The GT300/Fermi Thread

[Sadasius]

then what is the purpose of this post? the purpose of this thread is to SPECULATE ON THE FUTURE OF THE GF100. as it's final verson doesn't exist, the only thing anyone on this forum can do is speculate.

or troll...

Purpose was agreement with someone's opinion and I would recheck why this thread was created BTW. It was meant for facts which is why I put in the power plant named Fermi because we knew nothing of the damn card except the name at the time.

lol, gotta love the thread tags

Yeah the first one '4 G92's glued together' and 'The Ferminator' were mine...

[BenchZowner]

The fact that you (and some others) take it so seriously to discredit him instead shows...

If this is all that you understood from the other posts, then good for you.

[LordEC911]

thx for all the interesting infos a couple of pages back lordec911!
40% yields for fermi? Thats not going to be fully functional chips though... I can believe that its 40% 484core... But 40% 512core? Nah...

20%...

[LordEC911]

cypress=100$? that would mean its @ 33% yields? 0_o
and first he says gt300 is @ 40% yields right now, then he says quadro and tesla will subsidize geforce until nvidia can reach 40% yields with gt300... huh? :P

interesting read, but a bit weird... and i dont trust the numbers :P

Just go by my numbers that I have been stating since Dec, they are pretty close.

Right, difficult to know ... B1 rev. will be the retail version ?

No, A3 will be the first samples/review cards with small numbers leaking into retail. B1 is in the works and B2 will most likely be the final mass produced GF100.

Are you indicating to have inside info?, or have contact with some partner?

Even if you have heard something about the the name and such, it doesn't mean that you should take off totally and get so sure that you are acting.

Nothing is that sure yet, and nobody can say anything for sure before benchmarking the retail GPU, but those early benchmarks are showing something else than your speculations based on some info that you have heard from somebody.

Yes, he has very, very good info.
He has been pretty much spot on about everything the last year or so, when I first started reading his posts.

And if you in fact are somebody, hiding your identity & status isn't nice at all.

Why does it matter?
He passes on what he knows and we can verify it.
It doesn't matter who he is and what he does, all you need to know is he gets very good info.

[Sam_oslo]

..He passes on what he knows and we can verify it.
It doesn't matter who he is and what he does, all you need to know is he gets very good info.

You may be able to verify some of his info, but he doesn't even allow others to be optimistic, while he himself acts to know everything in such a details that ha can't get surprised . All this without showing any benchmarks or documentation about his claims. He says::

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You cannot surprise someone that knew more about Fermi back in July then you do now. You sound awfully optimistic.. too optimistic.

....

I personally require benchmarks and documentation for this kind of bold claims, otherwise i don't take it serious. You can consider it as good info if you want.

[LordEC911]

You may be able to verify some of his info, but he doesn't even allow others to be optimistic, while he himself acts to know everything in such a details that ha can't get surprised . All this without showing any benchmarks or documentation about his claims. He says::

I personally require benchmarks and documentation for this kind of bold claims, otherwise i don't take it serious. You can consider it as good info if you want.

So multiple people saying almost all the info he gave is correct isn't enough?
Hopefully he doesn't mind me saying this, he told me back in August that GF100 was ~G200 size, not G200b, even though everyone was saying it was smaller than G200b.
He was also the first one, that I saw, that hinted that AMD wouldn't brand Hemlock as an x2 part.

Do some research and read his posts, you will find out just how accurate he is. He has posted quite a bit of info before Charlie or Fud or anyone else has posted it.

Edit- I don't think you understand how leaks work... It doesn't matter what you think about him or his info, take it or leave it. He doesn't have to prove anything, either the info is right or wrong and eventually we will know one way or the other. Since his his track record is outstanding, I have no reason to doubt his info.

[GoldenTiger]

So multiple people saying almost all the info he gave is correct isn't enough?
Hopefully he doesn't mind me saying this, he told me back in August that GF100 was ~G200 size, not G200b, even though everyone was saying it was smaller than G200b.
He was also the first one, that I saw, that hinted that AMD wouldn't brand Hemlock as an x2 part.

Do some research and read his posts, you will find out just how accurate he is. He has posted quite a bit of info before Charlie or Fud or anyone else has posted it.

Edit- I don't think you understand how leaks work... It doesn't matter what you think about him or his info, take it or leave it. He doesn't have to prove anything, either the info is right or wrong and eventually we will know one way or the other. Since his his track record is outstanding, I have no reason to doubt his info.

Couldn't have said it better myself .

[froste]

From what I hear the GF100 cards wont be in retail until March. Can anyone confirm this or shed some more light on the subject?

[randomizer]

From what I hear the GF100 cards wont be in retail until March. Can anyone confirm this or shed some more light on the subject?

They'll be here when they're here.

[LordEC911]

From what I hear the GF100 cards wont be in retail until March. Can anyone confirm this or shed some more light on the subject?

AIB's get cards and finalized specs in Feb.

[Yvese]

Reading this thread depresses me. For nearly half the pages in this thread it's just been people repeating themselves. How boring

On the upside, I love reading these tags. They're hilarious. It's probably the only reason I even open this thread anymore

[Teemax]

Agreed. The thread tags are awesome!

All the bickering and fanboyism in the thread are quite ... serious. It's good to know that some still have humors when creating the tags

[neliz]

You may be able to verify some of his info, but he doesn't even allow others to be optimistic,

It's called dampening enthusiasm..

And when I did leak benchmark scores (P number was correct, X wasn't ) I didn't hear you cheer either.. what's up with that?

I'm not quite anonymous either, it would take you less then 3 minutes to find my real name, my address, phone number etc. (pics of the family, me and my beer belly!)

I'm just warning people here that think that GF100 will be [strike]God's[/strike]nVidia's gift to man. If it was, it would've been last year.. not anymore. We're talking about an expensive, marginal (10-30%) upgrade over HD5870.

That's no speculation.

edit: Dagnabbit... anyone know how the strikethrough tags work here?
edit part Deux: availability will be the end of March, at the earliest.

[ajaidev]

Ohh you all come on, i know neliz from back in rage3d and even in those days he was more of a supporter than anything else.

If one does not like what neliz writes just ignore it, geez its not such a huge issue to began with...

[saaya]

So according to you there are no cards out at developers and partners and nv suddenly doesn't inform anyone.

actually they (AIBs) still dont have any cards at all i heard

You need to focus man
AI enabled = botmatch ( like somebody is playing the game and does all the ai calculations )
AI disabled = flyby

heh, was way late last night

Maybe neliz = Jen-Hsun Huang? How can you be sure on ze interwebz?!

Thx, but it was doomed to happen, anyways. Nobody can act as sure as him without proper documentation.

EDIT:
It is always fun to predicts the trends, and make some educated guess and assumption, but acting too sure about a unreleased product is not the proper way to act.

let me put it this way.. transistor per transistor nvidia has higher efficiency/performance than ati whether you agree or not like it or not.. you guys can turn blue it aint gonna change

depends at what perf segment you look at... for some reason cypress doesnt seem to scale very well, especially if you look at the 5970...

I only care because none of them offer what I want. (That being a decent >1GB card).

My only hope is Ati "canned" the "six" 2GB HD5870 to make something new and shiny, like say perhaps a 2GB (across the range) 5890 which is clocked @ 1Ghz and has faster memory and a few tweaks here and there...

And that Fermi has 1.5GB (at least) with some versions/editions offering 3GB!
John

beats me why no single AIB has launched a 2GB 5870

Just curious, couldn't you just buy one of those 5870 "six" (when they come out) and overclock it a bit?

1. its not even released, let alone widely available
2. i dont think he gives a damn about 6 monitor support, so why should he pay extra for that? on the contrary, you end up with mini dp connectors so you need an adapter for every display you hook up to it...

20%...

fully functional? thats 250$ a piece... thats just about good enough to not lose money on a 500$ card isnt it?

You may be able to verify some of his info, but he doesn't even allow others to be optimistic, while he himself acts to know everything in such a details that ha can't get surprised . All this without showing any benchmarks or documentation about his claims. He says::

I personally require benchmarks and documentation for this kind of bold claims, otherwise i don't take it serious. You can consider it as good info if you want.

so when you go out on a date you ask her to prove that shes really single and actually female before talking to her, right?

geez, just take it for what it is... take it or leave it...

I'm just warning people here that think that GF100 will be [strike]God's[/strike]nVidia's gift to man. If it was, it would've been last year.. not anymore. We're talking about an expensive, marginal (10-30%) upgrade over HD5870

cheers

if price wouldnt be an issue, i think most people would def go with a fermi instead of a 5970... even if its slower... i hope ati has a faster single card up their sleeves...

[neliz]

Ohh you all come on, i know neliz from back in rage3d and even in those days he was more of a supporter than anything else.

And I thought G70/71 would be the first 512-bit GPU (turned out it was 2x256) boy.. did NV fool me there

edit: on the Jen-Hsun Huang thing.. ugh...m.. mmh.. I am
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[FischOderAal]

if price wouldnt be an issue, i think most people would def go with a fermi instead of a 5970... even if its slower... i hope ati has a faster single card up their sleeves...

Of course and I know why: CF and SLI plain SUCKS! There are quite a few people that buy the fastest gfx with one GPU on the market, no matter the costs. You're much less dependant on drivers and bugfixes compared to dual-gpu-solutions.

[Piotrsama]

While we are at it.... I'll take the chance to ask Neliz if he has some information on how's ATI going to counter the fermi release...
Will it "only" be a 5870 with 2GB? Maybe with improved clocks?
Thanks.

[neliz]

While we are at it.... I'll take the chance to ask Neliz if he has some information on how's ATI going to counter the fermi release...
Will it "only" be a 5870 with 2GB? Maybe with improved clocks?
Thanks.

There will be a "new" single GPU product coming positioned against GF100. coincidentally, it's projected release back in August 2009 was.. March 2010

[Biker]

...and any news on 2gb framebuffer variants?

I'm not dropping cash until I can buy a single gpu 2gb framebuffer 5870 / fermi / whatever the soon to be revealed fermi competitor is .....

Also like some others here I am pretty suprised that there are no 2gb 5850 or 5870's around .... why is this the case?

[neliz]

...and any news on 2gb framebuffer variants?

I'm not dropping cash until I can buy a single gpu 2gb framebuffer 5870 / fermi / whatever the soon to be revealed fermi competitor is .....

Also like some others here I am pretty suprised that there are no 2gb 5850 or 5870's around .... why is this the case?

For now only the Eyefinity6 edition. Just like before, the Gigabyte and MSI OC cards only will have 1GB. (although the MSI board is remarkebly shorter than the normal 5870.)

[flippin_waffles]

There will be a "new" single GPU product coming positioned against GF100. coincidentally, it's projected release back in August 2009 was.. March 2010

Charlie mentioned something about Sunspot or Sunburst I think as codenames, but hard to understand what he was talking about there. Does that sound familiar?

[KingOfsorroW]

When you have insider info life becomes so much easier. thanks neliz, what you say matches up my expectations quite well

edit:
by the way, any rumors about some big deal concerning nvidia floating around by any chance? ... that may influence the structure of the company in some way ?...

[JohnZS]

My newsletter came today

The next generation of NVIDIA GeForce GPU is coming – and it’s built for the ultimate gaming experience
Code named GF100, the upcoming addition to the GeForce lineup will deliver unparalleled 3D realism, brilliant Microsoft DirectX 11 graphics, and immersive NVIDIA® 3D Vision™ gaming; all with incredible performance. And yes, it’s ok to drool.

Some gumf is linked to here too .

Packing in 3 billion transistors, double the CUDA cores of previous generation GPUs¹, a high speed GDDR5 memory interface, and full DirectX 11 support, GF100 is designed for groundbreaking graphics performance. With a revolutionary new scalable geometry pipeline and enhanced anti-aliasing capabilities, GF100 delivers both unrivalled performance and breathtaking image quality.

Seems DirectX 11 is not quite so insignificant for nVidia now

Ray tracing:

GF100 brings interactive ray tracing to the consumer market for the first time, providing a glimpse into the future of visual realism in games. By tracing the path of light through a 3D scene, ray tracing uses the power of the GPU to create spectacular, photo-realistic visuals. Thanks to the innovative unified cache architecture in GF100, ray tracing runs up to 4 times faster than prior generation GPUs.

John

[neliz]

A shame that the they forget to mention the cut down DP performance