Rumor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Ti Would get GP104 ASIC
Let's call it rumor Monday today ? It looks like there will be another SKU, or let me rephrase that, there's rumor of another ASIC from NVIDIA. It would be the GP104. Earlier on we indicated the GeForce GTX 1060 to get a GP106 GPU, now there's talk about a Ti model with a GP104.
Not that would be interesting news as the GP104 is the same GPU being used for the GTX 1070 and 1080 (if they will be named like that).
NVIDIA GeForce | Possible name |
Pascal | Fab | Board | Date | |
GTX Titan X | >> | TBD | GP 100 | 16nm | Reference -> AIB | TBD |
GTX 980Ti | >> | GTX 1080 Ti | GP 104-400 | 16nm | Reference -> AIB | June/July |
GTX 980 | >> | GTX 1080 | GP 104-200 | 16nm | Reference -> AIB | June |
GTX 970 | >> | GTX 1070 | GP 104-150 | 16nm | AIB design | June |
GTX 960 (Ti) | >> | GTX 1060 Ti | GP104-150 | 16nm | AIB design | October |
GTX 960 | >> | GTX 1060 | GP 106 | 16nm | AIB design | October |
GTX 950 | >> | GTX 1050 | GP 106 | 16nm | AIB design | October |
The rectangular die of the GP104 was measured at 15.35 mm x 19.18 mm which should house (very speculative) a transistor-count of 7.4~7.9 billion. Interesting to see is that this chip is tied towards Samsung 8-gigabit GDDR5 memory chips. These ICs run an effective speed of 8 GHz (GDDR5 and thus not GDDR5X). At 256-bit you'd be looking at 256 GB/s of bandwidth. But this is likely being cut-down to 192-bit for the 1060 Ti model. The shader processor core count of the GP104 should be closer to 2,560, opposed to the 4,096 indicated from an older report.
It is ChipHell that spreads this new rumor, it could be a 6 GB memory card over a capped 192-bit GDDR5 memory bus. The GTX 1060 Ti would feature the ASIC code "GP104-150-A1." After the release of the 1070 and 1080, this one could launch in the November 2016 timeframe.
Granted, I find this new rumor HIGHLY speculative based on a lot of 'what-if's, and doesn't seem to be based on anything solid other then some hearsay.
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