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10-18-10, 09:56 AM
Upcoming releases, competitive bickering, specification speculation/rumors, product naming controversies... things have heated up on the GPU news front this October. Although much of this activity has caused the discussion boards to heat up with a healthy mix of well-sourced information, uninformed speculation, trolling/flame wars and general excitement, the real benefits will be seen in the short term when newer, faster and more efficient technologies become available to consumers looking for a new GPU for their gaming, Folding, home workstation or Home Theater PC.
Fancy a Fermi refresh? Whether it materializes or not, the speculation that NVIDIA will be releasing a 512 CUDA core-equipped GTX 580 is creating some excitement. With a reported 128 TMUs and a 512-bit memory bus, the so-called GF100b could serve as a countermeasure to AMD's upcoming (and slightly maligned for the new and confusing product-naming system) 6-series architecture which is well on its way.
Link to story HERE (http://www.techpowerup.com/132832/NVIDIA-to-Counter-Radeon-HD-6970-Cayman-with-GeForce-GTX-580.html).
An apparent NVIDIA product roadmap has also been released, detailing information on GF110, GF112 and GF119.
http://www.ozone3d.net/public/jegx/201010/nvidia_2011_gpu_roadmap.jpg
More info HERE (http://www.hwupgrade.it/forum/showpost.php?p=33387522&postcount=544).
... and yet more information (translated GTC conversation) which possibly links this new development to the 238W Tesla C2050 HERE (http://www.hwupgrade.it/forum/showpost.php?p=33387522&postcount=544).
Every once in a while, something stokes the flames between NVIDIA and ATI (http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=235601). The most recent instance of this comes from AMD Devrel team chief Richard Huddy, who has called out NVIDIA (http://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/ironlaw/nvidia-offers-the-constant-smell-of-burning-bridges-says-amd/) for their practices relating to game development, specifically opining on what he believes to be wasteful practices when it comes to indiscriminate, over-gratuitous and pixel/performance-wasting use of tessellation for what appear to be competitive advantages. He also took the opportunity to harken back to the not-too-long-ago Batman Arkham Asylum debacle and wondered aloud if NVIDIA is putting themselves first, or gamers.
Regardless of whether Richard's opinions (http://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/ironlaw/nvidia-offers-the-constant-smell-of-burning-bridges-says-amd/) are correct, as a Devrel team chief and former NVIDIA employee he does offer some interesting perspectives. So Did NVIDIA really fund development of Stone Giant? And what of their $2M affiliation with the development of Crysis 2? NV News will report on any responses from the Green Team.
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/7474/interestingy.jpg (http://img84.imageshack.us/i/interestingy.jpg/)
Fancy a Fermi refresh? Whether it materializes or not, the speculation that NVIDIA will be releasing a 512 CUDA core-equipped GTX 580 is creating some excitement. With a reported 128 TMUs and a 512-bit memory bus, the so-called GF100b could serve as a countermeasure to AMD's upcoming (and slightly maligned for the new and confusing product-naming system) 6-series architecture which is well on its way.
Link to story HERE (http://www.techpowerup.com/132832/NVIDIA-to-Counter-Radeon-HD-6970-Cayman-with-GeForce-GTX-580.html).
An apparent NVIDIA product roadmap has also been released, detailing information on GF110, GF112 and GF119.
http://www.ozone3d.net/public/jegx/201010/nvidia_2011_gpu_roadmap.jpg
More info HERE (http://www.hwupgrade.it/forum/showpost.php?p=33387522&postcount=544).
... and yet more information (translated GTC conversation) which possibly links this new development to the 238W Tesla C2050 HERE (http://www.hwupgrade.it/forum/showpost.php?p=33387522&postcount=544).
Every once in a while, something stokes the flames between NVIDIA and ATI (http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=235601). The most recent instance of this comes from AMD Devrel team chief Richard Huddy, who has called out NVIDIA (http://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/ironlaw/nvidia-offers-the-constant-smell-of-burning-bridges-says-amd/) for their practices relating to game development, specifically opining on what he believes to be wasteful practices when it comes to indiscriminate, over-gratuitous and pixel/performance-wasting use of tessellation for what appear to be competitive advantages. He also took the opportunity to harken back to the not-too-long-ago Batman Arkham Asylum debacle and wondered aloud if NVIDIA is putting themselves first, or gamers.
Regardless of whether Richard's opinions (http://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/ironlaw/nvidia-offers-the-constant-smell-of-burning-bridges-says-amd/) are correct, as a Devrel team chief and former NVIDIA employee he does offer some interesting perspectives. So Did NVIDIA really fund development of Stone Giant? And what of their $2M affiliation with the development of Crysis 2? NV News will report on any responses from the Green Team.
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/7474/interestingy.jpg (http://img84.imageshack.us/i/interestingy.jpg/)