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[desiibond]

ATI Radeon HD 5670 pictures and test results on the net now

Source: *techpowerup.com/109618/ATI_Radeon_HD_5670_Pictured_Detailed_and_Tested.html

AMD's lower-mainstream DirectX 11 compliant graphics card slated for Q1-2010, the ATI Radeon HD 5670 has been pictured and detailed, sourced from a [H]ardOCP HardForum community member. The HD 5600 series is based on a 40 nm GPU codenamed "Redwood". From the specifications the GPU-Z screenshot shows, it has a 50% downscaled SIMD engine, with 400 stream processors, while it retains the 128-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, with 16 ROPs. Assuming the clock speeds shown in the screenshot to be the reference speeds, they are 775 MHz for the core, and 1000 MHz for the 1 GB of memory (resulting in 64 GB/s of memory bandwidth).

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[tkin]

Fermi-Based GeForce 100 Pictured in SLI Setup

Twitter picture shows Fermi cards operating in SLI configuration

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Even though the launch of the next-generation CUDA architecture known as Fermi was postponed until next year, it seems that there are already working samples of the GeForce 100 Fermi-based graphics cards. Earlier today, a picture was posted on NVIDIA's twitter page, which showed the NVIDIA Director of Technical Marketing, Tom Peterson, holding a working system using two GF100 cards in an SLI configuration.

NVIDIA is somewhat behind AMD/ATI in the area of products aimed at the high-end graphics market. The GPU manufacturer decided to use this twitter picture as a means of rekindling end-users' anticipations for its own product, in the wake of the Radeon HD 5970 mania. Still, NVIDIA might benefit from this delay by having the AMD card as a subject of comparison. Also, the HD 5970 mania will likely tone down (at least somewhat) by January, which means that the consumer interest in Fermi might actually end up greater than if the actual release had been done sooner.

The GeForce 100 will be the first graphics card from NVIDIA to use the next-generation CUDA. The card employs a 40nm chip with 512 CUDA cores, GDDR5 VRAM and has DirectX 11 support and a memory interface of 384 bits. The card also has the Fermi features of the NVIDIA Parallel DataCache technology and the NVIDIA GigaThread engine.

The Radeon HD 5970 graphics card has stirred much admiration among consumers worldwide and this, in turn, has likely raised the general expectations concerning the upcoming Fermi architecture. NVIDIA has to deal with the pressure of developing a technology capable of yielding graphics adapters with performance capabilities at least on par with those of the Hemlock.

A clear release date for the Fermi architecture has yet to be revealed. The technology will debut sometime during the first quarter of 2010. It is possible that the samples will be demonstrated at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show, but this has yet to be confirmed. Still, the architecture itself is very complex, likely the most ambitious project on NVIDIA's part so far, which also explains the rather large size of the actual GF100 (about 10.5 inches long).

Regardless of rumors, however, the mere fact that there are working samples of the NVIDIA GF100 Fermi card shows that the actual technology has progressed quite far and is already in testing stage. This means that hopefuls might not have to keep waiting for as long as they had originally thought.

 

[Nithu]

The GeForce 100 will be the first graphics card from NVIDIA to use the next-generation CUDA. The card employs a 40nm chip with 512 CUDA cores, GDDR5 VRAM and has DirectX 11 support and a memory interface of 384 bits. The card also has the Fermi features of the NVIDIA Parallel DataCache technology and the NVIDIA GigaThread engine.

 

[Krow]

Marketing Director?

 

[MetalheadGautham]

nVidia is MAD I say, ABSOLUTELY MAD.

>> First 300 series GPUs are rebranded 40mm 200 series DirectX 10.1 parts.
>> First Fermi series GPUs are in 100 series.

I thought nVidia would altleast learn from all the former facepalm inspiring branding/rebranding activities that GeForce 300 SHOULD have been a FERMI - EXCLUSIVE series SANS REBRANDS.

 

[desiibond]

AMD readying 5800 mobility processors?
Source: *developer.amd.com/drivers/pc_vendor_id/pages/default.aspx

Check this image:

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It seems AMD is working on 5800 M processors but given that 48xx never really saw the light of day, I am a bit not sure whether AMD will bring these out or not. But if they go aggressive and put these up on high availability for laptop makers, it's gonna be one hell of a thing.

 

[tkin]

NVIDIA Fermi GF100 Video Cards To Support 32x Anti-Aliasing Mode

NVIDIA has been releasing all sorts of GeForce GF100 Fermi video cards facts on Facebook and Twitter for the past month. Tonight they just posted up that the GF100 supports a brand new 32x anti-aliasing mode for ultra high-quality gaming! This is an interesting piece of news and at this rate it will be curious to see what secrets of the card they have not mentioned!

NVIDIA GeForce GF100 Fermi Video Card Facts:

1.GF100 is the codename for the first GeForce GPU based on the Fermi architecture!
2.The GF100 board is 10.5-inches long -- the same length as GeForce GTX 200 Series graphics cards!
3.GF100 packs in over 3B (billion!) transistors
4.The GF100 supports full hardware decode on the GPU for 3D Blu-Ray
5.GF100 graphics cards will provide hardware support for GPU overvoltaging for extreme overclocking!
6.GF100 supports a brand new 32x anti-aliasing mode for ultra high-quality gaming!

 

[NVIDIAGeek]

^Wow! Awesome news for us! Better than GT200, eh? DX11? I'm droolin' seein' this news.

 

[tkin]

^Wow! Awesome news for us! Better than GT200, eh? DX11? I'm droolin' seein' this news.

If it supports 32x that means it can play games @ 32x, so performance should be through the roof for this GPU.

 

[NVIDIAGeek]

^I don't care 'bout AA, just 2x or 4x is enough 'cause I ain't a HD user. Waitin' for NVIDIA GF160!

 

[tkin]

^I don't care 'bout AA, just 2x or 4x is enough 'cause I ain't a HD user. Waitin' for NVIDIA GF160!

Me too, but they better hurry up, looks like a sub 512 core card(448 shaders) will launch first, namely the GF360 or GF160 followed by lower editions. Dual GPU version likely on Q3 09.

 

[NVIDIAGeek]

^I have hope in NVIDIA. It better come before Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Ye think games newly announced will use DX11? I mean not postponed games like Splinter Cell: Conviction. May GF3(1)60 be 16K.

 

[topgear]

Report: Nvidia Delays Fermi to March 2010

Hold on to this Fermi until March, will ya?

Fermi is Nvidia's next big thing. Nvidia bills Fermi as an entirely new ground-up design that will finally realize the potential of GPU computing – using the graphics card for more than just pushing pixels and driving them to your display.

"It is completely clear that GPUs are now general purpose parallel computing processors with amazing graphics, and not just graphics chips anymore," said Jen-Hsun Huang, co-founder and CEO of Nvidia. "The Fermi architecture, the integrated tools, libraries and engines are the direct results of the insights we have gained from working with thousands of CUDA developers around the world. We will look back in the coming years and see that Fermi started the new GPU industry."

The Fermi GPU will pack 3 billion transistors, making it one mammoth chip - bigger than anything from ATI - but with that ambition comes challenges.

If this Digitimes report is to be believed, Nvidia has hit a snag or two in its plans to launch Fermi and has now pushed back the date to March 2010.

Digitimes' sources also noted that ATI is expected to launch the 40nm Radeon HD 5670/5570 (Redwood) and HD 5450 (Cedar) GPUs at the end of January or in February 2010.

*www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-geforce-fermi-delay-gpu,9326.html

 

[comp@ddict]

NVidia will launch Fermi in March09

ATi is planning HD5890 and HD5950(dual chip) I guess to counter them..

 

[NVIDIAGeek]

^I hope the mainstream Fermis will be priced good. :C_oath:

---------- Post added at 03:22 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:12 PM ----------

^I hope the mainstream Fermis will be priced good. :C_oath:

 

[ssk_the_gr8]

nvidia is going to lose a lot of money in q1 2010....cuz good availability will definitely come in q2 & with the gr8 TSMC at work.. we can expect even more delays

 

[JojoTheDragon]

NVIDIA Fermi GF100 Video Cards To Support 32x Anti-Aliasing Mode

OMG! Somebody pinch me. Its too good to be true.

 

[NVIDIAGeek]

Nvidia Fermi: GF100 coming to CES

According to the latest rumors the latest rumors Nvidia will launch the long expected DirectX 11 graphics card GF100 Fermi in March. Now it has been revealed that a sneak peek of the new card will be given at the CES 2010 in Las Vegas. Just recently the appropriate announcement was published on Nvidia's Facebook site.
"Happy New Year to all GeForce Fans!!! Oh, and there will be a sneak peek of GF100 at our booth at CES in Las Vegas next week. Stop by and say hi!"
What exactly will be on display at the trade show has not been revealed of course. Some time ago there had already been pictures of two Fermi cards running in an SLI setup.

Excerpt from PCGamesHardware.com

Come on, NVIDIA!! Yeah!

 

[NVIDIAGeek]

More "leaked" GF100 news comin' through. Woohoo!

GF100 outperforms ATi's 5870 by 46% on average
GF100 outperforms ATi's 5970 by 8% on average

The GF100 gets 148 fps in DiRT2
The GF100 gets 73 fps in Crysis2
The GF100 gets 82 fps in AvP3

*GTX misnomers removed due to Business NDA*

GF100's maximum load temperature is 55 C.

The release week of GF100 is Mar 02nd

GF100 and GF104 will feature a new 32x Anti Aliasing mode for enthusiast setups.
GF100 and GF104 can do 100% hardware based decoding for 1080p BluRay and H264 playback.
GF100 and GF104 feature full SLi capability and a new scaling method for rendering!
GF100 and GF104 will provide full on chip native C++ operation for Windows and Linux environments. This will be further augmented with CUDA and OpenCL.
GF104 will feature new technology designed for UHD OLED monitors!
GF100 promises to deliver at least 40% more performance than the GTX295 for less money. GF104 promises double that.

Phucin' awesome, if it's true. *exaggerated sigh*

 

[tkin]

More "leaked" GF100 news comin' through. Woohoo!



Phucin' awesome, if it's true. *exaggerated sigh*

Don't mind, but what's the source? A lot of false rumors being circulated about Fermi, a 448 shader GPU beats the HD5970 is hard to believe.