CES 2010: So far, hot and noisy
At Pepcom’s highly acclaimed digital experience event,
Nvidia finally showed its Fermi GF100 graphics card, and this time it was
actually working. Nvidia did show a Fermi dummy board back in October 2009, but three months
later, they have got to the stage when they are comfortable with showing the actual
card to the world.
The card features a dual slot design and needs two power
connectors, which is actually nothing new for this part of the graphics market.
The cooler completely surrounds the card and our first impression was that the
card was noisy and probably quite hot.
Nvidia representatives did try to assure us that the final
card can end up cooler and quieter, but this is something that we will have to
wait and see. The card was running Uniengine in DirectX 11 and they did
demonstrate tessellation, one of the cool features of DirectX 11, but we
couldn’t see any performance figures.
Nvidia hosts its Editor’s Day in the next few days in Las
Vegas, so we are quite sure that they will let people know a lot more about the
card.
