Report: Nvidia Prepping Maxwell-based 750 Ti for February
Could we see our first Maxwell card in just a few weeks?
It seems like only last month, Nvidia's Jen-Hsun Huang was talking to us about the company's desktop GPU roadmap and Maxwell from the stage at GTC. Huang revealed that Maxwell would offer UVM, or unified virtual memory, which allows the CPU and GPU to share the same memory. If you can believe it, that was nearly a year ago. Since then, Nvidia has been keeping pretty quiet when it comes to information on Maxwell, but we always have the rumor mill to keep us going, right?
The latest scuttlebutt says we could see the first Maxwell-based GPU as early as next month. SweClockers says it will be a TSMC-made GeForce GTX 750 Ti manufactured on the 28 nanometer process, and it will replace the GTX 650 Ti Boost. The card is pegged for a February 18 launch, though Nvidia isn't confirming anything. You'll notice this card is carrying the GTX 700 series branding as opposed to the much talked about GTX 800 series branding that was rumored for Maxwell. TechPowerUp reckons Nvidia might be testing the waters with Maxwell on the existing 28 nanometer process before taking things to the next level on the future 20 nanometer nodes.
We've actually been hearing about Maxwell for almost four years. Way back in 2010, when Nvidia was shipping Fermi, the company named Kepler and then Maxwell, which promised 16 times the performance in parallel graphics-based computing and the ability to work independent of the CPU, as the next stops on its GPU roadmap. Looks like the wait is almost over!
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What? The mid range ones that don't exist?
Considering the implications of a current lawsuit and Nvidia's current bank balance I can't see them going belly up any time soon but then I'm also happy to leave it to history to record events.
and their first card would be a midrange card no one with current gen would go for? sounds really week to me
and their first card would be a midrange card no one with current gen would go for? sounds really week to me
I thought it was going to have an embedded Denver processor and if so then wouldn't that share the the same memory as the GPU and not the system? And which AMD card also has a CPU on it?
I want to see how this :- " The next big feature is that Maxwell GPUs will embed a 64-bit ARM CPU core based on NVIDIA's "Project Denver." This CPU core will allow the GPU to reduce dependency on the system's main processor in certain GPGPU scenarios. Pole-vaulting the CPU's authority in certain scenarios could work to improve performance" is going to turn out.
http://www.techpowerup.com/196956/nvidia-readies-geforce-gtx-750-ti-based-on-maxwell.html
Considering the implications of a current lawsuit and Nvidia's current bank balance I can't see them going belly up any time soon but then I'm also happy to leave it to history to record events.
Hey Mouse, yeah Nvidia has a ton of Money however their avenues in the consumer market are dwindling. They wont succeed in mobile thanks to Qualcomm, Apple, Samsung. Another big blow was the loss on the professional side Mac Pros now use FirePro. Devs will now be optimizing for AMD
Nvidia will retreat from the consumer market in the coming years. Competition is very fierce
Considering the implications of a current lawsuit and Nvidia's current bank balance I can't see them going belly up any time soon but then I'm also happy to leave it to history to record events.
AMD Mullins
4.5w Quad core X86
3X CU 192 unit
GCN
K1
5W not confirmed more like 10w
Dual core ARM
Kepler 192 units
Qualcomm 805 is suppose to boost gprahics by over 40% over existing 800 series chip.
As far as HSA goes Nvidia is years behind the competition