Nvidia to Unleash 'Fermi' GF100 on March 26

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By the end of March I'll have a better idea if I need a GPU upgrade because of my recent monitor upgrade from 1680x1050 to 1920x1080. Fermi won't be on my radar unless 1) it is < $250 (ha!) and 2) nVidia has fixed their drivers so PhysX will run if an ATi card is also present (i.e. cooperate, or die wriggling). Still, hopefully other GPU prices will drop, at least a little.
 
I'll be at PAX East! I heard they will have some cards to sell live. I hope I won't succomb to an impulsive urge to buy.

Come meet me at PAX! I'll be drunk off my ass near the ATI booth babes. You can't miss me.
 
Yeah I can't wait. Toms will get their cherry picked GTX 480 review sample, praise PhysX, Cuda & a piece of the heaven benchmark until they are blue in the face and proclaim it is the second coming even though it narrowly beats a reference 5870.... Yeah... can't wait...

Here's to a big announcement of a big announcement....
 
[citation][nom]rhino13[/nom]Sounds exciting!Unfortunately word on the street is that nVidia will have 7,000 - 8,000 gpus availible by the end of March.Compare that to AMD's 5870 release of 100,000+ gpus. And most of us know you can still bearly get your hands on a 5870.By the time you whitle down the avalible gpus by giving them to the press nVidia will probablly have 1,000 gpus left to sell. Those things are going to be more expensive than Fararis.[/citation]

i've had no problems finding the 5870. you can find them at tiger and newegg all day everyday.
 
Hmmm, if any of you guys has been following semiaccurate, and if all the stories add up, due to all the constraints it - the GTX 480 - should only be around 5% faster than a 5870.

I guess ATI has either a 5% improvment in the graphics driver (remember the 2D fix is still not out, they might be aiming at that date to release it big time with big improvments), or.. since it will have been 6 month's since the release of the 5870, I bet they have the 5890 just waiting to welcome Nvidia hehehe
 
So Fermi launches March 26, 2010. Sweet, I guess we'll see it in stock around September 26, 2010. And still no benchmarks. Come on.

Personally, the main reason I'm waiting for Fermi is to see what it does to the market for other cards. If ATI really wants to put the pressure on, they'll capitalize on the short supply of Fermi chips by dropping the prices of the 5xxx cards right when Fermi launches (or launch another line entirely - not sure I'd be so excited about that, but we'll see what March 26-27 brings).

Until I see benchmarks and have a better idea of what the full Fermi line is going to look like, I have no reason to consider switching away from ATI.
 
[citation][nom]Sabiancym[/nom]I have a feeling ATI has something waiting for when Fermi comes out. It seems like they've been one step ahead of Nvidia everytime for the last year or so.Either way, color me excited.[/citation]

ya it wouldn't surprise me at all if ATI released something like a 5890 a little while after the 400's hit to try and hold the top single gpu slot again.

Either way competition will mean lower prices in a few months when I can afford a few upgrades.
 
[citation][nom]Sabiancym[/nom]I have a feeling ATI has something waiting for when Fermi comes out. It seems like they've been one step ahead of Nvidia everytime for the last year or so.Either way, color me excited.[/citation]

What's in the works as we speak is the HD 4890 Part II. aka 5890. Not much of anything, other than a clock bump and maybe add some transistors for better Eyefinity experience. Next gen ATi is again 40nm, kinda like Phenom (65nm) to Phenom II (45nm), except 5000 series isn't buggy and an under performer like Barcelona was. What you see now is what you get aside from a die shrink.

Catalyst 10.3 beta preview drivers are looking sweet tho. Cant' wait for the WQHL's next month. So far so good with the betas. No crashes, freezing etc... yet.
 
It was easy to know the release date of first Fermi based cards 'cause Metro 2033 - a game with the "NVIDIA®: The way it's meant to be played" logo - supporting Physx and DX11 will be released 16 March... and probably will be the bundle game for lot of packages of Fermi first iterations.

Sorry about my english... I'm from Spain.
 
It seems doubtful that ATI will have any major hardware announcements immediately upon Fermi's launch, given that they're aiming to push a new generation of cards out (Evergreen's successor, "Northern Islands" - presumably the HD 6xxx series) between Q3 2010 and 2011, according to ATI's roadmaps.

That being the case, anything other than perhaps an HD 5890, as others have suggested, would be surprising.
 
[citation][nom]mtyermom[/nom]This guy gots jokes.[/citation]

Jokes? I am not joking. Whoever gave me -2 is a buffoon. Nvidia is my choice. I never buy ATI. Right now I'm on 260 core 216. Great card. Jokes = ATI. Been waiting for this DX11 chip to come out for a while but realistically DX10 is more than sufficient even now. It is good to see Nvidia stepping it up a bit and technology moving forward. Don't rely on ATI alone. They aren't backed by the 3DFX team whom are the ones who pushed the envelope back in the day when ATI was cranking out overpriced lousy cards.
 
[citation][nom]jurassic1024[/nom]WNext gen ATi is again 40nm, kinda like Phenom (65nm) to Phenom II (45nm), except 5000 series isn't buggy and an under performer like Barcelona was. [/citation]

Uh, that is the OPPOSITE of what AMD did with the phenoms. AMD did a die shrink but no REAL architectural changes (I wouldn't call +4mb L3 a new architecture) AMD also did this with the 3000/2000 series, and Nvidia did this with the 200 series. They first offered the cards @ 65nm (80nm for the 2900xt) and shrunk the die to 55nm.

So what are you saying? Are you saying that ATI's next cards will be Cypress/Hemlock on a 28nm process? Or are you saying that ATI is going to pull an Nvidia and change the architecture while staying on the same fab process (like G92 to G200)?
 
Lets see am I excited about a video card that will likely retail for $600? NO, I'm not rich and I don't like to waist money.

Actually I am going to buy a used 4850 for $40 off craigslist. (If the guy e-mails me back and says it's still available). If not I plan on getting a used 4870 for about $85 - $90 because they are faster than the 5770 and DirectX 11 (from what I've seen) offers very little in terms of visual enhancement and a MASSIVE performance decrease.
 
I'm looking forward to benchmarks. Hopefully it'll be worthwhile to rip out the GTX295 and throw in one of these, assuming the DX11 is support is usefully quick. If it is similar to current offerings by ATI, I'll hold off until DX11 doesn't take such a hit. Nvidia or ATI, I don't care who does it, but the current offerings aren't worth purchasing yet in my opinion.

Guess I'll be thumbs-downed to -10 now for being happy about something Nvidia related. Thanks AMD/ATI fanbois for destroying the integrity of Tom's public moderation system!
 
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