Fermi launched on paper :DCitat:
Fermi/GF100/GTX400 has been a long time coming. For an industry where the major players are usually in lockstep with each other in some fashion, this latest cycle has been distinctly out of sync. In September of 2009 we saw AMD launch their Radeon 5000 series, and spend the next 6 months as the performance leader for the discrete graphics market for virtually every price point. NVIDIA on the other hand missed the latest cycle by a mile, and when AMD was delivering 5000 series cards NVIDIA could only talk about the High Performance Computing applications of their next GPU, Fermi. It would be the next big thing, both figuratively and literally.
To wrap things up, let’s start with the obvious: NVIDIA has reclaimed their crown – they have the fastest single-GPU card. The GTX 480 is between 10 and 15% faster than the Radeon 5870 depending on the resolution, giving it a comfortable lead over AMD’s best single-GPU card.
AMD’s 2GB Radeon 5870, which will be launching soon. We know the 1GB 5870 is RAM-limited at times, and while it’s unlikely more RAM on its own will be enough to make up the performance difference, we can’t fully rule that out until we have the benchmarks we need. If the GTX 480 doesn’t continue to end up being the fastest single-GPU card out there, we’ll be surprised.
Fermi’s compute-heavy and tessellation-heavy design continues to interest us but home users won’t find an advantage to that design today. This is a card that bets on the future and we don’t have our crystal ball. With some good consumer-oriented GPGPU programs and developers taking up variable tessellation NVIDIA could get a lot out of this card, or if that fails to happen they could get less than they hoped for. All we can do is sit and watch – it’s much too early to place our bets.
IMHO zahebali su stvar. Bigtime. Prvo sto im je yield jednocifren po nekim navodima. Cak ni full spec ne mogu da proizvedu u ovom trenutku pa okidaju core-ove. Greje se i srce ko blesav sto i nije cudo za celih 500mm^2 povrsine die-a. Toliki gpu verovatno i prouzrokuje tako nizak yield u 40nm proizvodnom procesu.
Po meni poslovace sa gubitkom i to zescim. Ne verujem da ce ih biti dovoljno na trzistu, makar ne u narednih 4-5 meseci to je sigurno. Cak je i GTX470 skuplji od 5850 a ne nudi toliko vece performanse a greje se duplo a srce za 50% vise (mozda i jace). Koliko se karta greje mozete pretpostaviti i po isecenom pcb-u sa zadnje strane i hladnjaku koji se vidi sa prednje (o 5 copper pipe-ova da ne pricam, zalman fora).
Jedino ako ih teselacija izvuce pa ce se mozda i primetiti boljitak u nekoj nvidia optimized igri ali ni to nece skoro...
Vraca se losa karma za 3dfx ;-) U ono sto sam uveren je da ce tu malu dostupnu kolicinu razgrabiti nv fan-ovi 3pujuci se da imaju supercomputing zivotinju u kucistu. Na tu kartu i igra nvidia, pravili su hype-a oko ovoga i van Stevinih proporcija.
E Tesla, sta doceka...
make love - !war
