Nvidia FAKES GT300!!!!!!!

[X-Gamer]

Wow, so I guess the rumours of crappy yields are true!

LINK (http://www.semiaccurate.com/2009/10/01/nvidia-fakes-fermi-boards-gtc/)


EDIT:
So after the news of this got out, Nvidia used their Marketing Department, I mean Fuad, I mean Fudzilla :



Fermi Tesla board is a mock-up
Written by Fuad Abazovic
Friday, 02 October 2009 18:12

Nvidia confirms

Fermi that was running PhysX at Jensen's GTC keynote was real and the one that we all took pictures of was a mock-up. The real engineering sample card is full of wires, looks like an octopus of modules and wires and top man of Nvidia didn't want to give that thing to Jensen. This was confirmed today by top Nvidia VP president class chap but the same person did confirmed that the card is real and that it does exist.

Charlie was surely right about this one here. The card that Jensen showed and we all pictured is not a working sample. Some key people at Nvidia have promised to show us the picture of the real one. Stay tuned.


LINK (http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/15798/1/)

[goleastro]

O.O



Reliable?



Edit: oh never mind i see your edit.

[Arrancar4]

Dude judging by your treads title you might just have started another ati vs nvidia war. The ati fan boys (myself included cuz im cheap) are gonna have a field day with this.

[Wesley]

Dude judging by your treads title you might just have started another ati vs nvidia war. The ati fan boys (myself included cuz im cheap) are gonna have a field day with this.

Why? Its not exactly surprising. Nvidia are still a ways away from producing a pre-production model, and the engineering sample is all they had. Since they haven't gotten everything worked out yet, they used something that was much cleaner and pleasing to the public eye to garner more interest in it. Hell, who can compete with the Batmobile-esque styling of the HD5000 series?

[Sanguinus08]

OH Nvidia... that was a burn

[Garson007]

Slightly off-topic, but something that has been grating me recently is how fudzilla is nVidia's PR department, jabs in AMD's stomach included. I've found it to be a much better website than INQ, but recently there is just too much nVidia favouritism on that website.

[X-Gamer]

I have to agree with Garson007, I regularly checked The Inquirer because they always had some new cutting edge info. But after Charlie and Sylvie (and supposedly a few others) left, the site degraded.

I then found Fudzilla, which is brilliant for the latest info ,but have also noticed the Nvidia-nism of Fuad. He tries to hide it, but then he goes and says something stupid again.

[Chevron]

I've reading fudzilla for the last 2 years and haven't noticed bias.

[Garson007]

I've reading fudzilla for the last 2 years and haven't noticed bias.
This is only something I've noticed within the last month. It seems that any news piece, in the last month, relating to either has a bad case of fanboi-itis in nVidia's favour.

[X-Gamer]

So if you want DirectX 10, 11, Anti-aliasing, Shader model 4 or 5 effects, hardware tessellation, PhysX effects, the work of at least 50 engineers at Nvidia makes things look better. You should not criticized them and we should actually thank them for it, and if Nvidia would not do this, the PC games could become an endangered species.


Full article (http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/15794/1/) about how Nvidia's TWIMTBP has kept PC gaming alive.

This is obviously in response to Batman Arkham Asylum having Anti-Aliasing only available to Nvidia GPU's. First they said that it was a hardware limitation of ATi GPU's then someone hacked the VendorID to show Nvidia, and Voila! The Option to enable AA returns.

Then it was said that because of the limitations of the UnrealEngine, AA wouldn't work.
Nvidia then found a way to implement it and hence why you only have AA on Nvidia G80 and higher.

[RaptoR]

Forgive me if I'm being fanboyish but who cares if they showed a fake housing for the GPU? The GPU is still real and will probably be launched next month.

[Wesley]

Forgive me if I'm being fanboyish but who cares if they showed a fake housing for the GPU? The GPU is still real and will probably be launched next month.

Only next month if Nvidia works day and night to get everything sorted. They've only just released the GT210 and GT220 cards on the 40nm process, and those are stupidly difficult to locate on the internet - so is this an indication of how prepared they are for the release of Fermi?