The official GT300/Fermi Thread

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: I'm not trying to say that Fermi "will suck" as a 3D rendering device, or that it's going to be exactly equal than GT200. I'm not a fortune-teller, and using logic, I suppose that part of the changes will be benefitial also to 3D rendering tasks. But what it's obvious is that NV is focusing a lot on the HPC market lately, and they are including lots of features based on that market on their chips. And that features, will have a cost in transistors and surface.

These are my thoughts as well. I do hope for our sakes that it does well and is competitive ( and in more than just performance, competitive *ALL* around which is what truly matters ; power usage, cost, scalability ect ) I am personally worried about power usage and cost myself. I am expecting their high end single gpu part to have a TDP of 225-250 which isn't that attractive. As far as realworld usage though, I do expect it to be under 200 ( eg games )

Either Nvidia are worried about where Fermi stands gaming wise or they are confident and are just playing up the CUDA side of things as a plus and not the main dish. Again the proof is in the pudding so until we see something concrete is it still speculation and guesswork at best.