Nvidia Pascal GPU to Feature 17B Transistors and 32GB HBM2 VRAM
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Re: Nvidia Pascal GPU to Feature 17B Transistors and 32GB HBM2 VRAM
#2Looks like the next few generations of GPUs are gonna be fast!
Re: Nvidia Pascal GPU to Feature 17B Transistors and 32GB HBM2 VRAM
#3Looks like the next few generations of GPUs are gonna be fast!
I think this may be specs for their Tesla cards. I doubt they would throw 32 HBM2 even on a Titan unless they can keep the price point the same (even for folks who can spend 1k USD have limits on their budget or at least their perception of a budget). But I wouldn't doubt by Q2/2016 Nvidia will be bringing more competition to the market with chips based on HBM usage.
IMO, AMD pulled the trigger a tad too soon on their HBM cards, but to be fair their last line of R9 and R7 cards weren't interesting at least to me (and I have a Radeon HD 7870). So, they had to go first to get their customer base excited for the future.
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#5AMD get it together, pretty please. Nobody wants to live in a world where only NVidia produces discrete GPUs!
That 32GB seems too high for cost constrained consumer market though - may be they will have a leaner variant for desktops/gaming.
Re: Nvidia Pascal GPU to Feature 17B Transistors and 32GB HBM2 VRAM
#64096bit memory interface is surely supercomputer territory.
My ZX81 only had 8192 bits of memory (1KB).
Re: Nvidia Pascal GPU to Feature 17B Transistors and 32GB HBM2 VRAM
#74096bit memory interface is surely supercomputer territory. My ZX81 only had 8192 bits of memory (1KB).
And it could do 3D graphics. Sort of. 3D Monster Maze: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKvd0zPfBE4
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#8What are the parts marked "R125" around the edge?
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#9> The 17 Billion transistors on the Pascal GPU are twice the transistors found on the GM200 Maxwell and the Fiji XT GPU core which is literally insane
Seems like Moore's law is alive and well in the graphics/attached processor space.
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#10What are the parts marked "R125" around the edge?
I believe they are inductors, part of a switch-mode power supply to reduce the voltage of incoming power to the level required by the cores (AFAIK ~1V).