Sunday, November 6th 2011
New 28 nm Graphics Cards To Be 45 Percent Faster And Overclock Like Never Before?
The next generation NVIDIA and AMD GPU's are going to be built on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) brand new 28 nm process, which may offer a 45% speed boost to these new products. Smaller geometries usually mean that a processor will use less power and can be made smaller, faster and more cheaply than previously. It's good news then that TSMC reports that the new process is ready for mass production and is running very well indeed. So well in fact, that unnamed sources within TSMC claim the new 28 nm process allows for a 45% increase in clock speed over the current 40 nm process. Put this together with improved GPU architectures and the next generation of graphics cards could be wickedly fast, something every enthusiast likes to see. However, it appears that NVIDIA and AMD may go for a blend of performance and power usage, rather than outright performance, since power use of modern graphics cards is already hitting limits of acceptability. So, does this mean that these new cards will overclock like never before? We will have to wait and see. AMD's cards should be out around the new year and NVIDIA's a couple of months later.
Head on over to DailyTech for a lot more detail on this.
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DailyTech
Head on over to DailyTech for a lot more detail on this.
64 Comments on New 28 nm Graphics Cards To Be 45 Percent Faster And Overclock Like Never Before?
Although i hope it turns out better thsn they think it will do so i have a excuse to get a new GPU because i'll need it for da wife lol.
Of course they will "spread their shit for them" as more sells = more profit for them too
The 45% figure seems exagerated, and it probably is, but 25% or some more seems reasonable. Now where's my 1200 Mhz (stock) GPU?
So maybe i should of just said I will believe it when i see it.
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it has extra BW too, but the main thing is latency/ like imagine etherent with 2% overhead.. WOW that would be an almost 100% gain in speed.
Not as much on pcie but still impressive, and it leads to WAY more than gfx. It spells well for all kinds of devices.
The main point of the write-up centers around "This speed improvement is based on the same leakage per gate". TSMCs' High-k Metal Gate (HKMG) and that it supports up to a 45 percent clock speed improvement over the firm's own 40G process used to make the last two generations of video cards.
Why is the supplier of this; their brand new 28 nm process talking about this? It’s like an OEM contract manufacture for Toyota or Honda, saying our new window regulator could do this and this. Does it matter..? Not really not until the customer spec’s their actual requirements. I see this as a case of we feel we got are crap right this time, and we don’t intend to be the fall guy (a second time) for blunder in the customer’s architecture.
The rest of the DailyTech’s write-up was fluff, while the cut-down synopsis here just watered it down more.
The Tahiti purportedly supports both Graphics Core Next (GCN) and XDR2 memory, and was said to be out end of 2011. I deem its’ been pushed back as AMD seeing Kepler being Q2 would rather hold out and tweak it more as it learns more on the competition. Although, it will release the first 28Nm graphics card in 2011; and it appears to be on the VLIW4 architecture released with Cayman. The question... is more transistors and TSMC new HKMG gates really going to boost performance and improve efficiency?
I'm thinking Tahiti is probably more end of January-February 2012.
nvidia and AMD would kill future profits to make the best card for the next 5 years right now, what would they improve on the next few years, you have to offer something up gradable every year or your run out of buisness and sit idle.