Update: March 24, 2010
In only a few days Nvidia is going to launch Fermi and more and more information about the forthcoming graphics cards is leaked to the World Wide Web. The latest hoax even delivers faked PC Games Hardware benchmarks that some blockhead has created illegally.
According to the latest reports the new Fermi cards will have the following specifications:
• GTX 470: 448 CUDA Cores, 1280 MiByte GDDR5 VRAM, 607/1215/3348 MHz (GPU/Shader/VRAM)
• GTX 480: 480 CUDA Cores, 1536 MiByte GDDR5 VRAM, 700/1401/3696 MHz (GPU/Shader/VRAM)
Furthermore the latest reports say that the GTX 470 and the GTX 480 will be available on March 26, 2010 for 349 respectively 499 USD. There are also several new pictures that show cards of Nvidia's board partners as well as a disassembled Fermi graphics card (see our picture gallery at the end of the page).
Update: March 5, 2010
People who had hoped that Nvidia would use the Cebit as a laumch platform forthe forthcoming GF100 graphicsc ards might be a little disappointed. Officially there have only been some Systea PCs with GTX 480 inside that were running the Supersonic Sled demo at several booths - "guards” included.
Geforce GTX 480: 3D Vision Surround
As a member of the press you had a chance to get more information about the GTX 480 and PC Games Hardware played Need for speed: Shift in 3D Vision Surround on a GTX 480 SLI system. Each of the three displays had a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels and thus the overall resolution added up to 5760 x 1080. Tom Petersen, chief of technical marketing at Nvidia, explained to us that the developers are targeting about 60 frames per second with the final drivers. During our visit the demo wasn't running that fast yet, but except a little lag when switching into the 3D mode the game was running smooth and delivered a quite realistic 3D impression.
