It's sure taken 'em long enough, but the
Wall Street Journal is reporting that
NVIDIA will finally allow the long-awaited
Fermi design to reveal itself to the world. We're guessing that the
GeForce GTX 470 and GTX 480 that we've been hearing (and
hearing) about will be the flagship GPUs to get launched, but whatever the case, the
WSJ assures us that the new line will "more than double the performance of its current products." As you'd expect, the Fermi cards -- which will ship with
512 480 or 446 cores (depending on model), three billion transistors and a whole heap of expectations -- will support 3D titles along with the latest video processing software, but they'll also be aimed at more unconventional markets like "medical research and oil-field exploration." Sounds gnarly, NVIDIA, but we're just interested in seeing our frame rates hit triple digits in
Crysis 2 -- got it?
