NVIDIA partners halt GeForce GTX 970, 980, 980Ti production and GPU Pascal codenames surface

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 04/13/2016 09:25 AM | source: | 31 comment(s)

In anticipation of upcoming Pascal products in the coming month or two, at least that's what hwbattle is reporting this morning. As we get closer to the actual launch more and more tiny little details surface, combined bringing a bigger picture.

Can you smell it in the air ? :sniff::sniff: - yeah that's the smell of 16nm GPUs coming closer and closer.

It looks like that Nvidia will indeed name the upcoming GTX series the GeForce GXT 1070, 1080 and as it seems now perhaps even a 1080 Ti. The GPU naming now surfaced as well. Logic however would assume a Ti release later in the year opposed to everything being released at once in the summer.

Equivalent to GTX 980 Ti will use a GP 104-400 GPU
Equivalent to GTX 980 will use a GP 104-200 GPU
Equivalent to GTX 970 will use a GP 104-150 GPU

As you can see that still leaves open GP100 (big pascal) for later in the year with likely a Titan based naming, ...

Maxwell		Pascal	Board	Date
NVIDIA Geforce GTX 980Ti	>>	GP 104-400	Reference -> AIB	early June
NVIDIA Geforce GTX 980	>>	GP 104-200	Reference -> AIB	early June
NVIDIA Geforce GTX 970	>>	GP 104-150	AIB design	mid June

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Fox2232
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#5258020 Posted on: 04/14/2016 11:52 AM

So did the GTX 980 Ti already got obsolete since I have one in my PC , and will I already need to sell it for Pascal ?

No, It definitely will not be obsolete. We are just spoiled brats.

I actually think that 14/16nm (at least 1st generation of GPUs) will bring GPU performance closer to upper edge.

You, as well as great many people around this forum have GPU which costs around same as average Gaming PC/notebook.

If I have not seen steam stats about screens people use, about vRAM people use. I would not have guessed that average gaming screen has resolution around 1600x900 and GPU driving it has only 1GB(33.9%) ~ 2GB(25.6%) of vRAM. And then there are 13.9% of people having less than 1GB vRAM on steam stats. You can guess graphical performance from those GPUs yourself

I have high hopes that 14/16nm will bring higher clocked, smaller GPUs in lower costs to both desktops and notebooks. And that higher performance per $ (and Watt) on those small chips will push great many people to upgrade from 1GB of vRAM and lower to at least 2GB and appropriate performance.

I am sure you can drive most of games at 4k at around 60fps with minimal sacrifice. And that 1440p, you can play perfectly anything. (Yes, not at 144fps, but still well above 60fps. And that seems to be game makers' target for 1080p.)

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#5258035 Posted on: 04/14/2016 12:17 PM

Its wccftech, but fwiw...

Nvidia Launching Pascal Based Geforce Lineup At Editors’ Event – Reviews Expected to Go Live By Mid-May...

http://*************/nvidia-launch-pascal-editors-event-may/

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#5258141 Posted on: 04/14/2016 04:29 PM

Somehow I'm not sure the Ti will be based on the GP104. Because it would make the '80' card a cut down chip... does that work with production costs?

Just as a guess, the GP100 ('Titan') has 3840 shader processors, I guess the GP104-400 (biggest one, 'x80 Ti') will have something close to ~3000 shaders. GP104-200 ('x80') will be cut down to ~2500 shaders then? But does it make much sense to have the 'x80' as a cut down chip? It would mean that even the GP104-150 ('x70') would be a full GP104 chip in production, then laster cut? Wouldn't that mean that it unessecarily increased the 'x80's / 'x70's chip production cost?

I thought the 980Ti would only make sense because it was a cut down TitanX, making some use of faulty chips they can't put onto the top tier gaming cards / low rank professional cards.

Or am I seeing it all wrong, or doesn't it make much difference in production costs?

Consumer GP100 has approximately 0% chance of happening this year.

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#5258204 Posted on: 04/14/2016 06:13 PM

Its wccftech, but fwiw...

Nvidia Launching Pascal Based Geforce Lineup At Editors’ Event – Reviews Expected to Go Live By Mid-May...

http://*************/nvidia-launch-pascal-editors-event-may/

link:

edit - we can't link to this site? :p fake? :p

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#5258210 Posted on: 04/14/2016 06:25 PM

I'm hoping for something to take over from the 980 Ti. 104/204 etc. just isn't my cup of tea. When I buy a new computer I want the real deal, not what's in the middle. Hopefully the 100 will come out as a pure gaming card as well, the Titan cards are overpriced and a bit silly for gaming compared to say the 980 Ti.

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