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NVidia GF100 – In production

Posted on 22. Jan, 2010 by The James in Computers, Gaming

According to Newsfactor.com, Nvidia’s new GF100 video card is already in production and should be available later this quarter.  Here are some interesting facts about the GF100:

-Geared toward 3D to create what Nvidia calls “3D Vision Surround”, an immersive environment for running games across three panels.

-Though the GF100 only supports two displays per chip, Nvidia expects to implement 3D Vision Surround through the company’s Nvidia SLI platform, which intelligently scales graphics performance by combining multiple graphics chips on an SLI-certified motherboard.

-First Nvidia GPU to be based on ‘Fermi’, a third-generation architecture featuring streaming multiprocessor technology.

-The GF100 will be able to implement all DirectX 11 hardware features, including DirectCompute and tessellation, which enables the creation of intimately detailed characters in films by refining large triangles into collections of smaller triangles.

-GF100 will enable the execution of a wide range of effects — including motion blur, soft shadows, transparency and depth of field — at speeds up to 20 times faster than previous-generation GPUs.