NVIDIA 对 50 瓦 Fermi 架构衍生品消息不置评论

Edison

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nVidia responds directly to KitGuru’s revelations

May 20th, 2010 at 10:06 pm - Authorfaith

Over the past week or so, we have heard a lot of rumours about nVidia’s products. As wizened KitGurus, you can trust us when we say that our sources are both plentiful and well placed. We report this kind of story when we have no reason to doubt a story. That said, we do stand to be corrected when a company goes as far as to issue a definitive denial.

After carefully reading through all of our posts [we like to think we're every PR director's favourite bookmark - Ed], nVidia’s headquarters has made direct contact with KitGuru about our recent revelations. Intrigued?  We were.

nVidia has chosen not to contradict our stories relating to the launch of the 50 watt Fermi, GT420 or GTS455 etc, which was nice. Also, they have also been careful to avoid saying that KitGuru’s revelations about the pricing or physical specifications of the GTX465 are wrong.

However, they were adamant that at no time has production of the GTX470 card been affected. This contradicts our story that GTX470 chips have been moved to the creation of the GTX490 (and high end notebook systems from Clevo and others).

Also, they have stated categorically that all of nVidia’s new cards fully support CUDA and that there are no plans to release an nVidia card in this generation that does not have CUDA support. The nVidia spokesperson we talked to was prepared to go on record as saying “These rumors are categorically incorrect.” Fair enough.

We have to say that, given our source on the story, it’s possible that some misunderstanding might have occurred between the various groups involved in bringing an nVidia card to market. For example, if a pre-release driver for GTX465 was delivered to a ‘tester’ and CUDA support had not been included in the code at that stage, then that could have caused a misunderstanding.

KitGuru says: Lucky we don’t live in a world of instant information transfer, greased-lightning rumour mills and news editors with hairline triggers. Seriously though, Santa Clara was under no obligation whatsoever to contact KitGuru about these stories and to put nVidia’s position forward. We really appreciate them taking the time to do so.




事件缘由：
http://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/faith/50w-fermi/

ou can never overestimate how much people want to know about nVidia and its products. Yesterday, we discussed nVidia’s high-end products, the GTX 465 and GTX470.  We have been inundated with requests about ‘Fermi for the masses’. We’re not going to share all of our intel, but here’s one  snippet that you might find interesting.

Everyone is looking for the latest and greatest. With graphics, that normally happens when Microsoft issues a new version of Windows and updates the DirectX model at the same time.

Each generation of DirectX is ‘richer’ than the last and that means ever more sophisticated hardware is needed to run it. Ever wondered why the graphics giants tend to launch their high-end parts first? Simple, there is more space to work with.

Remember, each new GPU is amazingly complex and represents a huge step forward over the previous generation. That means that the final cards have never been seen before. No one really knows what the ‘complete package’ characteristics will be until a card comes of an assembly line and is inserted into a real PC.

Over time, the experts understand more and more about the chip and are able to make it simpler and smaller. Right now, that is happening with the GTX465, ready to show at Computex.

Projecting that timeline forward, KitGuru predicts that nVidia will have a GT420 part ready to go late in Q3. While it might only have DDR3 memory and a smaller (128 bit?) bus, it will do something that many thought was impossible. Deliver Fermi to the masses using just 50 watts.

As always with these forward looking statements, we stand to be corrected, but this seems entirely plausible.

The only thing we’re not sure about is will the 50w Fermi be more interesting to Jonah Alben or Philip Carmack?

(KitGuru must be getting old, these senior VPs look younger and younger!)
Will this launch be completely overshadowed by Northern Islands?  Who knows. The proof will be in the benchmarking.

KitGuru says: Roll on 50w Fermi, let’s make DX11 available to the widest audience possible.

椰树

不置评论那就是有了..NVIDIA老搞这一套

刘硕鼠

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50w这个档次的显卡肯定要有吧，还是说难道低端还是延续上一代架构？
我是来围观的 发表于 2010-5-24 11:44

    G92内牛满面,又有新衣服穿了

苯苯小哥

咋跟啥也没说似的 新产品会有的 。。。。。。

66666

G92内牛满面,又有新衣服穿了
刘硕鼠 发表于 2010-5-24 12:19

   
G92要出40nm版本早就出了

kaven

GT440