The real Fermi

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When Nvidia Corp. unveiled its Fermi architecture first in September, 2009, the firm said that the top-of-the-range offering will include 512 stream processors. However, it released no actual products on the fully-fledged chip. On Wednesday a web-site published a picture of a graphics card that it claims to be powered by the code-named GF100 graphics chip with all 512 stream processors activated.

The graphics solution resembles the original GeForce GTX 480, which comes with 480 stream processors activated, but has tangibly improved power supply circuitry and consumes much more power as it is equipped with two PCIe 8-pin power connectors (together with PCIe x16 slot they can provide up to 375W of power). Based on the image published by Expreview web-site, the board also looks slightly longer than the predecessor, possibly because of higher power consumption and greater heat dissipation.

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Web-Site Displays GeForce GTX 480 Graphics Card with 512 Stream Processors - X-bit labs

[P0w3rM0v3]

nice find bay. i can't decide if this is good or bad news though. interesting that this will need even more power lol. Wonder wat the temps on this thing is gonna be. nvidia did promise that the gtx480 was gonna have 512 cores, maybe they should replace the cards of the gtx480 owners with this as well. as the article said, as the 6000 architecture is about to come out, if its just gonna be a minute increase in performance, i think nvidia should just start working on a new architecture so they can try and jump ati on the next round