Fermi Previewed and Benchmarked (in Far Cry 2)
Fermi Previewed and Benchmarked (in Far Cry 2)
Posted 01/18/2010 at 6:40am
| by Paul Lilly
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Now that Nvidia has lifted the NDA on some of the official details surrounding its upcoming Fermi-based GF100 GPU, the Web is chock full of updated info, teaser videos, and even a Far Cry 2 benchmark.
To sum it up, GF100 has 512 CUDA processors, 16 geometry units, 4 raster units, 64 texture units, and 48 ROP engines. Like ATI's latest cards, GF100 comes with full DirectX 11 support. But unique to Fermi is a pretty big 768KB L2 cache buffer shared between four Graphics Processing Clusters.
In one video, Fermi is shown running Far Cry 2 at 1920x1200 with 4XAA and Ultra High settings. Framerates never dropped below 65, compared to under 40 in another system equipped with what appears to be an ATI HD 5870 videocard.
Image Credit: Nvidia
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Devo85x
January 18, 2010 at 2:21pm
Since I have three monitors, I would need Nvidia to come out with something like ATI's Eyefinity (For multimonitor gaming without having to use software such as SofTH, which I have had problems with).
Modred189
January 18, 2010 at 7:59am
These cards are really nice and all(GF100 and 5970 etc), but for someone with a quad core CPU, a GTX260, and a1680X1050 screen, I see little or no reason to upgrade from my GTX260. I haveno bottlenecks, I can max out the settings on %95 of new games at high FPS, andmy current card is quiet and runs relatively cool.
Nvidia and ATi are putting out great products, and the new generation seems tocontinue that trend, but unlike previous generations, I do not see a lot ofpress/advertising/spin about upgrading, and the benefits I would get.In my mind, Eyefinity, the Nvidia analogue and their 3D tech are all nichegimmicks. The price of entry is too high, and it's too complicated for mostusers (those folks who make up the majority of the red and green customerbase). As such, they do not represent much of a value proposition making melean towards upgrading.
I guess my question is... in three months, or 6 when supply gets higher, whyshould I upgrade?
DBsantos77
January 18, 2010 at 9:45am
If you look at it from a CAD point of view, the faster the card, the faster the renders.
-Santos
Mechageo
January 18, 2010 at 8:25am
Some companies make all of their money by being the best and most expensive of a particular type of item.
No use 'competing with Wal-Mart' as it were.
Modred189
January 18, 2010 at 9:46am
True, but that's how AMD/ATi killed Nvidia with the last generation desktop cards. The HD4xxx series cards were madly popular and far outsold the GTX and GTS series from Nvidia, not to mention the GTS cards were not even new tech, just shrunk 9800 and 9600 series.
The sub-$200 market is where both red and green make all of their money, and to put it simply, tech that comes out in March may not give me any benefit over technology from June 2008;
http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/16/nvidia-unearths-new-gtx-280-and-gtx-260-graphics-cards/
I'm not saying that they will be bad, but when the GTX series and HD4xxx series came out, there were HUGE reasons to upgrade. Performance, AA/AF abilities, better multi-card support, etc.
I just don't see them pushing upgrade options this time around, which makes me wonder just how successful the new generation will be compared to previous ones.
Big_MARK
January 18, 2010 at 8:20am
The only real gain wil be DX11 support. I just built an all AMD rig much like the MaximimPC sub $800. build in this months magazine, bought Dirt2 and was amazed at the difference, and ease at which my rig ran said game.
Other than DX11 I agree with you, your GTX260s will pretty much do the job.
americaeh
January 18, 2010 at 7:57am
OK we get it its a good card but, how much are they going to cost and is it going to be running hot at stock clocks and when will we actually see a real one?
sudo apt-get install windows 7
K0BALT
January 18, 2010 at 7:36am
Bout freakin' time.
~ i7 920 @ 4.4GHz, (2) GTX295's Quad-SLI, EVGA X58 3X SLI, 6GB DDR3 OCZ Gold ~
Neufeldt2002
January 18, 2010 at 7:23am
Fudzilla is reporting that the other card is a GTX 285. Also, how the heck can one even speculate on what the cards are? I watched the videos, there is no shot at all of either card. only thick accents. As far as I know, the whole thing could be a 5870 vs gtx 260. Not saying it is, I have no idea what the actual numbers are for said cards. Just saying there is no proof the cards are what is being reported is true.
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Caboose
January 18, 2010 at 12:19pm
I agree, until we get some real proof that it is a Fermi card, no point in getting all worked up!
-= I don't want to be dead, I want to be alive! Or... a cowboy! =-
Quakindude
January 18, 2010 at 6:58am
If these cards are as good as they make them out to be, I just hope they come out before my EVGA step up window closes.
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JohnP
January 18, 2010 at 5:29pm
Will be REALLY, REALLY high, what with a chip that is 40nm and 60% bigger than ATI's (and we all know that ATI had huge number of 5870 cards just waiting to be shipped.. and waitng.. and waiting...)
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