Company Nvidia unveiled details of its future graphics processors. The code name for these chips Fermi, and their architecture differs substantially from the GeForce, Quadro, and Tesla.

It is known that a new generation of Nvidia graphics chips will increase the number of cells to 512. The speed of the chips will increase substantially.

In addition,  chips Fermi among the first devices of this class will have a hierarchical cache memory. The first level of cache will be used for operational information, the second – to solve more complex and resource-intensive tasks.

It is assumed that the first graphics card based on Fermi chips will appear before the end of this year.