Sunday, November 6th 2011
New 28 nm Graphics Cards To Be 45 Percent Faster And Overclock Like Never Before?
The next generation NVIDIA and AMD GPU's are going to be built on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) brand new 28 nm process, which may offer a 45% speed boost to these new products. Smaller geometries usually mean that a processor will use less power and can be made smaller, faster and more cheaply than previously. It's good news then that TSMC reports that the new process is ready for mass production and is running very well indeed. So well in fact, that unnamed sources within TSMC claim the new 28 nm process allows for a 45% increase in clock speed over the current 40 nm process. Put this together with improved GPU architectures and the next generation of graphics cards could be wickedly fast, something every enthusiast likes to see. However, it appears that NVIDIA and AMD may go for a blend of performance and power usage, rather than outright performance, since power use of modern graphics cards is already hitting limits of acceptability. So, does this mean that these new cards will overclock like never before? We will have to wait and see. AMD's cards should be out around the new year and NVIDIA's a couple of months later.
Head on over to DailyTech for a lot more detail on this.
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64 Comments on New 28 nm Graphics Cards To Be 45 Percent Faster And Overclock Like Never Before?
Where's another Crysis when we need one.
Dead Space was a port and it was one of my favorite games to play
Crysis 2 as a pc game was a failure. IMO
( For example tesselated planks of wood, flat planks of wood. The sea being tesselated under the city even though you couldn't see it)
But yeah it is better.AMD CPU's are very different from their GPU's. They have not missed on the GPU side in quite some time.
Fermi is such an ugly chip on it's high end, especially in its first incarnation (GF100) the 480 left me with such a bad impression about it, high temperatures (I can live with this) and insane power draw...
Luckily Nvidia tried to fix some of the issues with the GF110 on the 5xx series but anyway you can't expect a lot of efficiency from such a big chip :shadedshu
I seriously hope that next GPU generation puts efficiency before performance because a single chip shouldn't draw that much power :banghead:
Therefore, if the next gen pulls a similar amount of power with better performance, it won't be a problem either.
Probably I'm over reacting to what the GTX 480 was and the GTX 580 isn't that bad :toast:I wouldn't bet on that :D
In fact, the 580 actually uses the same amount of power as a 480, because nvidia used the efficiency improvements to up the rendering power.
I shouldn't really complain about power draw I know :p
EDIT : I'm also lazy as hell with cable management, if I were to post a screenshot of my rig many of you would slap me for the wiring XD
45% Higher Clock Speeds, Slight increase more shaders/transistors and your going to have 45% + performance.
No one can really predict, but if you can cram more on that 28nm die, and still clock like a bastard, and still keep it cool then its a good prediction, which is usually true by tsmc.
There is usually just manufacturing and design problems that sometimes make smaller nm processes a little sketchy compared to there spacey brothern.
I expect the HD 7970 to be between 2x to 3x faster than the HD 6970 for a 28nm Next Gen Design. Along with stipping the problematic 32nm process.