Nvidia Fermi Production and Availability

[tuannguyen]

Just a quick update regarding more information on Nvidia's upcoming Fermi GPU:

Nvidia Fermi Production and Availability : Read more

 

[beergoggles]

Yay(?)

 

[CrashOverride90]

finally...AMD's already owning with its DirectX 11 cards...

Is this going to be too little too late thing for NVIDIA??

 

[math1337]

The GT 220 and 240 were DX11 GPUs.

 

[meat81]

Low Quantities, no shock there... Cmon already I want one!

 

[trinix]

[citation][nom]math1337[/nom]The GT 220 and 240 were DX11 GPUs.[/citation]
10.1, not 11. Nvidia doesn't have dx11 cards yet.

 

[IzzyCraft]

4% well that's better then 2 3 1 or 0 nvidia seemed to choose a bad time to do their major transition and die shrink.

 

[doc70]

heating problem solved?
Then it would be interesting...

 

[jjchmiel78]

And at what cost? Unless they have 5970 performance at 5850 prices, there is no need to upgrade from my 5770 until next winter. I assume this will be the case for many of us 2 million that already bought ATI cards.

 

[CrashOverride90]

[citation][nom]math1337[/nom]The GT 220 and 240 were DX11 GPUs.[/citation]

lol buddy which universe are you in? Last I checked

DirectX 10.1  != DirectX 11

 

[CrashOverride90]

[citation][nom]jjchmiel78[/nom]And at what cost? Unless they have 5970 performance at 5850 prices, there is no need to upgrade from my 5770 until next winter. I assume this will be the case for many of us 2 million that already bought ATI cards.[/citation]

nicee that 5770 is an amazing card! There is absolutely no need for upgrading for another couple years

 

[roofus]

yea 4% yield is impressive. full speed ahead!

 

[Otus]

"happy at 4-percent yield"

Last I heard they were at 40?

 

[soo-nah-mee]

@Tuan:
"worst" should be "worse" - 2nd paragraph.

 

[Anthelvar]

I've been patiently waiting for both companies to have their products released before I make any decisions. But I've got a bad R600 feeling about this one. Hopefully I'm wrong.

 

[Anthelvar]

I want multimonitor with 3D. Thats the ticket, man!

 

[SethEffect]

Sombody help me understand exactly what a 4% yield means, is that good or bad? =P

 

[Gin Fushicho]

Soooooo..... Does this mean Benchmarks soon?

 

[yang]

[citation][nom]SethEffect[/nom]Sombody help me understand exactly what a 4% yield means, is that good or bad? =P[/citation]

out of 100 chips they make, 4% are up to the specification

 

[NapoleonDK]

Fermi will go into production starting in the 3rd week of February, and be available in "low quantities" starting mid-march.

This whole article is a tease, but it brings up a question that I hadn't thought of until now. Which Fermi-based card are we going to see first? The G380? And when will hardware review sites like Tom's get reference cards to test? Maybe late February?

 

[Hellbound]

All I care about is how well it performs.. GIVE US NUMBERS ALREADY!!!!

 

[kravmaga]

Actually yes, I think that's exactly what it means.
This news is saying they are officially 5 weeks away from full production, meaning they are satisfied with what they're getting from the foundry and probably going to be able to send out samples that meet the specs. This is the moment of truth.

Now whether it can beat the massive expectations that all this tardiness built up is another question.

 

[bk420]

At least it's going to be produced soon, tad late, but better than never.
Can't wait! 😀

 

[dale223223]

Well they could at least tell us if the cards are going to be 2GB standard or not.

 

[HavoCnMe]

Waiting for the lineup.......hopefully it will come in the next few weeks.

Fingers Crossed!