Nvidia Geforce 'Maxwell' Thread

Kaapstad · 10 Mar 2014 at 02:13

humbug said:
do' know, i wouldn't care so much but the 750TI isn't that much more power effisiant that its similar performing AMD counterpart Bonaire. and as i alluded to AMD also have a much more power efficient system in the pipeline and on the market, just not in retail discrete GPU form yet.

They are both designing more and more power efficient systems / architectures, the way some go on its as tho Nvidia are the only ones doing anything like this. almost gleefully so, its painful if not hilarious to read.

More power efficient GPU's are welcome, and both colours are doing exactly that.

Why is the 290X on that graph twice.

stulid · 10 Mar 2014 at 02:13

Uber mode?

humbug · 10 Mar 2014 at 02:18

Kaapstad said:
Why is the 290X on that graph twice.

I was wondering that myself.

stulid said:
Uber mode?

could be...

Kaapstad · 10 Mar 2014 at 02:23

humbug said:
I was wondering that myself.

could be...

I suspect that the real figure is the bottom one (229w), when overclocked my cards can use about 350 watts each.

triss · 10 Mar 2014 at 03:20

Possibly a 290 (non X) typo??

Boomstick777 · 10 Mar 2014 at 14:58

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 800M series to be revealed at CeBIT

MSI has just announced that it is going to showcase a brand new notebooks with GeForce 800M series on board at CeBIT, which starts today.

New GeForce 800M series GPUs will be used in Dominator and Ghost gaming laptops. The same mobile graphics cards will also be used with MSI’s Nightblade gaming AIO PCs.

Seems only the GTX 860M is based on Maxwell from the leaks so far..

http://videocardz.com/49883/nvidia-geforce-gtx-800m-series-revealed-cebit

Silent_Scone · 10 Mar 2014 at 16:28

Yay?

I suppose that 8GB of VRAM would come in handy if you're displaying it externally to a 4K panel

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Dunno', all very not-all that exciting NV! Give us some proper cards

PhysicsMan94 · 10 Mar 2014 at 20:38

MjFrosty said:
Yay? I suppose that 8GB of VRAM would come in handy if you're displaying it externally to a 4K panel .

Dunno', all very not-all that exciting NV! Give us some proper cards

It's GDC 2014 and Nvidia's GPU technology conference very soon, hopefully we should get more news on the Maxwell line up - news which will probably cause fear and trembling within my wallet

Boomstick777 · 10 Mar 2014 at 21:03

MjFrosty said:
Dunno', all very not-all that exciting NV! Give us some proper cards

Yup, my body is ready. My wallet really isn't though

Rofflay · 10 Mar 2014 at 23:40

MjFrosty said:
Yay? I suppose that 8GB of VRAM would come in handy if you're displaying it externally to a 4K panel .

Dunno', all very not-all that exciting NV! Give us some proper cards

Could they not use DX 12 and the improved API to get the VRAM used like GDDR5 is used as system ram in the PS4? If they are going to make them closer then why not do that and unify them more? GDDR5 is way faster than DDR3 2400 and i guess the price is pretty similiar? I would save money on my build and skimp on 3GB of system ram as backup and put the money i saved there into 8GB of GDDR5 on a Maxwell card.

That would be roughly 4GB for the system ( BF4 uses roughly this) and 4GB left for rendering at 4K which seems about spot on. Why are we even using old ram when the PS4 can get around this with the same PC components?

jh30uk · 10 Mar 2014 at 23:49

Orangey · 11 Mar 2014 at 00:46

Rofflay said:
Could they not use DX 12 and the improved API to get the VRAM used like GDDR5 is used as system ram in the PS4? If they are going to make them closer then why not do that and unify them more? GDDR5 is way faster than DDR3 2400 and i guess the price is pretty similiar? I would save money on my build and skimp on 3GB of system ram as backup and put the money i saved there into 8GB of GDDR5 on a Maxwell card.

That would be roughly 4GB for the system ( BF4 uses roughly this) and 4GB left for rendering at 4K which seems about spot on. Why are we even using old ram when the PS4 can get around this with the same PC components?

GDDR is higher latency and more suited to GPU tasks.

Rofflay · 11 Mar 2014 at 22:39

Orangey said:
GDDR is higher latency and more suited to GPU tasks.

I never knew that i must have been confused i thought either DDR4 or GDDR5 had basically zero latency or something? How does the console get around the high latency mate?

So they have 2GB of DDR3 and 8GB of GDDR5 how are they using all that vram? And what for? Not even the PC uses that much and they game at only 1080p so there must be some benefit to it that out weighs latency perhaps?

jh30uk · 11 Mar 2014 at 22:47

GDDR is super fast bandwidth wise but it only really need to work with holding video in memory so not really cause for concern like "jack of all trades" System Memory where latency is important.

GDDR5 : 7GHZ @ 336GB/s vs DDR3 2400mhz @ 19.2GB/s

Boomstick777 · 12 Mar 2014 at 13:57

Gigabyte to launch second factory-overclocked GeForce GTX 750 TI

In addition to already released GeForce GTX 750 Ti, Gigabyte decided that their factory-overclocked model was far from what it can achieve.

For that reason Gigabyte introduces even faster GTX 750 Ti with a GPU clock up to 1215 MHz (base) and 1294 MHz (boost). This is simply what I told you about the overclocking GM107 potential even before Maxwell was released. Back then I mentioned that manufacturers will come up with 1.3 GHz cards, and this is exactly what is happening here.

http://videocardz.com/49919/gigabyte-launch-second-factory-overclocked-geforce-gtx-750-ti

Need the high end cards now lol.

Silent_Scone · 12 Mar 2014 at 15:54

GDDR5 is suited to parallel tasks on the GPU where latency doesn't really matter, as it can handle I/O on the same cycle unlike DDR3, but has super slow latencies. Speed wise it's epically faster than system ram though

Boomstick777 · 25 Mar 2014 at 00:55

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The GTC 2014 keynotes lineup includes:

Jen-Hsun Huang, NVIDIA CEO and Co-Founder (March 25)
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It's time again for NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang to open the annual GPU Tech Conference with a 2-hour keynote. The show's on from 9:00am to 10:50am.

- Preview of the new 20nm high-end Maxwell GPU architecture (GM10x/GeForce 8xx) with unified virtual memory.
- Amazing real-time graphics demos (as always).
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Yaayuh! · 9 Apr 2014 at 12:34

http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/3...014?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

It was quite logical that Nvidia would push for a 20nm transition in this year, as it turns out that the wafer economy and performance per watt will finally make sense. The 20nm process has been around for quite some time, but there is a clear difference between test production and volume production.

We expect to see 20nm Maxwell with DirectX 12 hardware support in the second half of 2014, the latter part of the year to be more specific. However, nothing is set in stone yet. We are not aware if AMD can launch its 20nm chips counterpart at the same time, as some info we gathered implies that AMD’s 20nm high end chips with full DirectX 12 hardware support might be coming in early 2015. This wouldn’t be surprising, either, as Hawaii is relatively fresh and it can easily hold its ground until 20nm Maxwell parts show up.

But you know... Fudzilla...
Still, i would be very surprised if we saw 20nm this year.

rare · 9 Apr 2014 at 13:28

Im looking at building a PC over the course of the year and I really don't want to buy another current generation card having already owned a 780. They need to get this stuff out pronto

Boomstick777 · 9 Apr 2014 at 21:19

Geforce GTX 880: Comprehensive Leak shows alleged specification of the Maxwell GPU GM204

Z. Obermaier has on the Czech website tyden.cz the alleged specifications about Nvidia's upcoming Geforce GTX 880 published. The manufactured in 20 nm Maxwell GPU should come to 7.9 billion transistors and unite 3,200 shader units together. The term "GM204" and the 256-bit memory interface only small suggest, however, that the "right" high-end Maxwell will appear later.

http://www.pcgameshardware.de/Nvidi...880-Leak-Spezifikationen-Maxwell-GPU-1116952/

7.9 Million Transistors
3200 Cores
40 ROPS
4GB DDR5
256-bit-bus
5.7 TFLOPS