NVIDIA Announces Next Generation Fermi Graphics Card: GT300 [512 Cores, Parallel DataCache, GigaThread and ECC Support Coming Soon]

Graphics cards are playing an important role when it comes to choosing our next computer. Whether we want a multimedia machine capable of playing all our favorite movies or whether we’re looking for a powerful device ready to handle our gaming addiction, our computers definitely need a good graphics card. Add some work requirements to the mix and a graphics card is all the more welcome! Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the next generation graphics card from NVIDIA: the GT300 based on Fermi!

Well in all honesty is not mine to give away but I’ll definitely share my thoughts on it. Since I haven’t actually seen Fermi in action yet, and I couldn’t have as it hasn’t been made available yet, I’ll have to rely on NVIDIA and trust its views on the new GPU architecture. And from where I’m sitting, Fermi looks good. In fact it looks better than anything else available right now and I can’t wait to be able to test it.

Fermi is the next generation CUDA architecture from NVIDIA and it’s the most advanced GPU computing available so far. The GT300, the first Fermi-based GPU, will feature about three billion transistors; up to 512 CUDA cores, GDDR5 implementation, 6 channels of 64-bits, a total memory bus of 384-bits and support for up to 6GB of memory. What’s more important is that Fermi graphics cards will be able to offer you the best available performance for 10% of the cost and 5% of regular CPU servers. Did I just catch your attention there?

I should have had, and I’ve got even more to tell you. The Fermi will offer GPU and CPU co-processing thus turning your machine into an even more powerful instrument ready to help you both at home and at work. How will it perform? NVIDIA says that it will deal easier and faster with things like “acceleration in ray tracing, physics, finite element analysis, high-precision scientific computing, sparse linear algebra, sorting and search algorithms.” All those complicated terms must mean only one thing! We’re in for some hot cards coming from NVIDIA with the GT300 being the first one of them.

The most important features that Fermi brings to the table are those 512 CUDA cores, NVIDIA’s Parallel DataCache technology, NVIDIA’s GigaThread engine and ECC support. Look for GT300 in stores when it comes out, and just in case you’re scared of missing it, then keep following us for further details about NVIDIA’s newest GPU technology!