first picture of an actual Fermi board

[josiahsuarez]

http://www.nvidia.com/object/io_1258360868914.html
PORTLAND, Ore.— SC09—Nov. 16, 2009—NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA) today unveiled the Tesla 20-series of parallel processors for the high performance computing (HPC) market, based on its new generation CUDA™ processor architecture, codenamed “Fermi”.

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The Tesla C2050 and C2070 products will retail for $2,499 and $3,999 and the Tesla S2050 and S2070 will retail for $12,995 and $18,995. Products will be available in Q2 2010. For more information about the new Tesla 20-series products, visit the Tesla product pages.

Editors’ note: As previously announced, the first Fermi-based consumer (GeForce®) products are expected to be available first quarter 2010.

also http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/SC09-Tesla-Rechenkarten-mit-Fermi-Chips-860474.html

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e16/josiahsuarez/Tesla_C2050-C2070_1929-3qtr-1dbfd11.jpg

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e16/josiahsuarez/Tesla_C2050-C2070_1915-B-d19bd4a05c.jpg

[grey_1]

The Tesla C2050 and C2070 products will retail for $2,499 and $3,999 and the Tesla S2050 and S2070 will retail for $12,995 and $18,995. Products will be available in Q2 2010. For more information about the new Tesla 20-series products, visit the Tesla product pages.

Wow...my heart just skipped a beat....:o

[DiscipleDOC]

Wow...my heart just skipped a beat....:o

JaKuP will have two in his 'puter by the beginning of the year...:bleh:

[Revs]

How do they justify the high price tag? What do these cards do the a stock graphics card won't?

Also, Ive just noticed the 8 and 6 pin power plugs. Does that mean the gaming cards will have the same?

[josiahsuarez]

How do they justify the high price tag? What do these cards do the a stock graphics card won't?


there is a different set of drivers, that are certified for accuracy in various professional applications like Maya and Pro/ENGINEER. they really have no value for gaming though.

[AthlonXP1800]

Great Fermi card will fit in my case so hope it will bundle 8 pin power cable adapter. (nana2)

[LydianKnight]

The layout for the power connectors is still weird to me, looks like the infamous fake card minus the correct DVI connector :zombie:

[Noriega]

Looks like another fake to me

[nekrosoft13]

The layout for the power connectors is still weird to me, looks like the infamous fake card minus the correct DVI connector :zombie:

keep in mind that these are not consumer cards, these cards will probably be installed in something like this

http://www.icare3d.org/images/stories/BlogTechno/tesla1.jpg

[Heinz68]

http://www.nvidia.com/object/io_1258360868914.html


also http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/SC09-Tesla-Rechenkarten-mit-Fermi-Chips-860474.html

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e16/josiahsuarez/Tesla_C2050-C2070_1929-3qtr-1dbfd11.jpg

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e16/josiahsuarez/Tesla_C2050-C2070_1915-B-d19bd4a05c.jpg

Ladies and Gentlemen, are you sure that puppy is the real thing, looks to me something is missing there. :)

[lightman]

Looks strange to me. A dvi connector ? On a Tesla ? Makes no sense at all... (edit: I just noticed the same picture on the nvidia website, so I guess it is legit, after all)

And, grey, the price is (somewhat) justified by the ECC memory, the higher QA, and the fact that the number of cards they sell is much lower than that of the consumer ones, hence the higher price tag (and profit margin).

Moreover, $2500 and $4000 may not be so much. Right now, with $2500 you can, barely (and only if you put it together yourself), get a 2x Xeon E5520, a nice Supermicro MB, 12GB of ECC ram, plus HD; that is, a nice workstation, giving you about 72 GFlops of theoretical peak DP floating point performance.

Fermi is expected to have a peak DP performance of 520 GFlops for the 2040 model, making it (theorically) about 7.2 times faster, at the same price (not counting the price of the server/workstation). More than enough to justify the price. ;)

[Johnny C]

Ladies and Gentlemen, are you sure that puppy is the real thing, looks to me something is missing there. :)

What would you hook up to the sli connector on the top of the card? Since it's blocked by the backing plate.

[FlakMagnet]

Don't forget the 'C' versions have 3GB and 6GB RAM too. I doubt the consumer graphics cards with have this much memory. The Tesla cards might also use higher clocked memory which could bump up the price.

[nekrosoft13]

more info here

http://www.nvidia.com/object/io_1258360868914.html

[nekrosoft13]

The family of Tesla 20-series GPUs includes:

Tesla C2050 & C2070 GPU Computing Processors

Single GPU PCI-Express Gen-2 cards for workstation configurations
Up to 3GB and 6GB (respectively) on-board GDDR5 memoryi
Double precision performance in the range of 520GFlops - 630 GFlops

Tesla S2050 & S2070 GPU Computing Systems

Four Tesla GPUs in a 1U system product for cluster and datacenter deployments
Up to 12 GB and 24 GB (respectively) total system memory on board GDDR5 memoryii
Double precision performance in the range of 2.1 TFlops - 2.5 TFlops

[Viral]

Did anyone else notice the Q2 '10 release? Maybe the GTX will launch sooner but that doesn't bode well. It's looking like April at the earliest :(

[Bman212121]

Did anyone else notice the Q2 '10 release? Maybe the GTX will launch sooner but that doesn't bode well. It's looking like April at the earliest :(

The Tesla C2050 and C2070 products will retail for $2,499 and $3,999 and the Tesla S2050 and S2070 will retail for $12,995 and $18,995. Products will be available in Q2 2010. For more information about the new Tesla 20-series products, visit the Tesla product pages.

Editors’ note: As previously announced, the first Fermi-based consumer (GeForce®) products are expected to be available first quarter 2010.

The new desktop Fermi should be out by the end of March.

[-=DVS=-]

Awesome ! brb gonna sell my car and get me a single S2070 :D

[Galvin]

Sell a kidney and keep your car :P

[Sazar]

Why the heck does it still have the same screws in the back vent fan thinger as on the confirmed mock-up?

[KingOfTheJews]

That's odd how it's made in the USA. But it's probably real.

[Atomizer]

Ill be in my bunk.

[josiahsuarez]

What would you hook up to the sli connector on the top of the card? Since it's blocked by the backing plate.

I don't think the Teslas ever used the SLI connectors. here's a previous generation Tesla rack (S870)

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e16/josiahsuarez/nvidia_s870_1.jpg

[Ninja Prime]

The family of Tesla 20-series GPUs includes:

Tesla C2050 & C2070 GPU Computing Processors

Single GPU PCI-Express Gen-2 cards for workstation configurations
Up to 3GB and 6GB (respectively) on-board GDDR5 memoryi
Double precision performance in the range of 520GFlops - 630 GFlops

Tesla S2050 & S2070 GPU Computing Systems

Four Tesla GPUs in a 1U system product for cluster and datacenter deployments
Up to 12 GB and 24 GB (respectively) total system memory on board GDDR5 memoryii
Double precision performance in the range of 2.1 TFlops - 2.5 TFlops

They kinda just gave away Fermi's performance, which could be used to estimate performance for gaming. Since Fermi has 1/2 rate DP, the SP rate would be 1.1 Tflops to 1.26 Tflops, pretty crappy. It's possible the Tesla chips are underclocked slightly for stability and rack mounting, but it still wouldn't be much... hell, the SP rate on the low end isnt any higher than a GTX285 OC model? Something seems odd there...

Edit: It would, however, explain NV's recent stance of PR spam and BS and the marketing towards supercomputing instead of just paper launching and bragging the product up. If it only launches with +20-30% shader power on top of the last gen they wouldn't have much to brag about.

[Heinz68]

Fermi in trouble?
Then comes the price. A previous-gen C1060 released at $1699, falling to $1199. Compare this with fellow Geforce model, GTX 280, released at $649, falling quick to $500, and finally $300. The price of a next-gen C2070 is a whopping $3999. Nearly double the price as the previous generation C1060. Clearly, these are expensive products to make, so how much can Nvidia sell a Geforce version of Fermi for? Even the cheapest Tesla 20 variant, the C2050 costs $2499, nearly 50% more than the GT200 based C1060 flagship. Can Nvidia sell the $3999 Tesla product at $399 as a Geforce product?
The above is a quote from VR-ZONE article (http://vr-zone.com/articles/fermi-in-trouble-/8054.html?doc=8054), read much more there. I doubt the Geforce Fermi is going to be anywhere close to $399, my guess is more like $499 if not more.