Information on NVIDIA’s next generation graphics circuit continues to leak and the latest is said to be a block diagram over the latest GPU architecture. The diagram was published at Beyond3D forum but have been censured, leaving only a couple of things visible, the name GF100 for instance. This could confirm the code name Fermi as this would be short for GeForce Fermi, as GeForce Tesla was abbreviated GT200.
What is perhaps even more interesting is that users were able to extract more information from the blurred out picture, for example that it will consist of more than 3 billion transistors and be made using TSMC’s 40nm technology.
The latter was confirmed long ago and would GF100 house more than 3 billion transistors it will be a chip to count on. Both for performance and raising the electricity bill.
The blurry block diagram also looks to use 384-bit memory bus, which together with rapid GDDR5 memory would result in a massive memory bandwidth.
Exactly how well this matches the actual chips is hard to say, but it certainly feels like we are getting closer better and more in-depth information with each day that passes.
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