The GT300/Fermi Thread

[Kuntz]

I'm sure a fully clocked and uncrippled Fermi can deliver those numbers. But can Nvidia/TSMC actually deliver such a chip in mass numbers for the market?

because from the looks of things so far even A3 had to be SP crippled/underclocked just to get it to run.

Correct me if I'm wrong please, I do not want to buy another dual gpu card.

On yields:

Since about November and into December. I managed to grab some last minute data off the FTP in early December, but that was the last I had. That would have been A2 silicon. TSMC yields are a totally different ballpark bud, but if I had to make a good stab at it based on my knowledge, I would peg it around 25-30%. They are still low, but have improved dramatically as spins have stepped up.

Yes, there was. A1 silicon was temperamental at best, and was quite buggy. It did exist, and the demo was run on one of the few functional Fermi chips (not to be confused with GF100). Fast forward a little over a month from that point, and A2 silicon was being used for many benchmarks, debugging, etc. A3 silicon has just finished up, and is looking great. Yields are way up from what they were, and it looks like nVidia is going to have a limited availability March launch.