Monday, September 21st 2015
NVIDIA GP100 Silicon Moves to Testing Phase
NVIDIA's next-generation flagship graphics processor, codenamed "GP100," has reportedly graduated to testing phase. That is when a limited batch of completed chips are sent from the foundry partner to NVIDIA for testing and evaluation. The chips tripped speed-traps on changeover airports, on their way to NVIDIA. 3DCenter.org predicts that the GP100, based on the company's "Pascal" GPU architecture, will feature no less than 17 billion transistors, and will be built on the 16 nm FinFET+ node at TSMC. The GP100 will feature an HBM2 memory interface. HBM2 allows you to cram up to 32 GB of memory. The flagship product based on GP100 could feature about 16 GB of memory. NVIDIA's design goal could be to squeeze out anywhere between 60-90% higher performance than the current-generation flagship GTX TITAN-X.
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3DCenter.org
65 Comments on NVIDIA GP100 Silicon Moves to Testing Phase
1) HBM2 controller is backwards compatible with HBM and they'll use HBM for testing the Pascal silicon.
2) NVIDIA is shipping the prototype elsewhere for developing and testing the interposer. HBM2 doesn't need to be available yet to accomplish that.
3) NVIDIA got their hands on HBM2 prototype chips.
Edit: to make it a little bit clearer:
Incinuating both (SK Hynix & Samsung) were to supply the HBM1 memory to AMD & Nvidia, SK Hynix being able to supply it first before Samsung but both supplying HBM1.
Then again it might simply be a translation error or typo that changed the intended message. I guess we will find out in due course.
I know AMD is working on it but if production of HBM2 does start in q1, would that chip be ready in ~6-7months in a product to ship? Nvidia was pretty clear to be skipping HBM1, which looking at how limited stock of fury cards have been was a good idea else stock would been even more limited.
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hbm brings nothing xD
that is comedy gold, when all cards are hbm i will quote that for you xD
For any current or previous generations of cards? No.
Hawaii with GDDR5 isn't appreciably behind Fiji with HBM as a general rule (and I suspect the difference will be smaller with DX12). The GPUs - especially in consumer (gaming) applications just aren't bandwidth constrained in the vast majority of usage scenarios. With a smaller manufacturing process allowing a jump in GPU performance via increased throughput the wider interface will begin to show its strengths, but you wont be seeing HBM allied with a mainstream card for a while.
But yeah, between the constant AMD circlejerk (if you have a long enough memory, you know full well AMD is just as bad as Intel/nVidia when they're in the lead), misinformation, lack of understanding (both technical and marketing, especially in cases like the 970), endless leaks and overhyped everything... the average "modern" gamer is a hyperexcited idiot...