NVIDIA’s Fermi architecture is widely known as GT300/G300 and hopes to replace the current GT200 architecture with its 3 billion transistors in Q1. Even if Fermi will not be launched until Q1 2010 the first GeForce 3xx card has been spotted. Alas it is now based on NVIDIA’s new Fermi architecture, but once again NVIDIA is just fiddling with numbers to confuse buyers. GeForce 310 is more or less identical to GeForce 210, based on the NVIDIA GT218 GPU.
The cards have the same number of CUDA processors (shader units), 16, and even operate at the same speed. Not to mention the physical design that is also identical.
We have no idea why NVIDIA has launched GeForce 310 and what makes it so much better than GeForce 210. Anyhow we can safely say that the Fermi architecture is nowhere near to launch, very much not in the form of GeForce 310.
The card is listed at NVIDIA’s own product website and can be ordered from HP’s online store.
