Nvidia Fermi GF100 working desktop card spotted on Facebook

[DosDuoNo]

great were getting tech news off facebook now!? haha jeez

wow, so social networking sites have a use other than 'look what im doing'

heres the brand new site all you social networkers might be interested in,

www.friendface.com

[Sadasius]

Well considering its from Nvidia themselves ...

nuff said!

[highoctane]

nuff said!

And we should put more faith in the blabberings of the haters & speculators?

[Sadasius]

And we should put more faith in the blabberings of the haters & speculators?

Nope. You do know there is usually more then just black and white. How about putting your faith in the product when they prove it's actually working. Haters, blabberings and BS PR is all crap which is exactly what this thread started off to be. There is no proof it is what they say it is just like the wood screw special.

[highoctane]

Nope. You do know there is usually more then just black and white. How about putting your faith in the product when they prove it's actually working. Haters, blabberings and BS PR is all crap which is exactly what this thread started off to be. There is no proof it is what they say it is just like the wood screw special.

Of course marketing and PR are not black and white, I don't trust Nvidia or ATI or Intel or AMD or Company X to tell me the whole truth anymore than I would trust my government to tell me the whole truth.

However Fermi is supposedly up and running/demoing at SC09, so why would they fake a picture on their facebook page when they've got a live demo.

[FischOderAal]

www.friendface.com

Haha I remember that IT-crowd episode

They got quite a few websites with hints and hidden information around that series. Plain awesome

"If you type google into google you can break the internet! So please, don't do it!"

Sorry for offtopic

[s0lid]

Well here's that picture analysed, no idea who did it but:

[overclocking101]

this is rich.

[trinibwoy]

Hahaha, omg there was a second mouse! It's defintely fake.

[Hell Hound]

There going to sell rebaged ATI cards.

[Manicdan]

Fermi demo at SC09. 6.2x faster than GT200???

YouTube - Demonstration of NVidia Fermi (Fermi vs. GT 200)

Source: http://www.vizworld.com/2009/11/nvidias-fermi-sc09/

it could be very easy to over saturate one of the limits of the gt200 to make it look so much slower than fermi.

[trinibwoy]

That's not even necessary. The theoretical advantage is 8x so 6.2x isn't unexpected.

[s0lid]

Hahaha, omg there was a second mouse! It's defintely fake.

Spot the second computer at the right upper corner.
Puts on the tinfoilhat =P

[highoctane]

it could be very easy to over saturate one of the limits of the gt200 to make it look so much slower than fermi.

True but that could also be the point, gt200 saturated while fermi is not.

Text from the vid:

Demonstration by NVidia on the SuperComputing 2009 Show Floor, showing a particle physics simulation running on a Fermi, capable of 9.1 Billion interactions per second, compared to the existing top...

[Manicdan]

True but that could also be the point, gt200 saturated while fermi is not.

Text from the vid:

if its just DP based calcs, then trinibwoy is right that it could simply be that much faster (however i would like to see that same benchmark on a 5870 then)

[Sadasius]

I really don't care about double precision calculations at all. We don't need that in gaming performance. What i would like to see is this thing finally coming out and kicking ass so all the prices can come down a little and the customer can have a choice. That's what I would like to see instead of BS PR marketing filled with wood screws.

[zalbard]

I really don't care about double precision calculations at all. We don't need that in gaming performance. What i would like to see is this thing finally coming out and kicking ass so all the prices can come down a little and the customer can have a choice. That's what I would like to see instead of BS PR marketing filled with wood screws.

Oh, so true.
They shouldn't force professional cards onto the gaming market...

[Helloworld_98]

There going to sell rebaged ATI cards.

with crappy nvidia coolers, at $500 more! and they'll have a slight OC aswell, about 25MHz.

ATi will make loads from nvidia buying so many and nvidia will make a massive loss because hardly anyone buys them.

[tajoh111]

with crappy nvidia coolers, at $500 more! and they'll have a slight OC aswell, about 25MHz.

ATi will make loads from nvidia buying so many and nvidia will make a massive loss because hardly anyone buys them.

When have nvidia coolers been more crappy as of late?

If its most recent quarter is any indication. Nvidia charges $100 dollars more if they did do a rebadge, then turn out 100 million dollar profit while AMD graphic division makes a modest profit of 5 million dollars.

Seriously those, AMD graphic division has a hard time churning out big numbers, no matter what they do. I hope AMD can make 100+ million dollars this term, but no matter what situation they are in, they can't make big numbers.

[Sam_oslo]

This is fake, kids. Don't take everything serios.

OMG, this re-branding business may have gone a bit too far this time. is that a re-branded 5870?

[FischOderAal]

OMG, this re-branding business may have gone a bit too far this time. is that a re-branded 5870?

Wow! Maybe NVIDIA will sell huge monolithic GPUs vor HP-consumers and rebadged ATIs for the gamers?! So all this G92-rebranding was just practicing!

(Don't take me serious atm)

[N19h7m4r3]

HAHAHAH!

Quote from the NV facebook

The worldwide leader in visual computing technologies and the inventor of the GPU.

That's rich! Nvidia did not invent the GPU...

[thatdude90210]

HAHAHAH!
That's rich! Nvidia did not invent the GPU...

They sorta did. They came up with the term "GPU" for graphic processing unit, for their first Geforce when they started including hardware T & L. Before that, graphic chips were just called graphic chips.

[trinibwoy]

They also invented the cGPU it seems since that's also a random name they came up with for their Tesla cards.

[Helloworld_98]

When have nvidia coolers been more crappy as of late?

If its most recent quarter is any indication. Nvidia charges $100 dollars more if they did do a rebadge, then turn out 100 million dollar profit while AMD graphic division makes a modest profit of 5 million dollars.

Seriously those, AMD graphic division has a hard time churning out big numbers, no matter what they do. I hope AMD can make 100+ million dollars this term, but no matter what situation they are in, they can't make big numbers.

seriously?

nvidia coolers wouldn't cool an ATi card, nvidia makes there coolers for low noise over cooling, ATi, vice versa.

if they did a rebadge then they'd still be paying ATi, an awful lot by the way, so for every $100 of profit on a $400 card taking in mind general costs of re-badging would put it at about $580 if they wanted $100 profit. ATi pays $200 for the card to make it (this is the R870 BTW) so ATi makes double the profit nvidia does on each card, so the $100mln for nvidia would be over $200mln for AMD.

ATi is doing amazingly for such a small company which only gets it's cash from ultra high end buyers and low end buyers. AMD won't make a profit this Q, even though they got 1.25bln compensation (extremely low BTW considering Intel paid just over 1 in fines to the EU) they paid off some of their debts but took out another loan (yeah, first you think FAIL! but then you consider the amount of money they put into R&D and you rethink about it)