The second big announcement comes from nVIDIA and is a preview of their new Fermi architecture. Ryan has put a lot of detail into a two page article covering the technical specifics that we know and some thoughts on what it might mean. With an architectural change of this magnitude it is hard to guess exactly what effect it will have on a running product. Learn about the future of CUDA and nVIDIAs’ cGPU initiative.
“From a gaming angle, which is obviously one of our primary targets at PC Perspective, we don’t yet know how the Fermi architecture will apply. While I am doubtful that NVIDIA will be sharing any information about new products, frequencies, etc during the GPU Tech Conference today, if we find anything out we will be sure to share it. But even if clock rates remain the same as we currently have on the GT200 the architecture should perform damn well – after all we moved from 240 SPs to 512 SPs and have a new GDDR5 memory bus that is 384-bits wide.”Here are some more Graphics Card articles from around the web:
- Nvidia’s ‘Fermi’ GPU architecture revealed @ The Tech Reprot
- AMD’s ATI Radeon HD 5850 @ [H]ard|OCP
- AMD ATI Radeon HD 5850 Performance Review @ HotHardware
- AMD ATI Radeon HD 5850 single-card and multi-GPU evaluation @ HEXUS
- ATI Radeon HD 5850 CrossFire Video Card Review @ Legit Reviews
- Radeon HD 5850 review (CrossfireX) – Oh yeah it’s fast @ Guru of 3D
- AMD’s Radeon HD 5850 arrives @ The Tech Report
- AMD’s Radeon HD 5850: The Other Shoe Drops @ AnandTech
- GIGABYTE Radeon HD 5870 Graphics Card in CrossFire X @ Tweaktown
- AMD’s ATI Eyefinity Technology @ [H]ard|OCP
- HIS Radeon HD 4890 iCooler x4 1GB @ Legion Hardware