Fermi gets closer every day, but the pricing will likely be well beyond mortal men. Makes sense, since the initial cards will most-likely be Tesla and GPGPU-centric, but NVidia CFO David White claims that lower-cost Fermi products will follow in mid 2010.
“Fermi will show up as the GeForce and Tesla first and it will definitely show up first in the highest-performance configuration. Sometime in the mid-part of the year we will see a lower-cost version of that come out both for Quadro and Tesla,” said David White, chief financial officer of NVIDIA, at Goldman Sachs Technology Conference.
How low will the price have to be before you’ll run out and buy a GeForce Fermi for your PC?
via NVIDIA CFO: Lower-Cost Fermi Products Due in the Middle of the Year – Expreview.com.
For most consumers Fermi does not only mean just to cough up $500-680 it also means a new power supply, maybe even a new computer.
How low does the price have to be? depends on many factors:
1) benchmark performance
2) how much performance over previous gen gpu and whether dx11 is desirable to them. A
All these factors are time dependent as always, because we shall see the answers to them in 1 month from now maybe later.
Just an FYI, I erased the other 2 comments you posted here as they were duplicates/blank.