With CES at hand and the proposed release of March 2010 imminent, it's quite possible that Nvidia will give full disclosure on specs and benchmarks of its GT300 series quite soon. Why is this exciting? It's been speculated that Nvidia's heavily delayed next generation of cards with their new architecture will completely break all performance benchmarks thus far, including those from ATi's rather impressive and recently released HD5000 series. Even more so than usual with the natural progression of graphics cards. According to this, posted 3 days ago, http://www.vistax64.com/graphic-cards/265211-gt300-nda-has-been-partially-lifted.html , an Nvidia insider has suggested that full disclosure may be released even today. Until then however, take a look at the details given thus far through the partial NDA lift:
- March 2nd release Date
- Crysis (ambiguous whether its Warhead or not) gets
73fps
at 1920x1200, 4x SSAA, 16AF- 148fps in Dirt 2 (I'm assuming max settings)
- Will feature 32x AA
- New SLI rendering method
- GF100 (single gpu) to outperform GTX 295 (dual gpu) by 40%, for less money
- GF100 will outperform HD 5970 (dual GPU) and cost less as well
- GF104 (supposedly the dual GPU card) will be twice as powerful (ambiguous as to twice as powerful as GF100 or GTX 295 or HD 5970)
- GF104's max load temp is 55 degress C (which is insanely cool for a dual gpu card)
And in other news pertaining to Nvidia, Nintendo has ordered several million of their powerful new Tegra2 units to be implemented in their next handheld (DS2 imminent?)
All credit goes to original poster and source of course.
Edit: Fermi GF100 demo while you wait:
Edit2: This was posted on the Rage3D forums by a member with over 9000 posts, I'd call it fairly reliable:
(Translated to English using Google Translate, it's mostly readable)
High-end models will deploy the full array of 16 Cluster A total of 512 CUDA Core computing unit, to support 384-bit GDDR5 memory body structure, body has a memory capacity of 1.5GB. Although the Fermi core has adopted 40nm manufacturing process, provided that such cards power up to 250W to 300W, and called for PCI-E 6-pin + PCI-E 8-pin power supply. A second level model will take away the two Cluster group memory array and a body controller, which fell to 448 CUDA Core and 320-bit GDDR5, memory body with a total capacity of 1.28GB, power consumption is reduced to 225W, and only need two PCI-E 6-pin power supply.
In addition to these two single-core products, NVIDIA also has plans to launch limited edition GF 100 GX2 dual-core models, a unified by NVIDIA to get the manufacturers produce. Fermi built two core products, so that the total number of CUDA Core Up to 1024, and has amazing body 3GB memory capacity, built-in power body will amount to more than 6 billion, becoming the industry's most power within the body of the history, the most robust performance The display card products.
Easily beyond the HD 5870
GF 100 actual performance, highly concerned about the industry and users. Sources indicated that single-core version, with 448 CUDA Core of the GF 100 graphics card, 3D performance will easily exceed that same level opponents Ati Radeon HD 5870, in the mainstream games, such as: Crysis Warhead, Far Cry 2, HAWX, and Fallout 3, GF 100's performance of HD 5870, respectively 1.6 times, 1.2 times, 1.55 times and 1.2 times.
Edit3: Here are some demo videos; they were originally stored on a private account on Vimeo but somebody has since copied them publicly onto youtube. I'm 99% sure that these are real. Enjoy.
These appear to be the GTX 360 (GF100=GTX360) since that would be lowest end model based on the previous generation and the name coding. Not bad I think.
Edit4: Apparently NDA will be lifted TONIGHT guys.
Nvidia will take the wraps off their fancy new DirectX 11 graphics card tomorrow night. Ahead of the embargo's expiry a number of videos have leaked out, showing real-time ray tracing, tessellation, and Far Cry 2 running at significantly faster framerates when compared to the GeForce GTX 360.
http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/52473/Nvidia-GeForce-300-Videos-Leak-Ahead-Of-Tomorrows-Big-Reveal
Settings and framerates for the FC2 benchmark, thanks to a poster on the ve3D page.
ranch small, ultra, 1920x1200, 4xAA
gtx285
avg/max/min
50/72/38
gf100 ( = GTX 360)
avg/max/min
84/126/65 +68%/+75%/+71%
5870
avg 70fps
Edit5: Looks like someone posted a small preview.
http://www.bjorn3d.com/forum/showpost.php?p=215717&postcount=8
Design Article releases tomorrow 7PM CST with complete Whitepaper info.
New Features, new cache, new Memory setup, and yes it's about 100% performance increase over GTX-2xx so figure single GTX-285 vs 5870 then double the GTX-285 performance.
Then it handles triangles different, triangles on any given frame can number in the hundreds of thousands so that's very important.
It will fold a lot better.
Increased efficiency in several areas.
It's a revolutionary new design oriented toward tessellation (those pesky triangles) and geometric programming. Problem being every wire frame is made up of triangles, tessellation takes those triangle and breaks them down into many smaller triangles. This core is uniquely designed to handle that so geometric and shader heavy games you will see more than the 100% raw power increase.
520USD might handle it. At 2x GTX-285 performance that puts it above GTX-295 performance and it's DX11 ready and designed for that specifically. Current ATI offerings are really good but basically a double the hardware on the same core design to provide more raw power. GF100 is a core design to take advantage of what the industry needs today and for some time in the future.
Read the article tomorro cause that's about all I can say tonight.
Edit6: I don't know why it keeps posting what I'm saying in italics, some forum bug.
Edit 7: Extremely amusing video incoming, "birth of GT300"
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