NVIDIA Said to Detail Next-Generation Cards Today

One of the most anticipated launches this year has to be NVIDIA's next generation of DX 11-compatible graphics cards, which the graphics chip maker has been rumored to be working on for some time now. A number of rumors have surfaced on the Internet, related to said GPU, but the majority of details are yet to emerge. However, according to one of the most recent reports that have recently surfaced, the Santa Clara, California-based graphics chip maker is preparing to provide us with some details on the forthcoming GPU, internally codenamed Fermi.

The details are allegedly going to be made public during today's GPU Technology Conference, held between September 30 and October 2, at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California. The keynote for the first day belongs to Jen-Hsun Huang, the company's CEO and founding member, who is expected to deliver the much-anticipated details regarding his company's new line of desktop graphic cards, according to a recent news-article on Fudzilla.

There have been many reports on the Internet lately, regarding the upcoming GeForce lineup, but everything is pretty much speculation, as NVIDIA has been very tight-lipped regarding the new GPU. According to some rumors, the new cards should surface sometime before the end of this year, or as early as next year, but everything could be clearer after today's conference.

NVIDIA needs to regain the number one spot in the high-performance segment, after AMD has successfully introduced its latest line of Radeon HD 58xx series of cards, which have been featured with a 40nm GPU and support for Microsoft's DirectX 11 API, as well as a number of performance improvements that make AMD's latest GPU surpass that of NVIDIA's line of GT200-based cards, in terms of performance and features delivered.