Such a conclusion suggests itself from the news that the company gave the name of the Fermi, which has not yet been released to the GT300 chip. Given that citizen Enrico Fermi was an outstanding physicist, a Nobel Prize winner in physics, and also a developer of the world's first nuclear reactor, the name is ambitious.
Well, a strong marketing support for nVidia and the chip will come in handy. Despite the fact that all those who are not too lazy
have already written that the new chip is faster than the flagship competitor HD 5870, it is still about entering the market of DirectX11 video cards, while AMD is solely occupied. Restoring the status quo, after AMD literally bypassed nVidia "on the turn" in the race for DirectX 11 and 40-nm tehprotsess - an important goal.
The new accelerator from nVidia, which can be expected to appear on the shelves before the end of this year, will support DirectX 11 and OpenGL 3.1; it will use GDDR5 memory, and the core and memory frequencies will be roughly similar to those in the
Radeon HD 5870 .
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3dnews ,
electronista