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NVIDIA Announces CUDA GPU Architecture - Fermi

NVIDIA today introduced its next generation CUDA GPU architecture, codenamed “Fermi” at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, California. Fermi is an entirely new from the ground-up design architecture and is said to be the foundation for the world’s first computational graphics processing units (GPUs)! Read on to see actual pictures of one of these cards!

Here is a great shot of Jen-Hsun Huang with an NVIDIA Tesla graphics card that was powered by a Fermi derived GPU to give you an idea of the size of the graphics card.

Article Title: NVIDIA Announces CUDA GPU Architecture - Fermi
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so this card is separate from the GT300 cards? if its the same i'd think you would have mentioned it

Nice pix/shots, best I've seen yet on the Fermi. Btw, that die is HUGE!

well it's 3am CST and it appears that the card that NVIDIA showed press wasn't a real working card at all...

Notice the 6-pin PCIe connector? It doesn't match up with the tracings on the PCB and there is a screw hole right in the middle of it...



Charlie broke the story and has more on it here - http://www.semiaccurate.com/2009/10/01/ ... boards-gtc

As much as I hate to say this it sounds more like a desperate "Hey! We have a new GPU ready for assembly too!" from nVidia. The timing is to perfect with ATi just shipping the first batch of their 5870's. I'd have called total BS if this wasn't a a developers conference.

Apoptosis wrote:well it's 3am CST and it appears that the card that NVIDIA showed press wasn't a real working card at all...

Notice the 6-pin PCIe connector? It doesn't match up with the tracings on the PCB and there is a screw hole right in the middle of it...



Charlie broke the story and has more on it here - http://www.semiaccurate.com/2009/10/01/ ... boards-gtc

Lolz, booo nVidia

I had no idea Nvidia were so screwed with making this thing. They must be really really desperate to fake a card that badly.

Dan

lol a terrible fake designed to steal the spotlight from AMD

Nice try nvidia

They could have just said "this is a non working mockup" and we would be happy....but representing this as a working sample is BS

That is disappointing.

Just because the card they showed wasn't a real working card, doesn't mean they don't have one. They may have used a dummy card for the press conference to guard against theft.

As much as I'm surprised, I'm really not. No matter what industry you're in you gotta save face if you absolutely have to maintain public image.

It'll be interesting to see if they trip over their toes to get something to market fast and screw up (*cough* AMD's Phenom CPUs) and then fix it with revisions (Phenom II) or if they just take their time and put the right cards out there. I think in all honesty they'll botch the cards that come out, but then recover to much acclaim.

Honestly though, even if Nvidia screws up so bad that they tank, I reeeeaally don't think that there's anyone else out there to step in and fill the void. Besides, ATI needs Nvidia to keep their swords sharpened. This is fun to watch though, isn't it?

Apoptosis wrote:well it's 3am CST and it appears that the card that NVIDIA showed press wasn't a real working card at all...

Notice the 6-pin PCIe connector? It doesn't match up with the tracings on the PCB and there is a screw hole right in the middle of it...



Charlie broke the story and has more on it here - http://www.semiaccurate.com/2009/10/01/ ... boards-gtc

Sniff. Sniff.

Smells like vaporware.

Teh F4|L, NVIDIA.

You would think they would at least use a real PCB... They wouldn't even have to put the GPU or RAM chips on the PCB to make it look real. I think the main question raised is do they even have a real PCB... One would not think so given the now obvious flaws... so the next more important question is what was the demo running on?

i want to see that pcb compared with ones of working cards, like the GTX 285, i mean, it MAY be a PCB that was working, and was blatantly chopped up just to show something different..poorly

and if they did have a working sample, why would they send out pictures of fakes to the press? i mean, its just pictures, they'd show it if they had it