Tuesday, April 23rd 2013
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 700 Series Coming This May
AMD may have declared that its next-generation GPU family won't arrive before October, but that isn't stopping NVIDIA from launching its GeForce GTX 700 series much earlier. While AMD's lineup is banking on sales during the X'mas shopping season, NVIDIA is going after the pre-Summer system upgrade crowd. According to a Bright Side of News (BSN) report, NVIDIA's new lineup will make its debut no later than this May.
According to the BSN report, GeForce GTX 700 series will be heavily based on existing GeForce Kepler silicon, with a handful feature-set updates, and some clever product stack adjustments. The part that succeeds today's GeForce GTX 680, the GeForce GTX 780, could be based on the 28 nm GK110 silicon, and could very well be the fabled "GTX TITAN LE" part that's been in the news for some time now, as being a scaled down GeForce GTX TITAN, with 2496 CUDA cores, 208 TMUs, 40 ROPs, and a 320-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, holding 5 GB of memory.
The GeForce GTX 770 could be similar to today's GeForce GTX 680, in featuring 1536 CUDA cores, 128 TMUs, 32 ROPs, and a 256-bit wide memory interface, probably holding 4 GB of memory; and the GeForce GTX 760 Ti being similar to today's GeForce GTX 670, featuring 1344 CUDA cores, 112 TMUs, 32 ROPs, and 256-bit wide memory interface, holding 2 GB of memory; so you see where NVIDIA is going with its product stack.
GeForce GTX 700 series could present NVIDIA the opportunity to introduce a few new features that don't involve redesigning existing silicon. These include GPU Boost 2.0, as implemented on the GeForce GTX TITAN, higher clock speeds across the board to current GeForce GTX 600 series models the new SKUs are evolving from, and of course double the memory amounts on certain cards.
The very first GeForce GTX 700 series part could be launched in mid-May, and could probably be the GTX 770 and GTX 760 Ti, being launched as precursors to a grand GTX 780 launch towards the end of May. Computex 2013 could see a swarm of GeForce GTX 700 series cards from NVIDIA's various add-in card vendors being exhibited.
Source:
Bright Side of News
According to the BSN report, GeForce GTX 700 series will be heavily based on existing GeForce Kepler silicon, with a handful feature-set updates, and some clever product stack adjustments. The part that succeeds today's GeForce GTX 680, the GeForce GTX 780, could be based on the 28 nm GK110 silicon, and could very well be the fabled "GTX TITAN LE" part that's been in the news for some time now, as being a scaled down GeForce GTX TITAN, with 2496 CUDA cores, 208 TMUs, 40 ROPs, and a 320-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, holding 5 GB of memory.
The GeForce GTX 770 could be similar to today's GeForce GTX 680, in featuring 1536 CUDA cores, 128 TMUs, 32 ROPs, and a 256-bit wide memory interface, probably holding 4 GB of memory; and the GeForce GTX 760 Ti being similar to today's GeForce GTX 670, featuring 1344 CUDA cores, 112 TMUs, 32 ROPs, and 256-bit wide memory interface, holding 2 GB of memory; so you see where NVIDIA is going with its product stack.
GeForce GTX 700 series could present NVIDIA the opportunity to introduce a few new features that don't involve redesigning existing silicon. These include GPU Boost 2.0, as implemented on the GeForce GTX TITAN, higher clock speeds across the board to current GeForce GTX 600 series models the new SKUs are evolving from, and of course double the memory amounts on certain cards.
The very first GeForce GTX 700 series part could be launched in mid-May, and could probably be the GTX 770 and GTX 760 Ti, being launched as precursors to a grand GTX 780 launch towards the end of May. Computex 2013 could see a swarm of GeForce GTX 700 series cards from NVIDIA's various add-in card vendors being exhibited.
46 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 700 Series Coming This May
TITAN LE aka 780 was on par with 7970 GHZ
Titan came out to be around 28% faster then 680. So very little room to manuever for the 780. If AMD decided to bring about a 7970 GHZ refresh and for referance look at the Cape Verde to Bonaire improvements.Wasnt that the case and that upset a lot of buyers. 670 being so close to 680 performance. Is it gonna be release and wait 2 months for sales and then upset people all over again.
There has to be something more to it or it just looks like a squeezing blood from a stone strategy.
IE: 680 perf> renamed 770, 670 perf> renamed 760 rinse and repeat whilst charging the same price for performance, only the high end sees a performance increase though expect to pay $600-$1000 for that
Not to mention the price :shadedshu
Kind of depressing. Just overclock your current 600 series cards and save the money if there is no architectual differences.
If someone has a video card that is pre-600 series or pre-7000 series it might make sense, but it seems a bit wasteful to upgrade if you already had a Kepler GPU unless you're upgrading from a mainstream card. I think enthusiasts will be disappointed where the general market will be happy with it or people entering the enthusiast market who don't already have a nice card will be happy with it, but it doesn't seem to be much of an upgrade for 680/670 owners.
also, if we indeed end up having new cards being 5% faster and saving 15watts it would be good for me cause i'd be able to keep my 7970 for a long time, thus making it a good buy :D
There's a lot of rumour though that the 8xxx series from AMD is a GCN refresh as well though so it seems both camps may be tinkering and doing nothing more than maturing their processes and software to boot.
Main difference is, AMD will probably do it at a consumer acceptable price point but Nvidia will feed off the Titan price point. Go figure, nothing new there, unfortunately.They do. It's called a HD7990.
If the low end -> high end scheme is only determined by the chip yields then the Kepler yield is as stable for the low end as it is for the high end, and holding back the 650 replacement would be strange.
What would be nice to see, if this is true, is performance going up, as the article states, and the price point for the x50, x60, x70, x80 categories to be the same. And that also would be strange in regards to the 650 Ti Boost as they would massively angry they're customers.
I really don't see how Nvidia could make any move at this point without upsetting the 650 Ti Boost customers. Guess the only option would be to increase prices, but that is impossible with the performance per $ AMD gives.
I don't say that Nvidia is not willing to sacrifice customer satisfaction, i only point out the result of their presumed actions.
GK110 with 13 blocks out of 15 enabled and 5GBs of VRAM, should pack quite a punch, over 80% of Titan's performance depending on clocks at half the price, not bad at all.
:shadedshu
I for one will probably get a 2nd 680 and a 1440p monitor.
I hope thats not the case this time around and we dont get surprised with a GK204.
Financially it makes more sense for them to do a GK104-GK204 then to sell GK110 for volume sales of a 700 series line-up.
I too want a new monitor but I have my eye on the Samsung SC series which they been delaying for EVER!!! <Punch cute kitten in the thoat>
though idk if they would/could clock it over 1000mhz, but 900+ is very likely
You guys really didn't expect anything other than a refresh with a couple new features/tweaks did you? I didn't think so. I suggest waiting for maxwell if you currently own a 600/7000 series card before upgrading anything other than adding to a sli/crossfire setup. If your card is older gen, then it may be a good buy if the prices are right.
Also, sign the "no ultra" petition!
That would make 600 series obsolete aswell as Titan.
Say Nvidia intros 780 = Titan gaming performance minus the dp compute. Nvidia just takes out two of there top products in one. Those being TITAN and 690.
Makes a little bit more sense if they now dont care about those two products and are countering the new competition