14 DAY TRIAL // Many end-users were most likely hoping that NVIDIA would at least give a few details on the product specifications of its upcoming Fermi-based graphics adapters at CeBIT, even though the launch won't happen before March 26th. Unfortunately, the GPU maker definitely didn't say a word on the cards and the few alleged pictures that have made their way to the web haven't exactly revealed much, nor have they yet been confirmed as genuine. Still, to at least remotely appease the consumers' Fermi thirst, a number of new photos have fallen in the hands of the folks at ComputerBase.
The new photos supposedly show both the GeForce GTX 470 and the GTX 480 cards unboxed and stripped of their cooling modules. Unfortunately, specifications remain a mystery even now. All that is known is what was previously speculated upon. The GTX 470 will supposedly have 1280MB of memory operating on an interface of 320 bits, whereas the GeForce GTX 480 will come with 1536MB of memory and an interface of 384 bits. The cards also supposedly have 448 and 512 CUDA cores, respectively.
The only taste of Fermi at CeBIT were a few so-called demonstrations of Fermi performance on the part of NVIDIA's partners. Of course, none of them were allowed to breathe a word of the clock speeds, which are even now unknown. Fortunately, a series of pictures depicting the alleged Gigabyte GTX 470 and 480 made their way online, but the mistakes on the packages, which showed memory capacities and other info erroneously, seem to indicate that they were fake. Of course, there is no way to confirm that these new pictures are genuine either.
It seems that, even after all this time, the only thing that is known for sure about NVIDIA's next-generation adapters is that they will support DirectX 11. As for specs, however, it seems that, at least for now, consumers will have to settle for waiting for March 26 to come. NVIDIA will formally introduce its products at PAX 2010.
