Originally Posted by DilTech
Guess people missed it... You see, NVidia were talking about the Tesla cards, which have always launched later than the desktop variant. That would still give the desktop graphics card a chance at launch Q4 of this year.
That^^ sounds more like wishful thinking than reality though...
Coincidentally, you should read Shimpi's article more closely. He knows a great deal more than he's allowed to tell us, but he hints that Nvidia sacrificed some of their performance for greater sales in other markets. Looking over Fermi's architecture, I tend to agree.
Nvidia, has moved it's business model from gaming, to Scientific Computing. Reading threw the article and seeing the "highlights" of the new architecture on Nvidia's own web sight, the only thing that is great for 3d rendering is the stacking and the efficiency. The rest is to aid Nvidia's move into other markets..
Nvidia's got pushed out of the chipset business and has been looking to expand, C++ and CUDA is their new co-processor! That they'll market heavily, as "everyone needing". They tease us with price, but I highly doubt Nvidia will break the sub $199 barrier, so they will NEED to be able to sell these HUGE chips as "co-processors" to the scientific community, etc.
Lastly, what makes you think the GT300 will be worthy of an upgrade over a HD5890, etc? Nothing in Fermi's architectural changes, suggest that games will play 3x greater than the GTX285... or am I missing something?
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