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Fermi GF-100 NDA Ends Tomorrow at 9 PM – Sunday, 1/17/2010

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NVIDIA has finally released architectural details of their upcoming 3 Billion-plus transistor GeForce DX11 GPU codenamed, Fermi.  This editor was at NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference last September where the general and GPU computing Fermi architecture was detailed here, here and here in a three-part series.  NVIDIA had hoped the GeForce Fermi would launch last year, but yield issues and the complexity of their new architecture evidently is delaying the launch of this GPU until later in this first quarter of 2010.

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Fermi Production Mock-up

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NVIDIA knows they are late in relation to their competitor, AMD, whose ATI division has launched the 5000 series of GPUs, the first DX11 chips four months ago, and has even launched their DX11 mobile GPUs at CES as we reported here last week.  However, NVIDIA believes the wait for gamers is worth it.  In their first unveiling of the Fermi GF-100 GPU yesterday, NVIDIA has given brand new details of their new DX11 Fermi architecture for gaming and they are quite proud of it.

ABT is privy to this information about the latest GeForce and we shall share it with you tomorrow night, at 9 PM Pacific Standard Time (P.S.T.).  Stay tuned, the graphics wars are heating up again and our readers will know about it first.

Mark Poppin

ABT Senior Editor

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  • Matt

    Top of the line GPUs have been expensive, but knowing Nvidia, the higher end cards (395) will most likely be at least 100 bucks more than ATI’s 5970… after the price drop.

  • BFG10K

    Apoppin: I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the clocks weren’t fully finalized yet.

  • Timezonetest

    I just want to see what time zone the sites running don’t mind me. 9:14PM CST currently

  • apoppin

    It is 1-1/2 hours to go. This NDA expires at 9 PM PST. Don’t worry, we will post our review on time. It is ready to go.

    We are an international group. Some of us actually are PST, others are CST and EST, and for some of us, it is already Monday in Australia.

  • 4:52

    It’s 4:52 in the morning here, where I live, and I can’t sleep, because the suspense is killing me. My eyes are red and I’m deadbeat tired. I’ve been waiting this card to come out for months, as I’m waiting for it now, and there are months to go before March/April. If Fermi fails to deliver at a normal price range, I will NEVER buy nVidia again. This better be good, or else I’m done with the long wait.

  • yogi

    yeah, the easiest way to compare the expensiveness of a product is by calculating performance per price, but i think that doesnt always true. TDP, heat, and another factor like slot-taking must be counted. for me, honestly, the price is not a main factor. it is expensive if the money you have paid is not exactly like what you expect

  • apoppin

    First of all, we don’t know the specs for GF100 yet. It may have an excellent clock-down feature; which is what it is doing most of the time – even for a gamer.

    Even though I consider myself “green” oriented, electricity costs of using my PC don’t really figure in for me. I don’t have that big plasma television, nor do I drive a big car. Instead, I attempt to compensate for my gaming habits on a 24″ LCD with HD 4870-X3 Tri-Fire, in other ways.

    You have to realize that my desktop PC(s) are only on when I am gaming, benching or encoding video. The other 90 percent of the time, I use my notebook for all of my writing and Internet tasks.

    As to the heat and thermal issues. I only find heat an issue in Summer. For the other eight or nine months, my desktop PC serves as a welcome mini-space heater when I am using it. And I have five case fans, so my hardware should have a long life.

    I also think Nvidia is concerned about conservation and we may see it reflected in this chip. We shall see once we get more details and once we get to test it.

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