Wednesday, May 23rd 2018
NVIDIA GeForce "Volta" Graphics Cards to Feature GDDR6 Memory According to SK Hynix Deal
NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce GTX graphics cards based on the "Volta" architecture, could feature GDDR6 memory, according to a supply deal SK Hynix struck with NVIDIA, resulting in the Korean memory manufacturer's stock price surging by 6 percent. It's not known if GDDR6 will be deployed on all SKUs, or if like GDDR5X, it will be exclusive to a handful high-end SKUs. The latest version of SK Hynix memory catalogue points to an 8 Gb (1 GB) GDDR6 memory chip supporting speeds of up to 14 Gbps at 1.35V, and up to 12 Gbps at 1.25V.
Considering NVIDIA already got GDDR5X to run at 11 Gbps, it could choose the faster option. Memory remains a cause for concern. If 8 Gb is the densest chip from SK Hynix, then the fabled "GV104" (GP104-successor), which could likely feature a 256-bit wide memory interface, will only feature up to 8 GB of memory, precluding the unlikely (and costly) option of piggy-backing chips to achieve 16 GB.
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Considering NVIDIA already got GDDR5X to run at 11 Gbps, it could choose the faster option. Memory remains a cause for concern. If 8 Gb is the densest chip from SK Hynix, then the fabled "GV104" (GP104-successor), which could likely feature a 256-bit wide memory interface, will only feature up to 8 GB of memory, precluding the unlikely (and costly) option of piggy-backing chips to achieve 16 GB.
55 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce "Volta" Graphics Cards to Feature GDDR6 Memory According to SK Hynix Deal
It's cool, since the memory is not the performace bottlenecker anymore.
its 100% 11 series too
literally every site thinks its turing based on nexus nothing else.
It really throttles the Titan Volta and even OCing the HBM2 by 25% to 30% is not enough.
Having said that GDDR6 for gaming may be more suitable than HBM2
If anything, the higher resolution should hurt a memory starved chip. Just like how HBM helped Fury X at higher resolution, when it stumbled at 1080p.
Saying Titan V is throttled by its memory requires some significant analytical proof (given it uses HBM2).
Yes the Titan V does pull away at 2160p but that does not mean that the memory is not throttling it.
The Titan V is a brute of a card for performance in gaming but it would benefit from faster memory.
Ultimately HBM will be the answer but it will most likely be version 4 or 5 where the clockspeed is high enough to keep up with fps.
but 12GB/16GB @14GHz should be fine.
It's out there, but it's not.
Einstein ?
Planck ?
Tesla = G80/GT200
I expect AMD to massively improve in gaming performance (like it could get worse? :) vega56 is the only great card in their entire lineup with hardware vs cost vs performance (MSRP!!!))
If so life won't be so bad, competition reduces prices :)
GDDR6 just isn't a good enough improvement and they have to increase width to make up for it which drives up the cost and then we're not getting bang for our buck.
By raw bandwidth next gen. ti/titan with 384bit gddr6 bus will have more(16*384/8 = 768 GB/s vs Titan V:s 653 GB/s). But yeah brink of 7nm I wonder what are nvidia's plans. I.E. do they make only gv104 with 12nm and release it now(summer) and shrink it to 7nm call it Turing/Ampere 6-9 months later with full release from low to high end(GX108, GX107, GX106, GX104, GX102, X= A or T).