Thanks to forum member SirPauly for the link.
One of the GPU Technology Conference talks covers the new compute architecture of NVIDIA's Kepler architecture - and discloses there are a whopping 7Bn transistors inside Big Kep:
NVIDIA's enthusiast GPU, GK104, featuring approximately 3.5Bn transistors is having a hard time in production due to yeild problems, variously attributed to issues with TSMC's 28nm production process and NVIDIA's design itself. At roughly double the transistor count, will these Big Keps ever see the light of day?
Additionally, Big Kepler will have a lot more transistors dedicated to compute functions, meaning that while it's tempting to think that it'll twice the performance as GK104, it's likely the extra caches, compute hardware and memory bus reduce performance scaling in gaming applications.
Finally, it's not known if there even is a consumer variant product of Big Kep due at all (GTX 780?), or it if will remain a professional/compute product sold only under the Quadro or Telsa branding.
One of the GPU Technology Conference talks covers the new compute architecture of NVIDIA's Kepler architecture - and discloses there are a whopping 7Bn transistors inside Big Kep:
NVIDIA's enthusiast GPU, GK104, featuring approximately 3.5Bn transistors is having a hard time in production due to yeild problems, variously attributed to issues with TSMC's 28nm production process and NVIDIA's design itself. At roughly double the transistor count, will these Big Keps ever see the light of day?
Additionally, Big Kepler will have a lot more transistors dedicated to compute functions, meaning that while it's tempting to think that it'll twice the performance as GK104, it's likely the extra caches, compute hardware and memory bus reduce performance scaling in gaming applications.
Finally, it's not known if there even is a consumer variant product of Big Kep due at all (GTX 780?), or it if will remain a professional/compute product sold only under the Quadro or Telsa branding.
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