Monday, December 19th 2011
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NVIDIA Kepler To Do Away with Hotclocks
Since the days of NVIDIA's very first DirectX 10 GPUs, NVIDIA has been using different clock domains for the shaders and the rest of the GPU (geometry domain). Over the past few generations, the shader clock has been set 2x the geometry domain (the rest of the GPU). 3DCenter.org has learned that with the next-generation "Kepler" family of GPUs, NVIDIA will do away with this "Hotclock" principle. The heavy number-crunching parts of the GPU, the CUDA cores, will run at the same clock-speed as the rest of the GPU.
It is also learned that NVIDIA will have higher core speeds overall. The clock speed of the GK104, for example, is expected to be set "well above 1 GHz", yielding compute power "clearly over 2 TFLOPs" (3DCenter's words). It looks like NVIDIA too will have some significant architectural changes up its sleeve with Kepler.
Source:
3DCenter.org
It is also learned that NVIDIA will have higher core speeds overall. The clock speed of the GK104, for example, is expected to be set "well above 1 GHz", yielding compute power "clearly over 2 TFLOPs" (3DCenter's words). It looks like NVIDIA too will have some significant architectural changes up its sleeve with Kepler.
18 Comments on NVIDIA Kepler To Do Away with Hotclocks
Damn bta, you're on a roll. :toast:
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I wonder if Kepler would still enable domain clock monitoring (and maybe even OC;ing different domains)
If this is treu i gues we have to wait how this performs
In the end,the worst scenario for amd will be comparison like the 6xxx vs 5xx,just a little more step in performance gain,than the temporary gen did with previous one.
Sadly they wont release it when D3, MassEff3 arrive ,and than I`ll have to buy gtx 570 or radeon 6970, 78xx or if budget allow 7950 .
AMD FTW!