Faced with further delays, NVIDIA reportedly notified its partners that the new GPUs will be released to the marked only in March.
NVIDIA plans to launch the 40 nm Fermi-GF100 GPU which is DirectX 11 compliant and supports GDDR5 memory in March, and will launch a GF104 version. Till then, the mainstream-thru-performance segments will be left to be defended by GeForce GTS 250, GT 240, GT 220, 210, 9800 GT, against a fortified mainstream lineup by AMD consisting of ATI Radeon HD 5670/5650 (codenamed "Redwood"), and ATI Radeon HD 5450 (codenamed "Cedar"). These DirectX 11 compliant GPUs from AMD will be released in January.
136 Comments on NVIDIA Fermi-based GeForce GPU Further Delayed?
seriously i JUST upgraded to dual 9800gt crysis at X4AA @1920X1080 a solid 40FPS
:toast:
Though I am ATI loyal, I hope the 300 GPU brings another "Leap Frog" performance jump. Competition is a good thing :toast:
I know ATI cards can render, but I'm stating as in where Nvidia has went with the companies to go and work to use their products..
I just feel, Nvidia is a better well rounded card then ATI. Not that ATI isn't good. I do like ATI, It just for me, Nvidia helps me out more then ATI.
Now to everyone.. Do you feel that Nvidia gave ATI the stuff due to all the legal stuff that went down this year with Nvidia/ati? I'm not saying that ATi didn't do a stand up job at getting a great series of cards out. I'm just thinking the reasoning for the push back might be legal terms they came up with due to the legal blows that happened...
I wonder if Newtekie will finally admit that the G300 is behind schedule now. :laugh:I still don't understand this reactionary response to declare the 5000 series as only leading in the "DX11 market."
Last I checked, the 5000 series were also the fastest-performing DX10 cards.
I bet they're fastest in DX9, as well.
And let's not get started on DX8.
the point is, while the 5k cards may have a useless lead in DX11, its a few months where people come and ask "what do i buy?" to websites, friends, family, and coworkers. and the longer it takes for nvidia to get a DX11 card out, the more and more people will reccomend people buy a DX11 ATI card for "future proofing".
its a slow, gradual effect - its not going to take them out of business or anything, but its still a negative for nvidia.
Wasn't with the 4xxx series that everyone went for a 4850 due to how the performance was? Just like the 5770's?
yes, nvidia will come out with a beefy card. but if they cost $500 and use 250W of power, most people arent going to touch it.
I guess a lot of fanbois need to remember that Nvidia hasnt always been on top, in the GF4 and FX series, ATI managed to take the lead for some time. Its certainly possible for another time like that to roll around.
as to those defending nvidia with the "wait and see" approach, lets try that:
ATI: cards already out.
Nvidia: nothing.
Hmm.. so far, i see ATI in front. and since i cant predict the future (accurately), i'm going to stick with the idea that "ATI is in front, and will be for a few months"
even when it does launch.. will they have enough supply? will ati's stock be fortified enough to lure in the people out looking to buy sold out GT3s?
www.guru3d.com/review/ati/radeon8500/
This to me is allowing ATI to catch up on whats on the GPU it's self but once that die size gets bigger the more issue's start for ATI too.
And if there was no 40nm issue for ATI i'm sure nV would be doing a lot better too.
So if Fermi beats ATI, then what will be the claim to fame? To be able to say this card plays 10fps over that card is not really very impressive when there is only one game to test with.
The 5870 owned all of the games except Crysis, so what is the point of hyping a better card for games if you are already at or over (sometimes way over) 100fps?
They should be working on the angle that this is THE card for DX11 and future games and will win over ATI. Until we see a lot of DX11 games made for the PC, we just have two cards battling for Crysis supremacy and what they may do with programs and games that haven't been written yet.
DX10/.1 is lying on the canvas. This round may belong to whomever can convince the public that their card is better at running programs that don't exist.
a question to PP's comments about the 8500 vs 4600:
In your mind, is fermi going to be the counter/equal to ATI's cards that are out NOW, or out at the time fermi comes out?
To me, its got to counter the cards that come out when fermi does. Thats going to be ATI's refresh, and ATI has a 6 month lead there. That is why i beleive ATI is ahead here. (NV's first gen cards tend to be hot, power hungry, fast, and expensive. look at 8800GTX and GTX 280) - vsing something like that against something even more power efficient than ATI's 5K cards... well, i know which one average joe is going to get - the one that doesnt make his PSU explode.