Nvidia Claims Its New Chip Is the 'World's Fastest GPU' for Game and VR Design (venturebeat.com) 35
An anonymous reader shares a VentureBeat report: Nvidia announced today the Quadro P6000 graphics card for workstations, using the "world's fastest GPU." The graphics card is targeted at designers who have to create complex simulations for everything from engineering models to virtual reality games. The Quadro P6000 is based on Nvidia's new Pascal graphics architecture, and it uses a GPU with 3,840 processing cores. It can reach 12 teraflops of computing performance, or twice as fast as the previous generation. Nvidia unveiled the new platform for artists, designers, and animators at the Siggraph graphics technology conference in Anaheim, Calif. AnandTech has more details on this. From their article:As NVIDIA's impending flagship Quadro card, this is based on the just-announced GP102 GPU. The direct successor to the GM200 used in the Quadro M6000, the GP102 mixes a larger number of SMs/CUDA cores and higher clockspeeds to significantly boost performance. Paired with P6000 is 24GB of GDDR5X memory, running at a conservative 9Gbps, for a total memory bandwidth of 432GB/sec. This is the same amount of memory as in the 24GB M6000 refresh launched this spring, so there's no capacity boost at the top of NVIDIA's lineup. But for customers who didn't jump on the 24GB -- which is likely a lot of them, including most 12GB M6000 owners -- then this is a doubling (or more) of memory capacity compared to past Quadro cards. At this time the largest capacity GDDR5X memory chips we know of (8Gb), so this is as large of a capacity that P6000 can be built with at this time. Meanwhile this is so far the first and only Pascal card with GDDR5X to support ECC, with NVIDIA implementing an optional soft-ECC method for the DRAM only, just as was the case on M6000.
My chip is even faster (Score:2, Funny)
but sorry cant leave contact info here, have to make a first post on slashdot.
Crysis (Score:1)
Yes, it can run Crysis. The game came out back in 2007. Shesh.
That said, I certainly want a few of these in my work computer "for testing purposes."
That's this week's excuse, anyways.
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You're right, but the irony is the Crysis's relatively poor optimisation means that it still doesn't really run at the levels you might expect even on new hardware. And Crysis 3, of course, is only just now starting to be edged out as a go-to game for benchmarking (the current favoured games for that role seem to be The Witcher 3, Ashes of the Singularity and Assassin's Creed: Unity/Syndicate).
Totally unavailable (Score:3, Informative)
And, like literally all new GPUs this year, it will be totally unbuyable.
My brother's wanted a new GPU for months, so I told him I'd get him one. No Rx480 stock as it was sold out day one and has pretty much remained so since it launched. So I looked at the 1060, no stock available whatsoever there either. Same goes with Nvidia's 1080 and 1070, which have apparently had vastly limited quantities, even moreso than the smaller cheaper GPUs.
And of course their less available, that's how chip manufacturing works. The larger the chip's die, the more transistors that can go wrong during manufacturing, the more likely the chip is to come out as a dud. Don't expect this "world's most powerful GPU for gaming!" to actually be buyable by most anyone. Probably have to wait till next year for anything beyond the smallest new GPUs to be available in any kind of decent quantity.
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Re: Totally unavailable (Score:2)
I got a 1070 24 hours after I ordered it from Nvidia.
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Don't buy new GPUs.
Buy ones that a little behind the cutting edge, ones from a few months ago.
80% of the performance at 30% of the price.
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Buy ones that a little behind the cutting edge, ones from a few months ago. 80% of the performance at 30% of the price.
Are you trying to be funny? Even if you said years, almost two years ago I bought the GTX 970 for pretty close to MSRP of $329. If you think you can get 80% of that for 30% or <$100 today you're delusional. Don't get me wrong, today you can get roughly the same DX11 performance in a Radeon RX 480 4GB for $199 so it's lost quite a bit of value but it's not like last year's cards turn to shit anymore. A GTX 980 Ti will still kick a lot of ass simply because it's a 600mm^2 250W truck, sure there's a bigger
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I haven't purchased a card for gaming since about 2010, so I may be a bit behind the times.
Better-binned Titan X? (Score:3)
According to Anandtech [anandtech.com], the GPU is the GP102 which is the same as in the recently announced top-end consumer card "Titan X" (note: not "GTX Titan X".. confusing? yes)
The Titan X has 3584 shader processors while the Quadro P6000 has 3840 and twice the memory. I assume that this means that the Titan X has a lower-binned chip.
Previous generation of Nvidia GPUs ("Maxwell" architecture) has a GPU called GTX 980 Ti, which was a lower-binned GTX Titan X with half the memory. Now when the 10-series Titan X is already the lower-binned GPU, I suppose this means that there will not be any "GTX 1080 Ti".
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According to Anandtech [anandtech.com], the GPU is the GP102 which is the same as in the recently announced top-end consumer card "Titan X" (note: not "GTX Titan X".. confusing? yes)
The Titan X has 3584 shader processors while the Quadro P6000 has 3840 and twice the memory. I assume that this means that the Titan X has a lower-binned chip. Previous generation of Nvidia GPUs ("Maxwell" architecture) has a GPU called GTX 980 Ti, which was a lower-binned GTX Titan X with half the memory. Now when the 10-series Titan X is already the lower-binned GPU, I suppose this means that there will not be any "GTX 1080 Ti".
If there is a 1080ti, it will probably use the same GP102 from the Titan X, but with only 8GB of vRAM. Heck they might even use the GP102 from the P6000. The first Titan came out during the 700 series and the 780ti had a higher-binned GK110 than the Titan, even though the Titan had more vRAM and FP64 support, and a much higher price tag.
Honestly though, it's not all that necessary. The 1080 is a beast of a card. A 1080 ti might not be enough to justify the extra cost this generation. I'd rather they
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Once the new version of CUDA is released and my rendering software will work with it. But none do right now.
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I've heard people say all it comes down to is which driver it uses a lot of the time. Pretty expensive drivers to design I guess...
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My guess is that Anandtech got the conclusion for that one already written just substitute for this generation:
With an average performance deficit of just 3%, GeForce GTX 980 Ti is for all intents and purposes GTX Titan X with a different name. (...) With a launch price of $649, the GTX 980 Ti may as well be an unofficial price cut to GTX Titan X, delivering flagship GeForce performance for 35% less.
I expect that the GTX 1080 Ti will come in at $799/$899 (FE) in Q4 2016 or Q1 2017, this time with partner boards. And then there will be a new card with HBM2 to become the new Titan.
Re: WARNING- obsolete Pascal junk (Score:1)
Dude the new AMD Polaris just hit 2014 era benchmarks as it caught up with 9xx Nvidia technology. It is dead . Even the new 1060 low end Pascal can easily outmatch a Polaris 480x
Best drivers (Score:2)
Currently on linux, modern AMD cards have the "best-of-both-world" driver support.
Nvidia currently only produce closed-source drivers.
(Nouveau is exclusively the work of reverse engineering. Recieving nearly no support from Nvidia, except for the occasional patch to enable modesetting)
AMD provides a hybrid stack:
- they develop an kernel module (amdgpu) which is available up-stream. (i.e.: new versions of the kernel feature it out of the box).
above this, you have two choices:
- AMDGPU-Pro, the closed source d
Re: WARNING- obsolete Pascal junk (Score:2)
One Upped (Score:2)