NVIDIA GF100 & Friends speculation

Can we at least know if the Fermi based GeForce products, are inline with some of the speculation around here ?

 

it has a compelling 40% lead in HeatMark 2010?

given that speculations in this thread have ranged all over the map, the reality of it must lie somewhere inline with some of that. otherwise, anyone who really knows anything is bound by nda or professional courtesy.

oh, I too am dieing to know some hard facts... but that won't really happen until independent reviewers are given actual cards.

 

Oh I thought you were referring to something that actually happened.

I think there are enough claims about Fermi floating around already Whether Nvidia knew or not isn't particularly interesting though as the result is the same.

 

since I can't sleep I'll post the latest rumours - Fudzilla is claiming 20% chip yields currently, and that the gf100 is 20% faster than the 5870.

http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/17205/1/

fud is a bit more reputable than a poster on an internet gaming forum, but not by too much

 

NVIDIA GF100 pre-release speculation

20% faster seems alot more reasonable than some of the other claims though

 

If indeed it is just 20% faster, the GTX 360 should end up quite close to 5870, which will be bad as a ~550mm2 chip is going up against a 334mm2 chip.

NV will prolly try to stem the losses by restricting the supply to consumer markets. It's a shame that AMD has no real traction in the professional and HPC markets so far despite having more efficient gpu's for ~1.5 yrs now.

 

And the 5870 is roughly (I said roughly, dont bite my head off) 20% faster than a gtx285
so fermi is 40% faster than a gtx285
thats bloody terrible the new gen is only 40% faster than the last, bloody terrible..

 

That makes is 45%, not 40.

Did you also think it was bloody terrible when 5870 turned out to be approximately 35-40% faster than the last generation?

 

NVIDIA GF100 pre-release speculation

I've started a new thread to keep the GF100 product pre-release noise away from the architecture discussion. So, have at it, and please try and add some value. I'll slowly move the non-architecture posts from the other thread over here as time goes by, so the arch one can be archived as something useful.

Latest rumour mill stuff had the first GeForce product at 20% higher than 5870. Rumour courtesy of Fudzilla.

 

IS the 5870 only 35-40% faster than the 4870 and 4890 ?


Anyway both of these companys have added alot more to these chips than there was on dx 10 chips. hopefully this will amount to better visual quality and speed when developers start using it.

 

Yeah, almost like Cypress to RV770.

 

Rys shouldn't have moved that piece of misinfomation...
Cypress has more like 70% higher framerates(*) than rv770, and ~40%, not 20% over gtx285 - http://www.computerbase.de/artikel/...009/18/#abschnitt_performancerating_qualitaet
So 20% over 5870 would actually be a slightly higher generational gain (over gtx280) than cypress over rv770.

(*) Ofcourse the card (and especially chip) is faster than that, but system limitations et al. in current games...

 

Depends on what you're doing and how you're doing it, mostly. I'd not expect things to be hugely different with Fermi (in that the distance from GT2xx stuff will be variable).

 

Something weird with the 4890 numbers, going from 4xAA/8xA to 8xAA/16xA. Performance increases?

4870 numbers, while not being listed for 2560x1600 aa and aniso performance, also look suspicious.

But I can't read German so maybe this was addressed?

 

They're average scores for all the tests (except batman), but some (at least stalker and world in conflict) don't have 8xAA mode/scores, so I guess that's why (ie. different set of games for 4x and 8x).

 

edit: brainfart

 

My guess would be that they only simulate the physics properties of the single components and not the whole inner workings of a rocket slegde...but that is a guess I don't have the demo myself.

 

A small piece of GF100 information from ChrisRay:

http://www.rage3d.com/board/showpost.php?p=1336134574&postcount=1573

 

Well then, let the leaks begin Chris!
[Mize starts checking for PMs]

 

So Monday is THE DAY, I heard?!