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Maxwell

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Guys, the lack of a Maxwell rumour thread is upsetting to say the least.

I mean, whats happened to you guys? You've changed.

So we know it will be 20nm and potentially feature its own ARM cpu? What else?
 
Who's to say :D

q1 2014?

http://videocardz.com/45403/nvidia-to-launch-more-cards-this-year-maxwell-in-q1-2014

NVIDIA will launch next series sooner than expected. I was told by one of the manufacturers that NVIDIA will release Maxwell series in early 2014. It is expected that GeForce 800 series will arrive in the first quarter of 2014, somewhere between February and March. What it basically means is that the chances for 20nm process are low. Of course NVIDIA could already have first 20nm samples sooner than that, but TSMC will not be ready for mass production till June 2014. Thus, unless my source is wrong the first Maxwell GPUs will not be made in 20nm fabrication process
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Well, the last news I heard was that the 20nm process wouldn't be ready until Q2 next year and ramping up to full scale production for Q3. So it's a little bit early to discuss rumours of a card that might not be released for another 6 months.
 
Those 6 months will fly my man! FLY!!

Perhaps they won't use the 20nm process. Who's to say. All I want is, if anyone has any thoughts, or hears any news, chuck it in here :P Considering that a over clocked 780ti is already quite a bit faster than a 780, I am expecting the 800 series to be pretty monstrous!
 
rare said:
Those 6 months will fly my man! FLY!!

Perhaps they won't use the 20nm process. Who's to say. All I want is, if anyone has any thoughts, or hears any news, chuck it in here :P Considering that a over clocked 780ti is already quite a bit faster than a 780, I am expecting the 800 series to be pretty monstrous!
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ok, I will put it another way :p There is absolutely no new information out about Maxwell at the moment. And I doubt there will be until after Christmas.

And this thread will be 30 pages down by then!! :)
 
Maxwell is going to be a monster arch imho. Nvidia will have to use raw performance to attack AMD's advantage in Mantle (If what AMD says is true) or make it Mantle compatible. Either way, the next lot of cards are going to be bonkers. New Arch, die shrink...
 
I remember the rumour mill when G80 (8800GTX) & GK100 (GTX480) was running rampage.

End result was actually a disappointment on their first generations. Who forgot the "Fermi will rule them all", and what came out was a power hungry heater? (480)

Who forgot that "8800GTX will run Crysis on max settings". Yeah, a year later when Crysis came out, even the GTX Ultra couldn't play that game on high. (had one I know).

Every time Nvidia is launching a new gen, it is always pants. Good on paper but pants. Until the second gen it out.

However this time is also different. Up to now, AMD was on the catch up game since the mighty X1950 Pro.

Now Nvidia is on the catch up game, and believe me, if Nvidia doesn't pull it good enough, their last mass sold high end GPU will be the GTX780.

If Mantle pulls it, and Nvidia decides to go with brute (expensive) force trying to keep face, they are done.


Also before you start saying "AMD fanboy", better see the facts and history, and do not act like lemmings. :)


PS If someone calls me "AMD fanboy", would reply that if all AMD fanboys were like me, then AMD could have closed since 1992 without sales.
 
Panos said:
I remember the rumour mill when G80 (8800GTX) & GK100 (GTX480) was running rampage.

End result was actually a disappointment on their first generations. Who forgot the "Fermi will rule them all", and what came out was a power hungry heater? (480)
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I remember it being fairly obvious that Fermi was going to be a let down prior to release. There were plenty of rumours about problems with yields and the excessive size of the chips.

But minus the hyperbole I agree with the rest. AMD hold an architecture advantage at the moment with a 290X more-or-less matching a 780 ti with only 85% of the transistor count. That lower transistor count translates in to more chips per wafer and lower cost per chip.

NVIDIA need to compete on efficiency as well as overall performance IMO
 
Baboonanza said:
But minus the hyperbole I agree with the rest. AMD hold an architecture advantage at the moment with a 290X more-or-less matching a 780 ti with only 85% of the transistor count. That lower transistor count translates in to more chips per wafer and lower cost per chip.

NVIDIA need to compete on efficiency as well as overall performance IMO
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How can you get it more wrong.:eek:
 
Come on Rossi that thread last saw action on the 24th November! Ive slept, a number of times, since then! ;)

Arent overclocked 780Ti's giving the 290x a good kicking?
 
Hey, I said more-or-less :). I wasn't really intending to dispute the overall maximum performance champion, simply pointing out that NVIDIA have been using more transistors than AMD to get there
 
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rare said:
Come on Rossi that thread last saw action on the 24th November! Ive slept, a number of times, since then! ;)

Arent overclocked 780Ti's giving the 290x a good kicking?
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Aren't overclocked 290X's giving a good kicking to overclocked 780Ti's ;)
 
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