Competition between AMD and Nvidia GPUs Should Heat Up by Year's End

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relaxed911

The timing of the 5890's entry will be entirely dependent on how fast Nvidia's GT300 series will be.  If the single-core GT300 turns out to be significantly faster than ATI's current offering, ATI will suffer from not having much more headroom with their new GPUs. 

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Deanjo

 

  • 3.0 billion transistors
  • 40nm TSMC
  • 384-bit memory interface
  • 512 shader cores [renamed into CUDA Cores]
  • 32 CUDA cores per Shader Cluster
  • 1MB L1 cache memory [divided into 16KB Cache - Shared Memory]
  • 768KB L2 unified cache memory
  • Up to 6GB GDDR5 memory
  • Half Speed IEEE 754 Double Precision

http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2009/9/30/nvidia-gt300s-fermi-architecture-unveiled-512-cores2c-up-to-6gb-gddr5.aspx

 

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WFUJay

Knowing Nvidia, this card will only run you about $5,000.

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Comic Book Guy

But, will nVIDIA have changed the GT300 to use MIMD which has been reported for about a year give or take?

Comic Book Guy

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Deanjo

ATI debuts first with a faster card and then the Nvidia brings out their new stuff thumping ATI down into having to slap 2 GPU's on a card to keep close.

 

Lather, rinse and repeat as many times necessary.

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bingojubes

isn't it a bit unusual that they didn't number these new cards of theirs in the early 5 thousands? maybe we will end up seeing it's earlier predecessors soon, instead of another gain. i just thought that since it's a 58xx, then it would not be such a large jump across a 5-series.

i think ATI will still come out on top in this case, because the GTX 280 brought a knife to the Sapphire 4870 x2 gun & sword fight. but with new products looming for the holiday's, i can't wait to see what the holidays have in store!

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