PeterScott
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Given that GV100 is right in line with the same perf/w improvement that Pascal was over Maxwell and Maxwell was over Kepler, you look to be probably off on your prediction.
Pascal and Maxwell are equivalent on the architecture side.
The performance improvement came entirely from clock speed boost.
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There appears to be zero architecture improvements in GV100 at the Cuda core level.
GV100 is has ~40% increase in performance and from the huge die about ~40% increase in Cuda cores.
It also looks like there is negligible increase in transistor density from 12 nm FFN. 12 nm FFN might improve power usage, but that doesn't directly translate into performance for gaming.
All in all I seen nothing in GV100 that points to any significant boost for gaming in Volta.
NVidia may choose to increase the die size in each segment, to squeeze in more Cuda cores, but they could do that with a Pascal refresh and have much the same effect.
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