Unfortunately named BS News seems to have learned that eVGA and nVidia will introduce a new card on Halloween. Let's all hold our breath together... (No, it's not Fermi.)
Not a bad idea actually, I'd still wait to see what Fermi can do before buying anything at the higher end of the scale
Not being funny, but if the claims about the card are true, couldn't you just buy a GTX275 and a GTS250? I'm not totally clued up on the PhysX front, but I'd assume you wouldn't need a full-speed x16 slot for a PhysX card, so you could x16 on the 275, and x8 (or possibly lower) on the 250. I suppose it opens up GPU-related acceleration a little more for people with only single-PCIE slot motherboards, but it begs the question, why not just get a GTX295 and be done with it? And one more thought while I'm on a roll - isn't this a bit wasteful when only a handful of games use PhysX? You're paying over the odds for what will be, for a lot of games, just a plain GTX275.
Fermi is the codename for the GT300 architecture iirc - the Quadro line comes straight from the mainstream architectures with a couple of slight tweaks.
It's just the name for the architecture, which will be used in both their workstation Quadro/Tesla cards and their gaming GeForce cards. Bah, ninja'd
Cool cheers guys, I was reading an article about it and it was slanted for Cuda performance etc so I was assuming it was the arch behind Quadro only.
Well, they've only been talking it in terms of GPU computing terms rather than gaming, so that does seem to be a big push behind their new architecture.
