If we look back to the summer of 2009, Nvidia was undoubtedly the great king of the graphics market. It had been a good while as well, AMD/ATI was long a small notch behind. But suddenly on 23 September 2009 everything changed. AMD released the long-awaited 5-series. In a short time, Nvidia was really set aside and AMD knocked out one good card after another. Production problems at 40 nm technology at TSMC did not do things that much better for either party. Anyway, Nvidia lost his reputation, and they have not yet pulled them up again.
During CES in Las Vegas, Nvidia presented their new core, GF100. GF100 is the codename for the processor that will be the Nvidia's answer to the great AMD leap that has been included in DirectX 11 world. GF100 is based on Fermi-architecture, and boasts many exciting features. This graphics processor matches Radeon HD 5870. It is therefore the complete kernel for all the new video cards. A number of degraded versions of this core will also be launched as a more economically friendly video card.
In this article we will look in depth on GF100. We will look at the features it offers and how it can match AMD's equivalent card. Precise specifications of the new video cards are still kept strictly secret, and little is certain right here.
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