Since the GPU Technology Conference last September, NVIDIA maintains that the first graphics cards based on the Fermi architecture will be available before the end of the year. From the beginning, some people had doubted the credibility of these assertions. The latest rumors indicate that NVIDIA is currently working hard to get cards "functional" for the CES in Las Vegas in January. Furthermore, we were informed this morning by Nvidia as the main event for the firm to the chameleon at CES will be a press conference at the Venetian the day before the show concern and mobile solutions, so Tegra. No big announcement on Fermi on the horizon ...

The cards would be finalized later this month, and actual availability is expected in stores in the best case, in February. The two brothers (HardOCP and DriverHeaven) that relay this information, however, suspect availability in quantity until March ... Such a delay would leave AMD as the only vendor solutions DirectX 11 for 5 months. At one time, was the cycle between two generations of graphics cards, almost!

We know well the design of Fermi, 512 stream processors (maximum, we should see variations of land with less SPs), 3 billion transistors, a cache of 768 KB, a memory bus 384-bit wide ... etc.. However, NVIDIA has still not reported on the performance of its solution in. .. Meanwhile Fermi, he will do with the EVGA cards bizarre!