The folks at bsn have found a picture showing the desktop version of a Fermi based graphics card / NV100, in action on the company’s Facebook page. The card is running Unigine’s DirectX 11 benchmark -- of course the frame rate counter was carefully cut away. We suspect this was a photo taken at the Super Computer convention - or just something from NVIDIA to spice things up a little. The coincidence of this showing up on an NVIDIA Facebook page at ATI Radeon HD 5970 launch day .. well that's can't be a coincidence now can it ?
We expect the card as you see it to be names the GeForce 380 by the way, the card is equipped with an 8-pin and a 6-pin power, that board design allows for 300W power consumption.
"Clock expectations and performance are running quite high, and if we compare the thermal characteristics of Tesla 20-Generation, you can see that "GeForce 380" has around 107W for overclocking purposes.
If you are wondering why are we calling the Fermi GPU "NV100", the reason is actually quite simple. The name for the architecture is Fermi, while the previous architecture [GT200] was called Tesla. But the actual ASIC has several different names, depending on product where it is going to end up. As a generation of silicon, Fermi ASIC carries the name NV100 is the name for GPU itself, GF100 is name for the GeForce part, and we saw GT300GL for Quadro parts and GT300 for Tesla on several Tesla-based documents back in early 2009 - via BSN.
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