Nvidia announce Volta

Broken Hope · 19 Mar 2013 at 18:52

So the next GPU after Maxwell is going to be called Volta, stacked DRAM with up to 1TB/s bandwidth.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6842/nvidias-gpu-technology-conference-2013-keynote-live-blog

spoffle · 19 Mar 2013 at 18:54

Stacked RAM looks pretty cool and interesting.

Suarez7 · 19 Mar 2013 at 18:55

NVIDIA FTW :cool:

Zenduri · 19 Mar 2013 at 18:59

£4000 for lower end cards now doubt

Suarez7 · 19 Mar 2013 at 19:01

HybridX said:
£4000 for lower end cards now doubt

Diagro · 19 Mar 2013 at 19:06

Interesting. Sounds like a good card.

Rroff · 19 Mar 2013 at 19:10

Also some info on Denver for those who were asking about it recently tho not as much as I thought there was going to be.

PorkPieCat · 19 Mar 2013 at 19:11

that sounds really cool but isn't stacked dram more or less a concept? with some prototypes at best, let alone a standard? seems preemptive to announce something so revolutionary in a product that's only a few years away. though again, if it happens then awesooome

TheRealDeal · 19 Mar 2013 at 19:14

PorkPieCat said:
that sounds really cool but isn't stacked dram more or less a concept? with some prototypes at best, let alone a standard? seems preemptive to announce something so revolutionary in a product that's only a few years away. though again, if it happens then awesooome

A few years. I would say 3-4 years judging by how slow things seem to be moving forward. We are talking the end of the year for gtx780 which is supposed to be a kepler refresh. Could be a year after that for maxwell and maybe as long as 2 years for volta.

panyan · 19 Mar 2013 at 19:42

so will this be like a normal graphics card pcb with double stacked vram?

or will it be something more complex within the die?

PorkPieCat · 19 Mar 2013 at 19:46

panyan said:
so will this be like a normal graphics card pcb with double stacked vram?

or will it be something more complex within the die?

it's quite cool, intel and micron are working on putting stacks of ram chips onto the die to potentially wipe out ram bottlenecks for a good while to come. if that goes into volta it will be ram on the die, not the pcb.

Gregster · 19 Mar 2013 at 19:47

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/119843-the-future-of-computers-3d-chip-stacking

Worth a read if you have a spare couple of mins

PorkPieCat · 19 Mar 2013 at 20:07

Gregster said:
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/119843-the-future-of-computers-3d-chip-stacking

Worth a read if you have a spare couple of mins

that was actually really interesting. thanks!

Broken Hope · 19 Mar 2013 at 20:18

The Playstation Vita already uses a form of chip stacking.

http://chipworksrealchips.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/sonys-ps-vita-uses-chip-on-chip-sip-3d.html

Orangey · 19 Mar 2013 at 23:15

I learned yesterday that I have the same birthday as Mr Huang. Caused me to read an article about his life story and that he worked for AMD in the K6-II days.

...anyway, carry on.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 19 Mar 2013 at 23:39

Haswell GT3E uses stacked DRAM,and the PS4 appears to use stacked DRAM too(Sony and AMD are working with Amkor).

esoteric · 20 Mar 2013 at 02:01

Volta sounds cool and all, but I want details on the 700 series and when I can buy 1.

kedge · 20 Mar 2013 at 09:09

Suarez7 said:
NVIDIA FTW

Nice cards but nvidia's prices are sometimes FTL

HybridX said:
£4000 for lower end cards nw doubt

I doubt that price for a gamer card but no doubt they will stack the odds against most pc gamers budget

d_brennen · 20 Mar 2013 at 09:17

If anything, once kinks are worked out, stacking memory will reduce PCB complexity and component count, which could lead to lower pricing, early adopter tax notwithstanding.

There's just the minor issue of sacking delicate DRAM on top of 300w GPU dies

WingZero30 · 20 Mar 2013 at 09:55

Would Volta form the backbone of GTX 900/1000 series ?? :cool: