NVIDIA GF100 & Friends speculation

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  1. Vincent

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    Really ! :shock:


    Nvidia do need a lineup of the mid-range GPUs for its own sake.
     
  2. Jawed

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    Was that person specifically quizzed on it being the same size as GT200, rather than GT200b?

    Jawed
     
  3. trinibwoy

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    Isn't that old news? My question to Rys wasn't about the consequences of the screwup, I was asking about the screwup itself.
     
  4. neliz

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    He has been quite adamant over it's size and performance target ever since last summer. Having a spotless track record makes me go "no no no! you're doing it all wrong!" when I see GF100 being estimated a gt200b size.

    It could only be ~500mm2 if nvidia somehow managed to match amd's transistor density on 40nm (re: Richard Huddy's statement that GF100 is 50% bigger than cypress; in transistor count that would 334mm2/2,1bT : 507mm2/3,2bT if there was a 1:1 ratio)
    It would be my layman's judgment that anything north of 507mm2 would be a "safe bet"
     
  5. Rys

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    As far as I can tell, there was originally a plan to launch at CeBIT, rather than just demo there. So a push back of a few weeks, with the net result being the zero-day review coverage should be pretty aggressive in terms of number of publications with hardware. God knows what neliz is on about.
     
  6. Jawed

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    So you're saying he specifically said GT200, not GT200b. OK.

    That's just a red herring. See the recent confusion over defect density as reported by TSMC.

    "Info" from AMD should be ignored though.

    Anyway, if JHH counts as a source:

    http://forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.php?p=1343760&postcount=406

    Which makes it bigger than GT200 :razz:

    Jawed
     
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    I can't really understand why it's so damn important whether the die is 500 or 550mm2 but that's just me.
     
  8. rpg.314

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    I am assuming that it will take atleast 2 months for the midrange Fermi. If B1 ships in June/July, then it should be Aug/Sept before midrange fermi will come anywhere close to shipping. Almost a complete year behind Cypress/Juniper. More late than R600. :eek:

    On the up side, with a silicon respin, there is a good possibility of higher clocks and yields.

    On the down side, as has been speculated in the Evergreen+1 thread, new AMD parts *may* launch around that time. All in all, lot of catching up to do for nv if this is true.
     
  9. Rys

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    He could just be going on transistor count :runaway:
     
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    Strange.
    Reading this lines my 6th sense sees irony. :???:
     
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    Why in the world would it go back after the launch? Why would it not go back immediately upon deciding they would be doing another revision?
     
  12. Jawed

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    Yeah, that was suggested the last time I posted that.

    I did an estimate from the GF100 die shot of it being upto around 500mm² (I estimated 480mm² based upon the PCI Express interface, something that should be constant size across many chips):

    http://forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.php?p=1344399&postcount=483
    http://forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.php?p=1344504&postcount=499

    I should point out in retrospect that Fellix's technique, based upon GDDR5 interfaces, is no good because we now know that these interfaces change in size with target clocking.

    Jawed
     
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    they aren't done fixing the bugs yet ?
     
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    I see. So by aggressive do you mean lots of sites will have hardware in hand to review before launch? If so, bring on the leaks! :)
     
  15. Jawed

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    Presumably NVidia Focus Group members will also get their cards.

    Jawed
     
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    Jensen also stated that it would keep their margins at the same level so I'm more inclined to go with ~480mm2. As I stated the die size wasn't even revealed to AIB when we first started talking about die size and wafer counts and what not.
     
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    Given the volumes people are talking about will Fermi based products even matter in Q2 financials?
     
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    Please investors? Try to make some money from existing silicon? Try to actually convince consumers they have a product so they don't go out and buy an ATI card instead?
     
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    Not sure about lots, but more than usual I think. Looks like they're all on track to get GTX 480 SLI as well.

    So the entire working set of chips from thousands of wafers on two or three spins over many months, some chips bigger than others, with hundreds of watts of board power variation, all in the hands of websites and journalists and thus none available to the public whatsoever until July. Or is that June? Personally, I'm going for B2 in August.
     
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