Thread: NVIDIA FERMIN??? $1400, 666 SHADERS, 666-BIT BUS and 4GB GDDR5

have no words for it... Just plain read on... :D

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WHO WOULD’VE BELIEVED that Nvidia was willing create an exclusive card with one of its partners that would only go on sale in a single country. Well, it’s true and we have sourced proof from the exclusive online retailer that will be selling these very rare cards.

The design of the XFX GeForce Fermin as the card will be called is somewhat unusual as it’s using a quad stacked design. This is apparently only intended for serious overclockers who run their graphics cards on the “bench” so to speak, as it won’t fit into a normal ATX chassis. Nvidia and XFX have pulled out all the stops here to create something truly unique for the hardcore overclockers.



The so far unspecified GPU is clocked at what appears to be a fairly slow 666MHz, but this custom chip from Nvidia has no less than 666 stream processors (also known as shaders) which should allow it to beat just about any card on the market when it comes to GPGPU performance. Although with many shaders we’d expect the card to perform extremely well in most games. The GPU has been paired up with 4GB of GDDR5 memory using a 666-bit bus and the memory operates on a 666MHz quad pumped bus which results in the equivalent data rate of 2,664MHz which blows the competition away.

The most amazing thing here is, at least if your budget allows it, that you can run a pair of these cards in SLI. Considering that a single card requires a 1000W power supply, we can but wonder how much power two cards will need. The GPU appears to be running mighty hot, as the card has no less than four fans to help cool it. Swedish online retailer inet is Nvidia’s exclusive partner for the card and they’re offering two accessories for it. The first is a bag of mixed screws, but we were unable to confirm if this will include any wood screws or not. The second accessory is an ESD wrist strap with a spiral cable which is meant to be used at all time that the card is connected up to your system.

Now for the bad news, the cost. You’re look at ponying up no less than 9,995 SEK for one of these puppies, which is about $1,390. If that sounds like a bargain to you, then you better hurry up and put in your order now, as we’ve been told that there’s only a very limited run of these cards. Pre-orders are accepted, but limited to today only. This is a chance to own a truly limited edition Nvidia collector’s item and to have the bragging rights of owning one of the biggest graphics cards ever made.S|A

NVIDIA FERMIN??? $1400, 666 SHADERS, 666-BIT BUS and 4GB GDDR5

I guess 666 is the magic number. It must be the devil's graphics card...

Originally Posted by JustDoIt

NVIDIA FERMIN??? $1400, 666 SHADERS, 666-BIT BUS and 4GB GDDR5

I guess 666 is the magic number. It must be the devil's graphics card...

My guess is that it is someone who was pissed at Nvidia for all their renaming of all old parts... and the endless delays now with the Fermi :)

Originally Posted by tifosi

My guess is that it is someone who was pissed at Nvidia for all their renaming of all old parts... and the endless delays now with the Fermi :)

Most gamers don't know the largest chunk of revenue comes from system integration, not discrete retail card sales. The graphics card market is at an evolutionary dead end. 3D games are at the same juncture that sound cards faced over 10 years ago. We've gotten to the point where visuals are simply good enough. AMD is willing to run as long as possible with graphics cards just because it helps produce better IGP parts for the CPU side.
Nvidia, however, doesn't have the luxury of guaranteed integration onto CPU packages. AMD processor market isn't large enough to sustain two companies and Intel has blocked Nvidia from producing chipsets for current processors outside of Atom. That's why Nvidia hasn't been pushing pure 3D for years. They were famous for pushing new 3D cards every six months, but with the market headed the way it is, doing so simply accelerates the process of making themselves obsolete. As a company, they see their only future lies with massively parallel compute. That's why they've had so much trouble with this generation and why Fermi has so many delays. They are basically trying to learn in 5 years what took AMD and Intel 25 years of practice.

"Considering that a single card requires a 1,000W power" I just loled.

Nvidia is always been high-end extreme prices and excellent cards, AMD now really cant compare to nvidia , specially with this card , but that is one hell of a consumer of power