Friday, February 10th 2012
NVIDIA GeForce Kepler Packs Radically Different Number Crunching Machinery
NVIDIA is bound to kickstart its competitive graphics processor lineup to AMD's Southern Islands Radeon HD 7000 series with GeForce Kepler 104 (GK104). We are learning through reliable sources that NVIDIA will implement a radically different design (by NVIDIA's standards anyway) for its CUDA core machinery, while retaining the basic hierarchy of components in its GPU similar to Fermi. The new design would ensure greater parallelism. The latest version of GK104's specifications looks like this:
SIMD Hierarchy
Source:
3DCenter.org
SIMD Hierarchy
- 4 Graphics Processing Clusters (GPC)
- 4 Streaming Multiprocessors (SM) per GPC = 16 SM
- 96 Stream Processors (SP) per SM = 1536 CUDA cores
- 8 Texture Units (TMU) per SM = 128 TMUs
- 32 Raster OPeration Units (ROPs)
- 256-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface
- 2048 MB (2 GB) memory amount standard
- 950 MHz core/CUDA core (no hot-clocks)
- 1250 MHz actual (5.00 GHz effective) memory, 160 GB/s memory bandwidth
- 2.9 TFLOP/s single-precision floating point compute power
- 486 GFLOP/s double-precision floating point compute power
- Estimated die-area 340mm²
139 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce Kepler Packs Radically Different Number Crunching Machinery
ps.. answer my post from like 2 pages ago (only yesterday) please :) .. is Kepler still on for 3/22 since you hold all the answer oh enlighted one? lol
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Doesn't matter much anyway, console ports aren't going to get much more demanding any time soon.
I want Kepler to start a price war, but the more I think about it the less I care. Outside of benchmarking, folding and E-peen, there really isn't that much need for that much power.
As long as the current gen consoles are holding PC back, Kepler could be 10 million times more powerful than GCN and nobody would really notice.
this is the link that through other posts led me to this forum > lenzfire.com/2012/02/entire-nvidia-kepler-series-specifications-price-release-date-43823/
Now, who know those number could be all speculation, what's important to me is the 500 to 600 series translations. Is the kepler DK104 despite being the 560 chip gonna to be upgraded enought to make the 660Ti perform on par with previous GTX580s, the GTX 660 = the 570 and the 650 Ti = the 560 ti, etc. etc. etc... Prices for the 660Ti seem higher so is the preposed kepler DK104 660Ti jumping up to fill the shoes of the old GTX580? That's what i'm looking for...seems logical. And notice the GTX 650 Ti? Apparently this sees the 650ti/aka 550ti stepping up and taking the 560Ti's place with the possible 650Ti =560 ti preformance and 560ti price point. Some people are spectulating this is not true data but seems logical. Confirm/deny please. These figures seem to indicate a total upward shift in all products in Nvidia's proposed 600/700 series (still not sure if it's gonna be 600/700 sources vary). The upward shift of all products would seriously rock if legit technology and benches. I'd love to buy a brand new 660Ti with better TPU numbers and lower heat that can perform on par with the GTx 580 solo and like the 560tis in SLI and that has the new xxAA > www.fudzilla.com/home/item/26378-nvidia-kepler-gpus-may-introduce-new-anti-aliasing-technique that's been speculated on. THAT's what i'm TALK'N BOUT! ;)
Also good point on console holding back PC but MMOs are reigning supreme on PC atm and some good ones due to release soon hopefully (Space Marines 40k Online FTW). PC/PC Gaming will always be a higher end niche product at this point because $300.00 per video card vs $300.00 for whole console with blue ray = no brainer for lower end markets and right now manufactures are pouring money into console gaming like honey over sticky buns. If the money where there PC would be on top but gaming went FROM PCs to consoles sole cause more affordable mass market avenue.
I can't wait for the Kepler reviews. I'm really more interested in the OC capabilities.
If it can clock as well as the 7000 series, it looks like Nvidia has a real winner on it's hands. If not, it should start a price war just by beating the 7970 at stock.
Either way, it looks like the next couple months are going to be interesting.
Welcome to TPU, by the way.
More on the clocking aspects? If it OC's that well with that jump in performance that would great. Especially if Nvidia 600s follow suite :) :rockout: PS... thanks for the welcome loving TPU atm I'm learning a lot and getting good info from a lot of the posters. And bonus =I haven't been kicked "yet" lol ;)
PS please excuse me from being dense or missing the lingo but yes or no is kepler still coming out on 3/22/2012 ?
PSS> correction : 660Ti perform on par with previous GTX580s, the GTX 660 = the 570 and the 650 Ti = the 560 ti, etc. etc. etc...=
660TI perform on 10% better than 7950 per that link the rest is in the link... seems a stretch but if they pull it off holy moley. lenzfire.com/2012/02/entire-n...se-date-43823/ I know the links from Feb but still may be viable cause even the post of specs in this forum is speculative.. nothings final till release.
I guess that we'll know for sure if we get a flood of reviews around midnight tomorrow night.
Gosh I hope it's 3/22... gives me time to see if the 650Ti is going to perform like a 570 (or if the 660ti is going to perform like a 580 or higher :) ) before D3 launch in May. :rockout:
PSS new update.. new leak 7 hours old!! Some of it's old news though... I know this may be a double post and I'm sorry but since it's new reviews only 7 hours old I didn't want them to get lost in previous post and not have them seen.
Forgive me please :beg:
www.fudzilla.com/home/item/26459-geforce-kepler-gk110-basic-specs-leaked
TXAA looks freaking awesome.. hope it's as smooth as he says with minimal FPS loss. This could be an awesome bonus new AA tech and aspect of the card!
Full Card specs > www.geforce.com/hardware/desk...specifications
@ 8% increase over GTX 580.. not a huge difference but all and all a lot of refinements and hopefully an all around better card.