NVIDIA "Pascal" GP104 Silicon Pictured

[btarunr]

A picture of NVIDIA's next performance-segment GPU based on the upcoming "Pascal" architecture, the GP104, was leaked to the web, revealing a heap of raw material to speculate from. To begin with, GP104 retains the traditional component layout of a simple GPU die sitting on a conventional fiberglass substrate package, with memory chips surrounding it. NVIDIA is reserving exotic specs such as stacked HBM2 memory for the high-end GP100 silicon.

Some fairly straightforward trignometry reveals that the rectangular die of the GP104 measures 15.35 mm x 19.18 mm, with one source speculating a transistor-count of 7.4-7.9 billion. The card is expected to feature 8 gigabit GDDR5 memory chips, which tick at 8 GHz (GDDR5-effective). If the memory bus width is 256-bit, then you're looking at a memory bandwidth of 256 GB/s. The CUDA core count of the GP104 could be closer to 2,560, than the 4,096 from an older report.



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[john_]

Do you put thermal paste on it's eyes?

 

[Ferrum Master]

What kind of rubbish is this? It already carries a CE mark... and it uses plain old simple K4G80325FB ie gDDR5... same as in PS4...

 

[HumanSmoke]

What kind of rubbish is this? It already carries a CE mark... and it uses plain old simple K4G80325FB ie gDDR5... same as in PS4...

What were you expecting? GDDR5X is at least 2-4 months away from series production, and I doubt a second-tier GPU warrants using and diverting HBM2 from GP100 - both due to manufacturing cost and priority being given to GP100. I'll go out on a limb and say that the company is looking at a better return pouring their resources into $129,000 DGX-1 systems and the 4,500 Pascal Tesla's earmarked for Piz Daint's upgrade and Cobalt among others.

 

[HisDivineOrder]

Do you put thermal paste on it's eyes?

They wait till it's sleeping. Then they seal up its eyes and smother it with a metal cooler. Yes, all our video cards are in reality soul amplifiers that run on the power of trapped kitty souls.

 

[Ferrum Master]

4,500 Pascal Tesla's earmarked for Piz Daint's upgrade and Cobalt among others.

That explains the CE logo. Okay that's clear now.

 

[Vayra86]

Inb4 we see another GPU release that brings nothing to the table except what can be expected.

+30%. That's all folks.