Conclusions - Part 1

It’s obviously not an easy task trying to make any in-depth considerations on a GPU architecture, having only a few technical specifications and without a card to actually do tests with. From what we could know of the Fermi architecture, the GF100 represents a very important yet complex project to nVIDIA: this could be one of the reasons why the GF100 cards have been delayed on their launch.

The use of a new architecture together with a new process as the 40nm one is in general a combination that could bring some problems during the manufacturing. This seems to be the case on the Fermi GF100 solutions, that will be launched later than nVIDIA had initially planned. We aren’t sure how much that’s to be blamed on nVIDIA or on TSMC, the manufacturing partner: it’s obvious that as the fabrication process advances, there could be more and more manufacturing problems.