We can speculate as much as we want, but my guess is nVidia cancelled the Gual GPU GF104 solution for one of three factors.
1) It is not that competitive compared to ATi's Dual GPU solution
2) The costs did not warrant the product going into full production.
3) The power and thermal requirements for the card might be just too high.
Either way, something is coming from the land of nVidia very soon.
As to what it is and how it performs nobody knows, but what I can say is that nVidia would have learned from the GTX 480 launch and will have listened to what the PC community want at large.
I would sadly suspect to see a decrease in the amount of computational progress by the next GPU (compared to the huge leap from G200 to GF100) however I would expect to see performance increases in DirectX11 and D3D10 games as the cards are more geared towards gaming.
Don't get me wrong, it would still be a good folder and cruncher, just nVidia would like to encourage people to move into the land of Tesla for their computational work.
Anyway I wonder what the next Quadro is going to be... Hmmm rumours suggest it would be of the GF104 flavour with 4GB of RAM and 384SP, but nobody has seen such a thing...
Either way that would suggest what GPU would eventually end up in the land of the desktop market.
John
Originally Posted by JohnZS
We can speculate as much as we want, but my guess is nVidia cancelled the Gual GPU GF104 solution for one of three factors.
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