The official GT300/Fermi Thread

[LordEC911]

FYI - I dont think anybody is trolling here. And certainly not ATI fanbois here.
I loved the $100 specials on 8800GT, and "supported" nVidia with my wallet over years
But, looking at FACTS, the situation looks grim.

chip date #months_difference
GF1 Oct99
GF2 Apr00 6
GF3 Feb01 10
GF4 Feb02 12
FX Mar03 14
68 Apr04 13
78 Jun05 15
79 Mar06 9
GTX Nov06 8
G92 Nov07 12
280 Jun08 7
Fermi Dec09? - 19months and counting since G200.

No matter how you put it, nVidia has slowed down tremendously. Took 12 months for simple die shrink of 8800GTX!
Its already 19 months since the G200 line and counting, and likely by launch it will be close to 2 years! Past "record" was 6800->7800 15 months. Its like after the summer of 08 everybody at nVidia took a 1 year holiday. They missed and skipped a cycle.

source
http://www.neeyik.info/timeline/

Think you need to put G200b in there if you are counting G92 and G71.

Guys, wanted to ask you here, cause I forgot where I read about it:
So first will come Fermi single chip card, right? Q1 2010. When was the dual chip card scheduled? Was it 3-4 months after single? I read it somewhere and cannot find it now... Was it said somewhere?

The original rumor/speculation/PR BS from Fud/Theo was that a dual card was going to be launched at the same time which is very highly unlikely. It is also unlikely for Nvidia to put a full GF100 on the dual card, they will either have to use a cutdown version like in the past or wait for a die shrink or maybe both.