More than three months have passed since the first detailed information on the new graphics circuit architecture Fermi was released by NVIDIA. Back then it focused on the business sector and how good Fermi was at crunching numbers, 3D rendering and your average supercomputer tasks. While we sit here dreaming and waiting for NVIDIA’s new graphics architecture the company has made another presentation, all theory, but this time with focus on the gaming.
Unlike the presentation back in September 2009 NVIDIA had more than just theoretic benchmarks to show, we actually got to see bits of what GeForce Fermi 100, the top model of NVIDIA’s GeForce program, is capable of and as we have already revealed they did show some short benchmark.
GeForce Fermi 100
NVIDIA focused more on sharing more on its new graphics circuit architecture and we now have more details on what makes GeForce Fermi so powerful. Thorough reviews of the architecture can be found at Anandtech and PC Perspective where we clearly see that NVIDIA has rethought several things and is determined to achieve better image quality through more efficient antialiasing (32x CSAA), loads of triangles (PolyMorph engine for Tessellation) and enormous capacity for pushing out pixels.
NVIDIA also talked about Vision Surround and 3D Vision Surround where three 1080p monitors can be used to create an Eyefinity-like gaming experience. With 120Hz monitors there is also support for 3D, but you need at least two GF100 cards for NVIDIA’s Surround technology since the card only has two video outputs.
NVIDIA isn’t going for just pure performance, although it claims that GF100 will be considerably faster than the current GeForce GTX 285, but also AMD’s ATI Radeon HD 5870. Since NVIDIA was unwilling to talk clock frequencies and prices it’s hard to say what we can expect at launch in March and until then AMD will have had time to prepare a counter attack.
NVIDIA’s GeForce Fermi has great potential and whether it was right or not to build a whole new and advanced graphics architecture only the future can tell.
Articles on GeForce Fermi 100:
– AnandTech
– Hot Hardware
– TechPowerUp
– PC Perspective
– HardOCP
– Tom’s Hardware
– Hardware Canucks
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