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Nvidia teases Pascal
Published in Graphics
Tuesday, 03 May 2016 13:56

Nvidia teases Pascal


"Order of 10" with a side order of chips

Nvidia has set up a website designed to tease the release of its Pascal-based graphics cards.

AMD Polaris 10 has 390/390X performance
Published in Graphics


For less than $299

AMD is about to launch two GPUs soon. One is codenmamed Polaris 10 and will replace Radeon 390 cards and the other, the Polaris 11 should replace the Radeon 370 and take on Geforce 950 performance.

Nvidia mid-range Pascal graphics cards rumored for Q3 2016
Published in Graphics


Based on GP106 GPU

According to the latest report, Nvidia plans to launch next-generation mainstream segment graphics cards, based on GP106 GPU, in Autumn, or late Q3/early Q4 2016.

Another Geforce GTX 1080 picture appears online
Published in Graphics


Looks real enough 

As Nvidia's next-generation Geforce graphics cards are scheduled to launch sometime around Computex 2016 show in June, it does not come as a surprise to see a couple of leaks including the latest one which shows the Geforce GTX 1080 graphics card.

Nvidia Geforce Pascal GPUs launching at Computex 2016
Published in Graphics


Mass shipments begin in July

According to sources within Nvdia’s supply chain,  the company is preparing to announce its Geforce series Pascal GPUs sometime around or during Computex 2016 in Taipei, Taiwan.

Nvidia's P100 pictured
Published in Graphics
Wednesday, 06 April 2016 23:48

Nvidia's P100 pictured

HPC supercomputer

Nvidia's 16-nanometer Pascal P100 for super computer is out in the wild. Fudzilla managed to make a picture of the GPU surrounded by four HMB 2 memory chips and voltage regulators. 

Mid-range Pascal gets GDDR5-class memory
Published in Graphics
Wednesday, 06 April 2016 14:33

Mid-range Pascal gets GDDR5-class memory


Huang pimps up Pascal

NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang mentioned an upcoming mid-range GPU based on the company’s next-generation “Pascal” architecture which will not use HBM2 memory..

Nvidia's GP100 Pascal GPU has 56 SMs enabled
Published in Graphics


Out of 60 possible

Nvidia confirmed that there are 56 streaming multiprocessor (SM) units each having 64 CUDA cores enabled on the GP100 GPU. This results in 3,584 cores on the Tesla P100 GPU. However, this leaves 4 SM cores disabled as the total number of SM’s is 60.

Pascal P100 610mm^2 is in volume production
Published in Graphics


Today

Jen-Hsun Huang just announced Pascal P100 a new GPU based on Pascal architecture, and it is in production, shipping "soon."

Inside Nvidia's GP100 Pascal GPU
Published in News
Thursday, 07 April 2016 07:46

Inside Nvidia's GP100 Pascal GPU


Still no NVLINK support for consumer x86 CPUs