GT300 is codenamed Fermi

[Ancient76]

http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/15713/1/

Named after a nuclear reactor


The chip that we ended up calling GT300 has internal codename Fermi. The name might suit it well as Enrico Fermi was the chap that came up with the first nuclear reactor.

The new Nvidia chip is taped out and running, and we know that Nvidia showed it to some important people. The chip should be ready for very late 2009 launch. This GPU will also heavily concentrate on parallel computing and it will have bit elements on chip adjusted for this task. Nvidia plans to earn a lot of money because of that.

The chip supports GDDR5 memory, has billions of transistors and it should be bigger and faster than Radeon HD 5870. The GX2 dual version of card is also in the pipes. It's well worth noting that this is the biggest architectural change since G80 times as Nvidia wanted to add a lot of instructions for better parallel computing.

The gaming part is also going to be fast but we won’t know who will end up faster in DirectX 11 games until we see the games. The clocks will be similar or very close to one we've seen at ATI's DirectX 11 card for both GPU and memory but we still don't know enough about shader count and internal structure to draw any performance conclusions.


Of course, the chip supports DirectX 11 and Open GL 3.1

Nuclear reactor :)

[josiahsuarez]

hopefully there will be some DX11 benchmarks by the time this arrives

[hell_of_doom227]

As I said, the card is going to be a monster. 512bit bus with GDDR5 and some enormous shader processing power. Also it will be 100-$150 more expensive then HD5870 but also faster for about 40% across the board.

[Revs]

Nuclear reactor :)

Water cooling required?? :dance: :D

[Lfctony]

As I said, the card is going to be a monster. 512bit bus with GDDR5 and some enormous shader processing power. Also it will be 100-$150 more expensive then HD5870 but also faster for about 40% across the board.

Yes, as stated by your crystal ball... :headexplode:

[Ancient76]

Welcome to the Chernobyl zone :)

[Sazar]

How is that named after a nuclear reactor?

:confused:

I know fudzilla specializes in fud and sensationalism but come on, this is a little ridiculous.

[josiahsuarez]

How is that named after a nuclear reactor?

:confused:



"Enrico Fermi was the chap that came up with the first nuclear reactor."

[Sazar]

"Enrico Fermi was the chap that came up with the first nuclear reactor."

So how again is that the same as naming it after a nuclear reactor? They talk about Fermi in the article, they talk about him being the father of the nuclear reactor, they make no mention of the actual nuclear power plant I link to below.

I'm just stating that it is ridiculous to go for sensational headlines with nothing to back it up in the article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Fermi_Nuclear_Generating_Station

(lee)

[nekrosoft13]

Fermi Labs, few about 10 miles from me
http://www.fnal.gov/

good sign ;)

[hectorsm]

Welcome to the Chernobyl zone :)

A gpu core meltdown? :D

[Sazar]

Welcome to the Chernobyl zone :)

http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/9451/845029-get_out_of_here_stalker_super.jpg

[AdamK47]

As I said, the card is going to be a monster. 512bit bus with GDDR5 and some enormous shader processing power. Also it will be 100-$150 more expensive then HD5870 but also faster for about 40% across the board.

I thought it used 384 bit GDDR5.

[walterman]

I thought it used 384 bit GDDR5.

I hope not, too narrow for my taste :)

But i think that you are right. People at B3D is talking about a 384bit MC. :thumbdwn:

[AdamK47]

I hope not, too narrow for my taste :)

But i think that you are right. People at B3D is talking about a 384bit MC. :thumbdwn:

It's still wider than Ati's 256 bit.

[Fotis]

IMHO 512bit + GDDR5 is overkill.384bit will be plenty enough and be easier(chip+ pcb complexity) to make!:)

[GitDat]

http://los40.cl/images/fergi01120.jpg

Kewl :cool: Fergi is hot

[jlippo]

IMHO 512bit + GDDR5 is overkill.384bit will be plenty enough and be easier(chip+ pcb complexity) to make!:)
If it can saturate the memory bandwidth, it isn't enough.
I wouldn't mind something like 48-64 ROPs with some sweet enchantments. ;)

[walterman]

It's still wider than Ati's 256 bit.

Yes, but, it won't allow me to use 16xS instead of SSAA 2x2 with the framerate that i want. :(

[LydianKnight]

Official specs are finally released ^_^

nVidia GT300's Fermi architecture unveiled: 512 cores, up to 6GB GDDR5 (http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2009/9/30/nvidia-gt300s-fermi-architecture-unveiled-512-cores2c-up-to-6gb-gddr5.aspx)

Still we need some information about clock speed and power consumption, but hey, at least the main info is already out

The only downside is I'll have to go 64bit with 1.5GB (because I have 4GB), not what I expected but still great :zombie:

[LordJuanlo]

If this information is true... I want to preorder it now :)

What a monster!!!

[slaWter]

Hope this is true.... big time :drooling:

[TheANIMAL]

Wow, that really sounds promising

Ferni architecture natively supports C [CUDA], C++, DirectCompute, DirectX 11, Fortran, OpenCL, OpenGL 3.1 and OpenGL 3.2.

This sounds like its almost worthy of doing away with the CPU altogher. Probably wont work like that in practice, but that's what it looks like.

[JH24]

Wow, what a beast! I wonder what kind of performance this card has to offer. I look forward to find out more.

[Ancient76]

Nvidia to show DX 11 Fermi today.

Written by Fuad Abazovic.
Wednesday, 30 September 2009 09:38




As real as it can get

Nvidia will show its DirectX 11 card that we used to call GT300 and that everyone internally calls Fermi. The hardware is real and we will learn much more about it tomorrow. We expect that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang will demonstrate the card at the GTC keynote that should start at 1.00 PM Pacific time or roughly 10 PM Central European time.

Fermi will concentrate a lot of a computing processing and it should be very fast with DirectX 11 and older games. Fermi has a lot of cache and supports instructions that use to be common only for CPU and many people believe that this is a hybrid between a graphics card and a CPU. This might be the direction that Nvidia will be heading.

We will know more after todays keynote but we can confirm that the card is real and that Nvidia will talk about it today. This is the reaction that we all expected, something that might shadow the sales of Radeon HD 5870 series.