Fermi refresh coming: GTX 460

I'm not convinced, personally i won't be looking at fermi until they either do a 475/485 refresh or one of those new galaxy cards comes out
 
lol a gtx 460 is considered a refresh because they added a 4 to the gpu code name? lol what a joke..
 
lol a gtx 460 is considered a refresh because they added a 4 to the gpu code name? lol what a joke..
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You'll notice that the article itself actually says nothing about a 'refresh', because this isn't a refresh. Technically it should be a derivative, the first, and most powerful derivative (similar to how Juniper is to Cypress). It's just a shrunken down part with the disabled bits taken out of the design, rather than merely disabled. This is a good sign, a sign that at least NVidia is going to release some mid-range parts into the stream sometime soon, and hopefully retire the venerable G92.
 
Zero82z said:
So it's basically a GTX275 that uses more power? Oh joy.
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But it has a higher number on it and will cost more.....

I'll take 3!


I'm not even going to put the rolleyes in this because if you think I was serious for one second you don't know me. I'm the guy that cases cost too much for folding boxen and a shelf is perfectly fine.
 
If Stanford ever gets the ATI GPU stuff working and optimized, I am curious to see how this would totally screw the "other" team up considering that we have a heck of a lot of gamers on the team who use ATI video cards. I have two 5850 BE's, but it makes no sense to bring them online as the power draw for a mere 4000ppd/gpu would be so wrong. I know that fixing these issues with A3 bigadv are top priority, but I really hope that they bring something for us ATI folks before the weather gets cold again.
 
Zero82z said:
So it's basically a GTX275 that uses more power? Oh joy.
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no... its a GTX275 with dx11 support so it makes up for the excessive power usage.. :p or at least nvidia thinks it does..

Kendrak said:
But it has a higher number on it and will cost more.....

I'll take 3!


I'm not even going to put the rolleyes in this because if you think I was serious for one second you don't know me. I'm the guy that cases cost too much for folding boxen and a shelf is perfectly fine.
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LIEZ! you werent being sarcastic.. i know you have 3 of them on pre-order.. lol jk :p
 
But they are all shiny and have that new videocard smell. So what if the lights in the house dim when I fold and I can use the exhaust from my case to dry my laundry.
 
amdgamer said:
If Stanford ever gets the ATI GPU stuff working and optimized, I am curious to see how this would totally screw the "other" team up considering that we have a heck of a lot of gamers on the team who use ATI video cards. I have two 5850 BE's, but it makes no sense to bring them online as the power draw for a mere 4000ppd/gpu would be so wrong. I know that fixing these issues with A3 bigadv are top priority, but I really hope that they bring something for us ATI folks before the weather gets cold again.
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Vijay has said on his blog this last week that they are "actively working on the OPENCL client with both ATI & Nvidia". To me it sounds like the current code is still in an alpha state but is making slow progress. And yes i agree, if they can get ATI 4xxx/5xxx cards to fold properly it would royally screw you know who.

Vijay's blog:- http://folding.typepad.com/news/2010/05/gpu3-nvidia-open-beta-test-update.html
 
Nathan_P said:
Vijay has said on his blog this last week that they are "actively working on the OPENCL client with both ATI & Nvidia". To me it sounds like the current code is still in an alpha state but is making slow progress. And yes i agree, if they can get ATI 4xxx/5xxx cards to fold properly it would royally screw you know who.

Vijay's blog:- http://folding.typepad.com/news/2010/05/gpu3-nvidia-open-beta-test-update.html
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I didn't realize that the PD had a blog. Thanks for the link as i'm going to bookmark it once i'm done typing this. I just hope it comes out as the weather cools down again as that is always the best time to do things that will add a lot of heat. However the ppd averages would have to be very significant as GPU folding really isn't for me due to the power draw.
 
amdgamer said:
I didn't realize that the PD had a blog. Thanks for the link as i'm going to bookmark it once i'm done typing this. I just hope it comes out as the weather cools down again as that is always the best time to do things that will add a lot of heat. However the ppd averages would have to be very significant as GPU folding really isn't for me due to the power draw.
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I will agree that gpu's do suck a lot of power, however my folding rig which mainly GPU gives me 30k PPD on 580 watts so thats 51PPD/w.

Regarding the blog, no problem , its not on the main stanford site which is probably why people miss it
 
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