Fermi GPU details to be released at....

[Ironza]

Originally Posted by Hunt3r

Most likely, Fermi will fail, to be honest.

It seems like it's built for GPGPU first, GPU second. Throw in the fact that currently it's big enough to make TSMC struggle with it, and the fact that it doesn't have a dedicated tessellation unit means that the unified shader units have to take the load, and that means that it will have a performance hit.

Not trying to be a downer, but it's going to be too slow, too big, and too hot.

Big. Most defenitely. Hot. Defenitely. Slow? Nobodies really sure!

Completely valid opinion, alot of people I've spoken to share the same views and I partly do as well.


Only time will tell.

[Ironza]

Found a lovely little link that sums up a negative view of the card. It mostly talks about it's manufacturability, power costs, graphical power and performance. It made me think bit and could easily make you believe that these cards are quite Over-hyped indeed, although this is quite a Pro-AMD view, it's still a good read.

I'm sure there are arguments against this view from Pro-nvidia users but I'll try and post some a bit later.

http://www.semiaccurate.com/2010/01/...anufacturable/

[[R-CON]Tim270]

Just waiting for this so 5xxx prices drop down a bit.

[ryan d ale]

Originally Posted by Tim270

Just waiting for this so 5xxx prices drop down a bit.

Aye.

I hear you on that one

Although because of the nature of the card it might not drop prices how new cards normally. The card isn't exactly going to be a favorable option for even most of the high-end gamer market (or so it would seem...). It could prove more succesful in industrial applications than being a leisure toy for the filthy rich

[VoXiNaTiOn]

Originally Posted by SharpSilver

Found a lovely little link that sums up a negative view of the card. It mostly talks about it's manufacturability, power costs, graphical power and performance. It made me think bit and could easily make you believe that these cards are quite Over-hyped indeed, although this is quite a Pro-AMD view, it's still a good read.

I'm sure there are arguments against this view from Pro-nvidia users but I'll try and post some a bit later.

http://www.semiaccurate.com/2010/01/...anufacturable/

Semi accurate is the most anti-nVidia source ever, don't trust much that comes from there. And as the URL states, all info is semi-accurate, in other words some stuff is slightly fabricated so that the guy can get some more hits to his site.