The Fermi Thread - Part 3

[Picao84]

Very scalable architecture indeed!

I remember when the whitepaper came out all the fantards were all over that word. Irony.

Where do you see the architecture is not scalable? If from here they can get all derivatives out of the door by years end, its a good execution, IMO. Keep in mind GF100 had problems they had (still have?) to iron out. Probably only after that they could proceed with next tape outs...

[Sn0wm@n]

Where do you see the architecture is not scalable? If from here they can get all derivatives out of the door by years end, its a good execution, IMO. Keep in mind GF100 had problems they had (still have?) to iron out. Probably only after that they could proceed with next tape outs...

if fermi is so much scaleable why didnt they release it before that bloated big ass die that they call GF100 ???? marketing reason??? if so another fail reason by nvidia .... release what you can especially since you know fermi will be a problematic gpu ....

what i meant by fermi would be the low end part gf108 gf 106 and gf104


GF108 would have been the easiest one to do right .... yet it wont be out till late summer .....

[Picao84]

if fermi is so much scaleable why didnt they release it before that bloated big ass die that they call GF100 ???? marketing reason??? if so another fail reason by nvidia .... release what you can especially since you know fermi will be a problematic gpu ....

what i meant by fermi would be the low end part gf108 gf 106 and gf104


GF108 would have been the easiest one to do right .... yet it wont be out till late summer .....

Since when does a low end part gets released before a high end? (dont tell about 5870 vs 5970. 5970 is just two 5870 chips). The high end
is always the "proof of concept". Before it gets done and released, it would be foolish to go ahead with lower end parts.

Easiest to do? Why is that? Just because its smaller? LOL.. really LOL..

[Macadamia]

Where do you see the architecture is not scalable? If from here they can get all derivatives out of the door by years end, its a good execution, IMO. Keep in mind GF100 had problems they had (still have?) to iron out. Probably only after that they could proceed with next tape outs...

Good? Wow, you're clearly funnier than Charlie. Congrats!
Let me tell you what's proper good execution:

Enthusiast, Highend, Mid-high, midrange, midrange OEM, low-mid (and its OEM), lowend parts ALL in 6 months when the process is ing up. Oh, and 3 months before the competitor's highend part even shows up.

If the base architecture was SO scaleable why are they struggling to get ANY part out? Suuuuuuuuuuuure, big GPUs are "ing hard to build" according to nVidia, but smaller Fermis are NOT big GPUs.

They're much smaller, so why are they ed up too?

Every GPU architecture is scalable. But in reality it seems ATI has way less problems scaling their designs up OR down.

[Picao84]

Good? Wow, you're clearly funnier than Charlie. Congrats!
Let me tell you what's proper good execution:

Enthusiast, Highend, Mid-high, midrange, midrange OEM, low-mid (and its OEM), lowend parts ALL in 6 months when the process is ing up. Oh, and 3 months before the competitor's highend part even shows up.

If the base architecture was SO scaleable why are they struggling to get ANY part out? Suuuuuuuuuuuure, big GPUs are "ing hard to build" according to nVidia, but smaller Fermis are NOT big GPUs.

They're much smaller, so why are they ed up too?

Every GPU architecture is scalable. But in reality it seems ATI has way less problems scaling their designs up OR down.

Who the hell said GF108 is bad too? Like I said, it would be foolish to advance to low end parts before the high end is finished. No one does that! And for you smart ass:

GF100 is done in clusters as you know. If GF108 is one part of those clusters, in this scalable architecture, and if the clusters have/had problems in GF100, do you think it would make sence to advance for GF108??

But Ill stop feed the trolls, anyway. /Ignore

[Macadamia]

No one does that!

R600 - May 2007
RV630 - June/Jul 2007
RV610 - Aug 2007

But the competition did it just fine. RV630 and 610 would probably be even earlier if UVD wasn't problematic (it wasn't present on R600).


regarding silicon logic compartmentalization:

And there's no difference to it largely speaking. (GT200 to GT21X, Nehalem to Arrandale- yes Nehalem does it organized too) GT21X does scale down proportionately to desired performances, but it took them over a year.

You have all this fluff talk based on the same whitepaper but the dates and history (no not some revisionist history) shows otherwise.

[highoctane]

But Ill stop feed the trolls, anyway. /Ignore

You have to, there's a small band of regular anti nvidia trolls constantly trying desperately to instigate something. It won't do any good trying to argue with them because right, wrong or otherwise they're just going to hate on nvidia in any regard, might as well be pissing into the wind.