At long last, initial photos of the GT300, NVIDIA’s revolutionary new video card has been unvieled for the world to see, and to photograph!
At the NVIDIA GTC conference being hosted today in San Jose, Hardware Canucks got the chance to cover the event in hopes we would see the long awaited video card rear its head, and show itself it did!
Thankfully this thing doesn’t appear to be a behmoth like the competition. It takes a practical approach and simple dual slot cooler, however this is said to be the Telsa model and therefore intended for workstations and GPU computing tasks, rather than gaming. It is suspected that the final product for desktops will look slightly different. The card also features only a single DVI port, but again, likely for the reasons mentioned above. It would appear that the card is powered solely by a single 8-pin PCIe power connector at the back of the card, bringing questions about the rumoured high power requirement of the card.
The images below feature NVIDIA’s CEO Jen-Hsun Huang holding the card and imaged on a 3D screen (hence the blur).
Update: Pictures have been added of shots of the card itself close up, as well as the physical Fermi chip.








September 30, 2009 03:16 PM
So now that the GT300 is official from NVIDIA and pictured at the GTC, when will we get the card?
September 30, 2009 04:07 PM
Wow, way smaller than the 5800 series. At least I won't have to worry about the space in my future case.
October 1, 2009 04:45 PM
Added a few pictures of the actual card and GPU die. Interesting to note that it seems powered only by a rear 8 pin PCIe connection. Wonder if the 300W rumours are true?
October 1, 2009 05:01 PM
He's getting his greasy paws all over the pins on the PCI-E connector!
October 1, 2009 05:04 PM
They had someone there to buff the card.
You may also notice it says "Tesla" all over it.
October 1, 2009 05:44 PM
Here are some cool videos. The GPU in the pics is clearly not the gaming/consumer version but the tesla version.
YouTube - NVIDIA GT300 (Fermi) first live demo in GTC 2009
YouTube - NVIDIA Fermi Architecture Interview - PC Perspective
YouTube - NVIDIA GTC 2009 Fermi (GT300) Real Time Physics Demo
The last one is from HWC :)
October 1, 2009 05:58 PM
i think i just came... ill take 2...
October 1, 2009 06:13 PM
There's rumors going around that the card seen at GTC is a fake...
October 1, 2009 06:19 PM
October 1, 2009 06:25 PM
It's the Tesla model, not GTX380. So it does not need a lot of display outputs (or any really) and Nvidia must be on top of power consumption.
October 2, 2009 10:28 AM
October 2, 2009 10:49 AM
See our Twitter page for an update. Discuss.
October 2, 2009 11:01 AM
Sorry.
I'm not a twitter fan.
October 2, 2009 11:32 AM
Sorry.
I'm not a twitter fan.
Hardware Canucks (hardwarecanucks) on Twitter
October 2, 2009 11:35 AM
Segregating the forums like this is simply not cool.
IF you guys can't post stuff like that on here for valid reasons they say so or don't say anything period.
October 2, 2009 11:43 AM
It takes 10 seconds to write a twitter post. 30 minutes or more to write 250 words for a news post.
For information like this in this fashion, twitter will be Hardware Canuck's first method of announcement
Not saying you have to go to twitter - but if you want the information "now" - that is where you will find it.
October 2, 2009 11:47 AM
For information like this in this fashion, twitter will be Hardware Canuck's first method of announcement
Not saying you have to go to twitter - but if you want the information "now" - that is where you will find it.
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum...vaporware.html
October 2, 2009 11:48 AM
Sorry.
I'm not a twitter fan.
October 2, 2009 12:03 PM
Some people don't like change
October 2, 2009 12:03 PM
Why both using two different mediums to get the message across?
Isn't that what the forums were and are inteded as? A way to get the message across?
October 2, 2009 04:57 PM
Why both using two different mediums to get the message across?
Isn't that what the forums were and are inteded as? A way to get the message across?
October 2, 2009 05:06 PM
Keep the twitter going; way nicer to check than having to read the forums all the time. forums are here for in depth stuff not brief news releases!
October 2, 2009 08:04 PM
Sorry I'm with Enab on this...not into jumping all over the place for HW info....this is my source.