The NVidia Fermi is probably the most anticipated graphics card in recent history, for it’s massive computational performance puts it years ahead of the competition. While exact execution figures (aside from our discoveries of the N-Body simulation figures) are still a mystery, NVidia says the figures are looking impressive.
“We expect [Fermi] to be the fastest GPU in every single segment. The performance numbers that we have [obtained] internally just [confirms] that. So, we are happy about this and are just finalizing everything on the driver side,” said Luciano Alibrandi, the head of Nvidia public relations department in EMEAI region, in an interview with DonanimHaber web-site.
Although it seems NVidia still isn’t happy with the card, indicating that they may have to push it back to March 2010 (the tail end of Q1 2010) because of continued 40nm process problems.
Nvidia originally scheduled to launch Fermi in November 2009, but was delayed until CES in January 2010 due to defects, according to market rumors. However, the company recently notified graphics card makers that the official launch will now be in March 2010, the sources noted.
Nvidia plans to launch a 40nm GDDR5 memory-based Fermi-GF100 GPU in March, and will launch a GF104 version in the second quarter to target the high-end market with its GeForce GTX295/285/275/260, the sources pointed out.
via Nvidia Is Happy With Performance of GeForce GF100 “Fermi” Graphics Card – X-bit labs. and DigiTimes: NVidia Delays Fermi to March 2010
