It looks like dual Fermi won’t be coming
anytime soon. A few partners have said that at this time they are not aware
that there will be a dual Fermi card and if Nvidia decides to make one, it
won't be close to March 27th's single GF100 launch.
Dual Fermi can be expected hopefully
towards the end of Q2 2010 and the high thermal dissipation and complexity of cards
are few reasons for this postponement. Nvidia would definitely like to
have dual cards out, but it might take a little while before it happens.
A good news is that mainstream and entry
level Fermi versions should be coming this summer, slightly delayed from its
original plan, but for the Dual card, it’s not certain when should it
happen. Nvidia is not telling much to us or its partners either.
So in the next few months we guess that
Radeon HD 5970 will remain the fastest card around and this is not something
that Nvidia and its fearsome Jensen likes. You can be sure that Nvidia is not
at all thrilled for this delay, but everything related to Fermi
looks quite delayed and definitely doesn't sound like a walk in the park, but apparently it's possible.
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