At Pepcom’s highly acclaimed digital experience event, Nvidia finally showed its Fermi GF100 graphics card, and this time it was actually working. Nvidia did show a Fermi dummy board back in October 2009, but three months later, they have got to the stage when they are comfortable with showing the actual card to the world. 

The card features a dual slot design and needs two power connectors, which is actually nothing new for this part of the graphics market. The cooler completely surrounds the card and our first impression was that the card was noisy and probably quite hot.



Nvidia representatives did try to assure us that the final card can end up cooler and quieter, but this is something that we will have to wait and see. The card was running Uniengine in DirectX 11 and they did demonstrate tessellation, one of the cool features of DirectX 11, but we couldn’t see any performance figures.



Nvidia hosts its Editor’s Day in the next few days in Las Vegas, so we are quite sure that they will let people know a lot more about the card.