Nvidia Gives Fermi GF100 Official GPU Names
Up until now, we've been referring to the next-generation Nvidia GPU technology as Fermi or GF100. Today, Nvidia revealed the official marketing name for the new architecture.
Nvidia will be skipping the entire 300-range of model numbers as the Fermi-based cards will come in at the 400-level. As revealed in an Nvidia twitter update:
"Fun Fact of the Week: GeForce GTX 480 and GeForce GTX 470 will be the names of the first two GPUs shipped based on our new GF100 chip!"
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^ fixed the link for you Tom's.
I can't wait for Fermi to finally be released, but goodness gracious nVidia. Enough with the retarded renaming crap already.
Lol, seriously... Nvidia missed out on this one baddly...
ATI will probably have a second, revised GPU by then.
I'm sure your expectations will be met.
Top of the range Incinerator!
Medium range Inferno!
Entry level The Toaster!
The rumour is that 400 series is for dx11 cards and 300 series for dx10.1 cards... who knows. We can just hope that we don't see 8800 renamed to GTX450 or something similar... GTX350 is guite possible though...
You bet, and this naming scheme makes things even more complicated to consumers.
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The price is scary unless you live in California where everything is way overpriced and people make a lot more. For the rest of us... We will see what the prices come in at. I've been buy nVidia since back in the day when everyone was still buying 3dfx cards. My friend had a Voodoo 2 and I had a 16MB TNT. But somewhere along the line nVidia began charging WAAAAY too much. I went from my nVidia 6600GT to an ATi X1950XT. Now I am still thinking ATi offers more average fps for the money.
i'll jump on board. my wife wouldn't allow it, but the pic is pretty fun.
nVidia decided to skip the 3 digit prices and go right into the thousands.
I don't think ATI will come up with a new chip within a year, not that I would mind. Their 5xxx series is a nice performer, but they should have gave it more muscle.
They might as well do it... Lower the power requirements and increase the clock by a bit if they can. I'll be happy with just a lower power req. and less heat....