Soldato
In work :'(
-
Competitor rules
Please remember that any mention of competitors, hinting at competitors or offering to provide details of competitors will result in an account suspension. The full rules can be found under the 'Terms and Rules' link in the bottom right corner of your screen. Just don't mention competitors in any way, shape or form and you'll be OK.
Blackwell gpus
- Thread starter scubes
- Start date
I was going to but realised it's all AI stuff. Twitter/news articles later on will probably be enough to cover whatever slightest hint of gaming anything that pops up.
Caporegime
No. Why do that when someone will summarise it for me here?
Man of Honour
39 mins:
Got my Twizzlers ready.
Not a euphemism.
Got my Twizzlers ready.
Not a euphemism.
Man of Honour
Jensen doesn't know left from right confirmed 
AI already used by 62% of studios, Unity report claims
AI may seem like something of a dirty word at the moment, but 62 percent of studios are using AI at some point during g…
www.eurogamer.net
He's a really bad presenter tonight isn't he, he joked about 'this is what hapens when you don't rehearse' and it's really showing.
A tonne of forced pauses for undeserved applause, nothing of much substance (that I'm looking for anyway) yet.
"New GPU go vroom, line on chart go up"
A tonne of forced pauses for undeserved applause, nothing of much substance (that I'm looking for anyway) yet.
"New GPU go vroom, line on chart go up"
Last edited:
Caporegime
- Joined
- 18 Oct 2002
- Posts
- 29,874
Glad I don't watch the ****e.
Man of Honour
My Twizzlers were more interesting.
He tries to be like Jobs in the way he presents, but he's literally a poundland grade version.
Blackwell B100/B200 specs, it's not much but all we know for now
Claimed performance:
- Custom TSMC 4NP Process Node
- Multi-Chip-Package GPU with 2 GPU Die
- 208 Billion Transistors (108b per die)
- 160 SMs (20,480 Cores)
- 192 GB HBM3e Memory with 8 TB/s Memory Bandwidth over a 8192-bit Memory Bus Interface
- PCIe 6.0 Support
- 700W peak TDP
Claimed performance:
- 20 PFLOPS FP8 (2.5x Hopper)
- 20 PFLOPS FP6 (2.5x Hopper)
- 40 PFLOPS FP4 (5.0x Hopper)
Last edited:
Man of Honour
bloke is going senile
Here is the thing though: I suspect these performance numbers are from comparing the old GPU which had one die to the new GPU with two dies and the new die has 25% more cores than the old dies. So when you attribute how much of the performance gain is from the the extra cores, it's almost all of it - Blackwell doesn't seem like it has big IPC or clock improvements, the extra performance is from the extra die and cores, and the gaming GPUs won't get the extra die and cores I'm not sure about because B100/B200 is right at the reticule limit, I.e it's expensive as hell to build
Based on this, I suspect most of Blackwell gaming GPU performance gains would come from AI stuff like new software or improvements in existing AI functions, raster performance improvements may be minimal guys
Last edited:
Soldato
So like 40 series blackwell may be another hype for AI and we'll all pay heavily for it, best get the KY jelly ready and a re-morgage organised, if you have spare organs i guess thats a path?. or as jolly Jensen would say "the more you buy the more you save"
Last edited:
Interesting thought, I'd not been able to pay attention enough to realise this.
Man of Honour
It will just be a better cooler, some faster clocks with GDDR7 memory increasing the memory bandwidth and different VRAM configuration with the 5080 now coming in with 18/21GB and the 90 class with more?
And obviously with that comes more heat from the higher TDP.
And obviously with that comes more heat from the higher TDP.