First Images of Nvidia GK104 Kepler Card Leaked Online
The first images of Nvidia's new GPU may have made it out of labs and up on two hardware websites.
Chiphell and Expreview published what apparently is a GK104-based card. What we gather from these pictures is that Kepler cards could be huge with potentially high power consumption. About a month ago, we published the full list of Kepler cards ranging from the GTX640 to the GTX690.
Industry rumors suggest that Nvidia is still affected by yield issues as 28 nm output is not where the company would like it to be. However, Nvidia counts on the success of the new technology and recently said during the Q4 earnings call that it expects PC gaming demand to be driven by its "Kepler architecture and new hit games, such as Mass Effect 3 and Diablo III." The company believes that Kepler is strong enough to help Nvidia gain share in the discrete GPU business overall, at the architecture is also lined up for use in supercomputers.
According to reports, the 290 mm2 GK104 chip shown in the pictures will be used in GTX650Ti and GTX 660 graphics cards, which will arrive with 448 and 512 activated stream processors, respectively, as well as a core clock of about 850 and 900 MHz. The first Kepler cards are expected to be announced next month.
Nvidia needs to stop slacking and bring their chips out or show us some performance numbers.
Expects PC gaming to be driven by a console port that can be maxed out on a $150 graphics card? Yeah, right.
Nvidia needs to stop slacking and bring their chips out or show us some performance numbers.
I seriously LOL to this. Thumbs up
They should just package them with their own power supply, they gonna need it compared to AMD's cards.
Expects PC gaming to be driven by a console port that can be maxed out on a $150 graphics card? Yeah, right.
http://semiaccurate.com/2012/03/05/nvidia-will-launch-gk104keplergtx680-in-a-week/
http://chinese.vr-zone.com/11480/nvidia-gtx-680-gk-104-final-03062012/
if you dont speak chinese here's that site translated:
Pointed out that according to earlier news, NVIDIA will be held in March 12 published a technical 28nm process Kepler, GK 104, that is, the rumors of GTX 680 will be listed for sale on the 23rd.
Specifications section, we have received reliable news that NVIDIA GTX, 680 will have 1536 CUDA cores, graphics clock of 705MHz, the processor clock 1411MHz, the memory part of the persistent use of GDDR5, the capacity part 2048MB, clock part for 3004MHz (6008 data rate) memory interface width is 256-bit.
From the current specifications, it seems difficult to find the GK104 Kepler, the specification is very close to fact, the Radeon HD 7 870.
Whether the timetable for the listing as described above, we can not verify.
Transferred to the mobile device NVIDIA graphics card market, whether it is beautiful victory in this battle for 28nm process?
umm... this runs counter to all the recent news I've heard.
http://vr-zone.com/articles/nvidia-geforce-gtx-680-specifications-revealed/15137.html
shinobi has said this in the past, and people need to stop thinking that slight die shrinks will drastically change how well the card/chip will run.
Oh God no please don't be a repeat of the first-gen Fermis...