NVIDIA Posts Complete Kepler GK110 Technical White Paper
 

For those of you wondering about what makes NVIDIA’s upcoming GK110 tick, NVIDIA has posed a complete architectural White Paper. There is some seriously interesting contained in there, enough to make us want GK110 to make it over into the GeForce lineup as soon as possible. However, as NVIDIA discusses quite a few times in this White Paper: GK110 is geared towards a compute / HPC environment and NOT gaming. That doesn’t mean it can’t be adapted for gaming like Fermi was though…. ;)

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On a side note.....2880 cores and supposedly 255W so well within the PCI-E spec. :shok:

Had this thing been released it would have been nearly TWICE as fast as the GTX 680. On....one....chip. Not to mention, it consumes as much as a SINGLE HD 7970.

This would make quite the F@H GPU powerhouse from my skim through:

• Since the GPU can schedule work for itself + on-board synchronization you could theoretically fold on a whole bunch of these attached to the most gimped CPU you can find and it would be fine. (Although have fun finding an Atom processor with a lot PCI-E x16 attached :haha:)
• I wonder if the Hyper-Q model would alleviate some of the GUI lag associated with Folding on a desktop computer...

I can't see the GPUDirect being too useful for individuals. I guess it fits with their proposal for GeForce GRID however as they'd essentially be able to process most of the game including AI on GPUs, maybe even sucking input straight from the network card into the GPU without involving the CPU.


I hope this stuff is made compatible with OpenCL or DirectCompute so we don't end up with the same mess as PhysX :doh:

Awww come on nVidia, do the port!

-ST

NVIDIA Reveals GK110 Specifications and Availability
 

Well, based on Legit Review's post:

LR is milking it a bit methinks.

Looking at the architecture in depth, it can be ported to GeForce but not without significant changes to its pipeline.

Seeing how there is not direct mention of any gaming application in the white paper (which I could have missed, since I did not review it in detail), LR either has a source at GTC 2012 or is simply pulling this info out of... a hidden part of their anatomy.

O..M..G... Me want!!!! :biggrin:

And its doubtful that they will never do that so...

Still would be interesting to see a card inbetween a 680 and 690.

-ST

Personally, I think we will see strict segmentation between the gaming and HPC cards from here on out. NVIDIA has finally recognized that there isn't a need for ultra high end, lower margin cards in their GeForce lineup and is keeping their high end cores for the Quadro and Tesla classes. We MAY see a GK110 derivative make its way into the gaming space at some point in 2013 but only after NVIDIA has massaged it enough that they can make it profitable enough to sell at under $999.