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May 9, 2015
"The upcoming PK100 and PK104 graphics processing units will not only feature major architectural innovations, but they will also be made using either 14nm or 16nm manufacturing technology with fin-shaped field-effect transistors (FinFETs).
“Pascal” GPUs will be the first graphics chips from Nvidia to be made using an all-new process technology since “Kepler” in 2012. Finer fabrication process is something that should permit Nvidia engineers to considerably increase the number of stream processors and other units inside the company’s future GPUs, dramatically increasing their performance.
In addition, next-generation graphics processing units from Nvidia will support second-generation stacked high-bandwidth memory (HBM2). The HBM2 will let Nvidia and its partners build graphics cards with up to 32GB of onboard memory and 820GB/s – 1TB/s bandwidth. Performance of such graphics adapters in ultra-high-definition (UHD) resolutions like 4K (3840*2160, 4096*2160) and 5K (5120*2880) should be extremely high.
For supercomputers, the “Big Pascal” chip will integrate NVLink interconnection tech with 80GB/s or higher bandwidth, which will significantly increase performance of “Pascal”-based Tesla accelerators in high-performance computing (HPC) applications. Moreover, NVLink could bring major improvements to multi-GPU technologies thanks to increased bandwidth for inter-GPU communications.
“We have found over the years to be able to focus on just one thing, which is visual computing, and be able to leverage that one thing across PC, cloud, and mobile, and be able to address four very large markets with that one thing: gaming, enterprise, cloud, and automotive,” said Mr. Huang. “We can do this one thing and now be able to enjoy all and deliver the capabilities to the market in all three major computing platforms, and gain four vertical markets that are quite frankly very exciting.”
Kit-Guru
Sounds phenomenal!
Bonus:
At a press conference in Tokyo, Japan, Nvidia revealed that it would release its graphics processing units powered by the “Volta” architecture in 2017, one year after the first GPUs featuring the “Pascal” architecture will see the light of the day, 4Gamer.net reports. Nvidia did not reveal the difference between “Pascal” and “Volta”, but one of the features the latter is expected to support is second-generation NVLink with 80GB/s – 200GB/s bandwidth.
Kit-Guru
"The upcoming PK100 and PK104 graphics processing units will not only feature major architectural innovations, but they will also be made using either 14nm or 16nm manufacturing technology with fin-shaped field-effect transistors (FinFETs).
“Pascal” GPUs will be the first graphics chips from Nvidia to be made using an all-new process technology since “Kepler” in 2012. Finer fabrication process is something that should permit Nvidia engineers to considerably increase the number of stream processors and other units inside the company’s future GPUs, dramatically increasing their performance.
In addition, next-generation graphics processing units from Nvidia will support second-generation stacked high-bandwidth memory (HBM2). The HBM2 will let Nvidia and its partners build graphics cards with up to 32GB of onboard memory and 820GB/s – 1TB/s bandwidth. Performance of such graphics adapters in ultra-high-definition (UHD) resolutions like 4K (3840*2160, 4096*2160) and 5K (5120*2880) should be extremely high.
For supercomputers, the “Big Pascal” chip will integrate NVLink interconnection tech with 80GB/s or higher bandwidth, which will significantly increase performance of “Pascal”-based Tesla accelerators in high-performance computing (HPC) applications. Moreover, NVLink could bring major improvements to multi-GPU technologies thanks to increased bandwidth for inter-GPU communications.
“We have found over the years to be able to focus on just one thing, which is visual computing, and be able to leverage that one thing across PC, cloud, and mobile, and be able to address four very large markets with that one thing: gaming, enterprise, cloud, and automotive,” said Mr. Huang. “We can do this one thing and now be able to enjoy all and deliver the capabilities to the market in all three major computing platforms, and gain four vertical markets that are quite frankly very exciting.”
Kit-Guru
Sounds phenomenal!
Bonus:
At a press conference in Tokyo, Japan, Nvidia revealed that it would release its graphics processing units powered by the “Volta” architecture in 2017, one year after the first GPUs featuring the “Pascal” architecture will see the light of the day, 4Gamer.net reports. Nvidia did not reveal the difference between “Pascal” and “Volta”, but one of the features the latter is expected to support is second-generation NVLink with 80GB/s – 200GB/s bandwidth.
Kit-Guru
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