Monday, April 25th 2016
New GP104 ASIC Picture Hints at GTX 1080 with GDDR5X Memory
A new picture of NVIDIA GP104 "Pascal" ASIC surrounded with GDDR5X memory chips hints at the possibility of NVIDIA reserving the new fast memory standard for the GTX 1080, and older GDDR5 for the more affordable GTX 1070. The picture reveals a GP104 chip with the ASIC code "GP104-400-A1," surrounded by eight Micron-made GDDR5X memory chips. We know from an older article that this ASIC code denotes the top-tier GTX 1080. A second picture (recently posted) reveals a "GP104-200-A1" ASIC surrounded by conventional GDDR5 memory chips. This ASIC corresponds to the second-fastest GTX 1070.
GDDR5 and GDDR5X are nearly identical electrically, and it's quite conceivable that the GP104 chip features a memory controller that supports both standards. GDDR5 can be had at speeds of up to 8 Gbps, while GDDR5X chips can range between 10 Gbps thru 12 Gbps initially, with 14 Gbps chips planned for a little later. Besides memory, CUDA core count could be another factor that sets the two SKUs apart. NVIDIA is planning to launch a total of three SKUs based on the GP104 silicon, in June 2016, beginning with the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 in early-June (probably along the sidelines of Computex 2016), and a third SKU in mid-June.
Source:
WCCFTech
GDDR5 and GDDR5X are nearly identical electrically, and it's quite conceivable that the GP104 chip features a memory controller that supports both standards. GDDR5 can be had at speeds of up to 8 Gbps, while GDDR5X chips can range between 10 Gbps thru 12 Gbps initially, with 14 Gbps chips planned for a little later. Besides memory, CUDA core count could be another factor that sets the two SKUs apart. NVIDIA is planning to launch a total of three SKUs based on the GP104 silicon, in June 2016, beginning with the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 in early-June (probably along the sidelines of Computex 2016), and a third SKU in mid-June.
31 Comments on New GP104 ASIC Picture Hints at GTX 1080 with GDDR5X Memory
Could be a vendor specific use of GDDR5X.
GTX 1080 2048 cores
GTX 1070 1664 cores
(just a guess)
Same number of cores in 2 of 3 cases, but newer architecture, 16nm, lower power consumption, better DX12 feature support, all future driver/gameworks optimizations targeting Pascal architecture, 8GB of memory. Enough to make these cards look much better than Maxwell equivalents.
They can configure the memory however they want the GTX 970 can still do all this: www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GTX_970_Gaming/27.html
GTX 1080Ti wille be GP 100 or 102 otherwise it want be a real Ti, Could you imagine that the new TITAN with full GP100 being 30-40% faster than the "GTX 1080Ti" it would be and from the marketing point of view a suicidal choice for NVIDIA to scrap the "Ti" naming for sth like that, doing the same thing that AMD did with the FX naming to their cpu, bach in the 2005 and before the FX naming was the exact of "Extreme Edition" from intel and now is synonymous to crap
Nvidia also don't use the 1440 nomenclature because that would just be silly now, wouldn't it. You silly sausage.