SLI NVIDIA GF100s pictured

Robert Hallock 8 Dec, 2009 at 3:57pm ET Article published in Tech

NVIDIA Director of Technical Marketing Tom Petersen

Last month we caught sight of an NVIDIA GF100 giving the DirectX 11 Unigine Heaven benchmark a go, and now we have two pictures of a GF100 SLI configuration.

Here’s what we know thus far:

The ATX spec specifies a motherboard width of 9.6?, therefore GF100 adapters appear to be 10 inches.
The cards use 1×8-pin and 1×6-pin PCIe power connectors. If the GF100 uses a similar consumption profile to the 294W Tesla C2000 series, then next-gen GeForces will have about 100W to spare for overclocking.
Note also that 294W is identical to the dual-GPU Radeon HD 5970, whereas Tesla C2000 and GF100 use one GPU. Big die is big.

For those of you who are confused by NVIDIA’s codename soup, allow us to clear the air: Fermi is the name of the architecture, NV100 is the name of the physical chip, GF100 is the name of the GeForce implementation, and GT300 is the name of the Tesla implementation.

Comments

8 Dec 2009 ~ 4:10pm Cliff_Forster Hey, the marketing guy is giving a big thumbs up, that means it must be awesome!!

Now, if gamers can get some hands on time at CES, that will be the confirmation.
8 Dec 2009 ~ 4:10pm Thrax Two unicorns > one unicorn.
8 Dec 2009 ~ 4:25pm UPSLynx Look how smug he is with that setup.
8 Dec 2009 ~ 4:31pm photodude Wow, that's some serious space taken up, for some powerhouse cards. Great expectations for the new Nvidia Fermi based cards.

FYI: GT300GL is name for the QuadroFX cards with the Fermi chips.

There are some rumors running around that the NV100/GT300 is less powerful then the GTX285
8 Dec 2009 ~ 4:33pm Sledgehammer70 I want these cards
8 Dec 2009 ~ 4:35pm photodude

UPSLynx wrote:

Look how smug he is with that setup.

I can see the future....... UPSLynx looking smug with a system like the one pictured, after baking his GF100's
8 Dec 2009 ~ 5:43pm Aaronage You know what this reminds me of? ATI R600 (2900XT). The whole mess is playing out just like it did for ATI back with the launch of DX10.

The architecture promises a lot, but will it deliver? 2900XT looked amazing on paper, the 512bit bus, GDDR4, 320sp etc.

If what is outlined in the article turns out to be true, it's going to be a power hungry, hot chip with little room for overclockers to have fun - just like the 2900XT

etc. etc.

Glad i bought a 5850
8 Dec 2009 ~ 5:58pm Cliff_Forster Just to prove I can be reasonable,

The real issue with the 2900XT was not so much that it was a horrible debacle as the NVIDIA 8800GT was a significantly better product at the time, and when ATI stepped up to the 3870 to counter it, its AA performance was hideous. The 8800GT / GTX was a good year and a half ahead of the curve.
8 Dec 2009 ~ 10:20pm hellyeah sweet,are there any girls want to buy it
8 Dec 2009 ~ 10:43pm MAGIC

hellyeah wrote:

sweet,are there any girls want to buy it

WUT!
9 Dec 2009 ~ 12:23pm UPSLynx

hellyeah wrote:

sweet,are there any girls want to buy it

I think this is one of my most favorite comments on Icrontic ever. EVER.

Photodude - I shudder at the thought of baking something that new, but if it benefits science....
9 Dec 2009 ~ 12:33pm Thrax
9 Dec 2009 ~ 6:17pm ardichoke hellyeah!