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แม้ ATI จะชิงขายการ์ด DirectX11 ไปก่อนแล้วกว่า 2,000,000 ตัว โดยที่ Nvidia ยังไม่เริ่มจำหน่ายสักตัวเดียว
แต่ Nvidia ก็ยังคงตั้งความหวังเอาไว้สูงกับ Fermi ซึ่งเป็นการ์ดจอรุ่นถัดไปของตนว่าจะแรงกว่า ATI Radeon HD 5870
พร้อมกับนำเสนอฟังก์ชั่นการทำงานใหม่ๆ ที่มากกว่าทาง ATI ที่น่าจะไม่ทำให้แฟนๆ ต้องผิดหวังกับการรอคอย
ล่าสุด Nvidia ก็ได้เริ่มเดินเครื่องผลิตเจ้า Fermi นี้แบบจริงจังแล้ว คาดว่าอีกไม่นานก็คงจะได้วางจำหน่ายกันเสียที
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แม้ ATI จะชิงขายการ์ด DirectX11 ไปก่อนแล้วกว่า 2,000,000 ตัว โดยที่ Nvidia ยังไม่เริ่มจำหน่ายสักตัวเดียว
แต่ Nvidia ก็ยังคงตั้งความหวังเอาไว้สูงกับ Fermi ซึ่งเป็นการ์ดจอรุ่นถัดไปของตนว่าจะแรงกว่า ATI Radeon HD 5870
พร้อมกับนำเสนอฟังก์ชั่นการทำงานใหม่ๆ ที่มากกว่าทาง ATI ที่น่าจะไม่ทำให้แฟนๆ ต้องผิดหวังกับการรอคอย
ล่าสุด Nvidia ก็ได้เริ่มเดินเครื่องผลิตเจ้า Fermi นี้แบบจริงจังแล้ว คาดว่าอีกไม่นานก็คงจะได้วางจำหน่ายกันเสียที
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Nvidia’s Next-Generation Graphics Processor in Volume Production – Company.
Nvidia GF100 Graphics Chip Finally In Mass Production
[01/08/2010 07:34 PM]
by Anton Shilov
At the Consumer Electronics Show Nvidia Corp.’s chief executive officer said that the highly-anticipated next-generation graphics processor known as GF100 (aka NV60, G300, GT300) had finally entered mass production. The company remained tight-lipped regarding the release time frame of the future product, which was first shown over three months ago.
“Everyone is dying to know when they can buy GF100. Happy to tell you that it is in volume production, ramping very hard and you can get a sneak peak of it here at CES,” said Jen-Hsun Huang, chief executive officer of Nvidia, at a press conference during CES 2010.
Earlier Nvidia said that it would ramp up production of its next-generation graphics processing units (GPUs) based on Fermi architecture starting in late January, hence, the comment by Mr. Huang may mean that the company is a couple of weeks ahead of the rather pessimistic scenario that the CEO presented back in November ’09. Still, the GF100 chip in general will be at least several months late to market compared to the company’s original plan.
Quite ironically, the announcement of the initiation of GeForce “Fermi” mass production coincides with the claim of arch-rival ATI, graphics business unit of Advanced Micro Devices, regarding shipment of second millionth DirectX 11 graphics processing unit. Nvidia hopes that its next-gen graphics chip will outperform ATI’s Radeon HD 5870 in video games and will also offer better functionality, which will make the delay justified.
The leading supplier of graphics processors has reportedly notified its partners that it would officially launch the GeForce “GF100” graphics chip in March ’10, according to a previous media report. In addition, Nvidia plans to release a rather mysterious code-named GF104 chip in Q2 2010. The GF104 graphics processing unit will target the high-end market, according to the media report.
The flagship Fermi graphics processor will feature 512 stream processing engines (which are organized as 16 streaming multi-processors with 32 cores in each) that support a type of multi-threading technology to maximize utilization of cores. Each stream processor has a fully pipelined integer arithmetic logic unit (ALU) and floating point unit (FPU). The top-of-the-range chip contains 3 billion of transistors, features 384-bit memory GDDR5 memory controller with ECC and features rather unprecedented 768KB unified level-two cache as well as rather complex cache hierarchy in general. Naturally, the Fermi family is compatible with DirectX 11, OpenGL 3.x and OpenCL 1.x application programming interfaces (APIs). The new chips will be made using 40nm process technology at TSMC.
Nvidia GF100 Graphics Chip Finally In Mass Production
[01/08/2010 07:34 PM]
by Anton Shilov
At the Consumer Electronics Show Nvidia Corp.’s chief executive officer said that the highly-anticipated next-generation graphics processor known as GF100 (aka NV60, G300, GT300) had finally entered mass production. The company remained tight-lipped regarding the release time frame of the future product, which was first shown over three months ago.
“Everyone is dying to know when they can buy GF100. Happy to tell you that it is in volume production, ramping very hard and you can get a sneak peak of it here at CES,” said Jen-Hsun Huang, chief executive officer of Nvidia, at a press conference during CES 2010.
Earlier Nvidia said that it would ramp up production of its next-generation graphics processing units (GPUs) based on Fermi architecture starting in late January, hence, the comment by Mr. Huang may mean that the company is a couple of weeks ahead of the rather pessimistic scenario that the CEO presented back in November ’09. Still, the GF100 chip in general will be at least several months late to market compared to the company’s original plan.
Quite ironically, the announcement of the initiation of GeForce “Fermi” mass production coincides with the claim of arch-rival ATI, graphics business unit of Advanced Micro Devices, regarding shipment of second millionth DirectX 11 graphics processing unit. Nvidia hopes that its next-gen graphics chip will outperform ATI’s Radeon HD 5870 in video games and will also offer better functionality, which will make the delay justified.
The leading supplier of graphics processors has reportedly notified its partners that it would officially launch the GeForce “GF100” graphics chip in March ’10, according to a previous media report. In addition, Nvidia plans to release a rather mysterious code-named GF104 chip in Q2 2010. The GF104 graphics processing unit will target the high-end market, according to the media report.
The flagship Fermi graphics processor will feature 512 stream processing engines (which are organized as 16 streaming multi-processors with 32 cores in each) that support a type of multi-threading technology to maximize utilization of cores. Each stream processor has a fully pipelined integer arithmetic logic unit (ALU) and floating point unit (FPU). The top-of-the-range chip contains 3 billion of transistors, features 384-bit memory GDDR5 memory controller with ECC and features rather unprecedented 768KB unified level-two cache as well as rather complex cache hierarchy in general. Naturally, the Fermi family is compatible with DirectX 11, OpenGL 3.x and OpenCL 1.x application programming interfaces (APIs). The new chips will be made using 40nm process technology at TSMC.
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