Nvidia Reveals Next-Generation "Pascal" GPU for 2016

[exfileme]

Pascal will use 3D packaging and a new tech called NVLink.

Nvidia Reveals Next-Generation "Pascal" GPU for 2016 : Read more

 

[HiTechObsessed]

They need to announce the release of Maxwell GPUs before announcing the next-next generation graphics cards lol

 

[StarBound]

I'm getting a 780ti this week. Will I replace my card before the end of the year then?

 

[Jack Revenant]

I'd wager that this will be a real success for Nvidia.

 

[warezme]

what the heck? There isn't even a decent Maxwell desktop GPU out yet and we have a fancy Pascal outing already?

 

[spartanmk2]

Whats AMD's solution to this?

 

[CaptainTom]

Whats AMD's solution to this?

A card that is 5% weaker and half the price...

 

[bemused_fred]

Whats AMD's solution to this?

A card that is 5% weaker and half the price...

And what are the bitcoin miner's answer to that?Yep, you guessed it. Thanks Obam-uh, Bitcoin.

 

[ferooxidan]

Please Tom, out with GTX Titan Z preview and review already!

 

[Gin Fushicho]

Whats AMD's solution to this?

A card that is 5% weaker and half the price...

And what are the bitcoin miner's answer to that?Yep, you guessed it. Thanks Obam-uh, Bitcoin.

Scrypt-coin.... not Bitcoin. Nobody mines Bitcoins with GPU's.

 

[dark_knight33]

[And what are the bitcoin miner's answer to that?Yep, you guessed it. Blah, blah, blah.

Seriously...? Stupidest comment I've read all week.

 

[danwat1234]

So.. cancer will be cured by 2017 or so thanks to these GPUs? Maybe

 

[renz496]

what the heck? There isn't even a decent Maxwell desktop GPU out yet and we have a fancy Pascal outing already?

nothing new. we know there will be maxwell (in name only) since fermi.

 

[10tacle]

nothing new. we know there will be maxwell (in name only) since fermi.

True, Nvidia has always shown us two or three generations ahead on a map of the future. But I don't ever remember them giving this much technical detail before in a product two generations away from the current one.

 

[The_Icon]

With so much processing power, GPUs should take part in more CPU tasks instead of sitting idly.

 

[schnitter]

Have a 680 GTX, not interested in any video card until DirectX 12 comes out. Useless to spend money on top-end now when DirectX 12 is around the corner.

 

[renz496]

nothing new. we know there will be maxwell (in name only) since fermi.

True, Nvidia has always shown us two or three generations ahead on a map of the future. But I don't ever remember them giving this much technical detail before in a product two generations away from the current one.

i think nvidia are trying to win more contract in the future that's why they are talking stuff that will not coming 2 years later right now. they need to convince those company why choosing nvidia is the right choice. nvidia used to dominate the HPC stuff with their Tesla but now they got more competition from AMD and Intel (Xeon Phi) in that space. releasing a bit of info about upcoming architecture could be one of their strategy

 

[Christopher Sellard]

Have a 680 GTX, not interested in any video card until DirectX 12 comes out. Useless to spend money on top-end now when DirectX 12 is around the corner.

um dx 12 is coming to older generation cards that currently have dx 11

 

[tomfreak]

let me guess, future motherboard instead of having SLI capable, they will have a Nvlink capable as a "feature"?

 

[thor220]

It would be allot easier to convince mobo manufacturers to use your new proprietary NLink interface if say it was beneficial to them. In Nvidia's case, they expect the mobo manufacturers to hop for them on some niche product that will cost more to add onto motherboards. You can't have your cake and eat it too Nvidia. If you want mobos to use the new interface, you have to open it up to AMD and Intel. It's just not economical for them to accept it as a standard.

 

[renz496]

It would be allot easier to convince mobo manufacturers to use your new proprietary NLink interface if say it was beneficial to them. In Nvidia's case, they expect the mobo manufacturers to hop for them on some niche product that will cost more to add onto motherboards. You can't have your cake and eat it too Nvidia. If you want mobos to use the new interface, you have to open it up to AMD and Intel. It's just not economical for them to accept it as a standard.

from what i understand this NVLink is for HPC and server stuff only although there are possibility for nvidia to incorporate this tech into their SLI technology. maybe they can make something similar to NF200 chipset.

NVLink was created chiefly for use in supercomputing clusters and other enterprise-class deployments where many GPUs may be installed into a single server. Interestingly, as part of today's announcements, IBM revealed that it will incorporate NVLink into future CPUs. We don't have any details yet about which CPUs or what proportion of the Power CPU lineup will use NVLink, though.

http://techreport.com/news/26226/nvidia-pascal-to-use-stacked-memory-proprietary-nvlink-interconnect

EDIT: from anandtech article it seems NVLink will ditch PCI/PCIE slot altogether and will have it's own connector. so i don't think we are going to see NVLink on regular dekstop mobo.

But the rabbit hole goes deeper. To pull off the kind of transfer rates NVIDIA wants to accomplish, the traditional PCI/PCIe style edge connector is no good; if nothing else the lengths that can be supported by such a fast bus are too short. So NVLink will be ditching the slot in favor of what NVIDIA is labeling a mezzanine connector, the type of connector typically used to sandwich multiple PCBs together (think GTX 295).

With all of that said, while NVIDIA has grand plans for NVLink, it’s also clear that PCIe isn’t going to be completely replaced anytime soon on a large scale. NVIDIA will still support PCIe – in fact the blocks can talk PCIe or NVLink – and even in NVLink setups there are certain command and control communiques that must be sent through PCIe rather than NVLink. The best case scenario for NVLink right now is that it takes hold in servers, while workstations and consumers would continue to use PCIe as they do today.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7900/nvidia-updates-gpu-roadmap-unveils-pascal-architecture-for-2016

 

[wiinippongamer]

Huang lookin thick, solid, tight.

 

[sarinaide]

AMD's response is a T14 Hyperdrive system

 

[Jack Bauer]

Wasn't Volta that should have been after Maxwell ?

 

[Mousemonkey]

Wasn't Volta that should have been after Maxwell ?

It was but they have either dropped it or moved it, I read somewhere that they have just moved it but that may change.