Nvidia’s Fermi GPU gets cut back
Nvidia has had to cut back its Fermi GPU because of the chip’s low wafer yields and its high heat output, if the latest reports are to believed.
Fermi has long been thought to be too hot to handle and Nvidia has now cut down the number of stream processors to 448 instead of the previous 512, and it has admitted that the GPU chip will be a 225 Watt part. Nvidia’s own Fermi information pages still show it as having 512 SPs, but according to a recent PDF this is no longer the case.
