Nvidia talks Pascal 16GB Memory at 1TB/S bandwidth

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 11/18/2015 09:47 AM | source: | 53 comment(s)

At the Japanese edition of NVIDIAs GPU Technology Conference, NVIDIA revealed some details behind its 2016 graphics architecture, codenamed Pascal.

The Pascal GPU is fabbed in the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) based on the new 16nm FinFET process, a process that uses the popular stacking method that NAND these days uses as well. It should result in significant power savings.

Pascal will bring support for up to 32GB of HBM2 memory. Initial Pascal will launch with 16GB HBM2 memoryfrom SK.Hynix and Samsung. The 16GB HBM SDRAM (packed in four stacked 4GB HBM2 chips) will offer 1TB/s in bandwidth.

"Pascal will also be available in multi-GPU packaging, replacing the Tesla K80 (NVIDIA skipped Maxwell-gen dual-GPU Tesla). Combined figures are very interesting to compare – 24GB GDDR5 and 480GB/s bandwidth should be replaced with 32GB HBM2 and 2TB/s bandwidth, mutually connected through NVLink rather than PCIe. The NVLink will enable up to 80GB/s, which should replace PLX PCIe Gen3 bridge chips that can only support 16GB/s (8GB/s per GPU). This part should be ‘warm up’ for 2018 and the Volta architecture".

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fantaskarsef
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#5191082 Posted on: 11/18/2015 10:00 AM

Very much looking forward to Volta, both for architectural changes and performance gains.

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#5191097 Posted on: 11/18/2015 10:29 AM

So...?
There's always something to look forward to. Volta will be old news by the time it is available and people have started looking forward to the next big thing.

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#5191109 Posted on: 11/18/2015 10:45 AM

Any confirmation on release date yet?

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#5191133 Posted on: 11/18/2015 11:50 AM

Very much looking forward to Volta, both for architectural changes and performance gains.

Already looking for Volta? I'd say Pascal looks promising enough and as a 4k gamer - it looks like a must-have to me.

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#5191165 Posted on: 11/18/2015 12:48 PM

16 gigs smaller card and less power usage with more performance very nice but how much will it cost and will game developers use the power because the consoles now are struggle to do 1080p and 30 fps in new titles , with pascal the gap will be massive if they dont bring out a ps5 and xbox two

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