Nvidia Geforce 'Maxwell' Thread

andybird123 · 8 Jan 2014 at 15:19

AMD have just done the same thing, the 290XM is exactly the same as the 7970m, so just a marketing exercise from both camps

Silent_Scone · 8 Jan 2014 at 15:20

David Bisset said:
not that many laptops likely to use quad sli so i can't see any reason for that ram!

8GB does seem excessive for a mobile chip but when you've used the same architecture almost 3 years running you have to add something lol.

MooMoo444 · 8 Jan 2014 at 15:21

8GB VRAM is pretty sick though, I'm imagine it puts it up there with 780Ti performance, right?

TheRealDeal · 8 Jan 2014 at 15:37

MooMoo444 said:
8GB VRAM is pretty sick though, I'm imagine it puts it up there with 780Ti performance, right?

Better if you can get the game to use more than 3gb of ram

Gregster · 8 Jan 2014 at 15:40

MooMoo444 said:
8GB VRAM is pretty sick though, I'm imagine it puts it up there with 780Ti performance, right?

No. It performs more like a 680.

Rroff · 8 Jan 2014 at 15:51

While most of them will likely be GK104 I don't see it as impossible that the top end part is a lower clocked GK110 - the B stepping already gives fair improvements to heat and power efficency and there may be a new stepping again for the 790/high end mobile.

Only reason I can see for Maxwell being delayed until Q4 is if they had a change of plans and decided to implement it on 16nm hybrid.

MooMoo444 · 8 Jan 2014 at 15:54

Gregster said:
No. It performs more like a 680.

winky face man, winky face!

andybird123 · 8 Jan 2014 at 16:20

MooMoo444 said:
winky face man, winky face!

I don't want your winky anywhere near my face thank-you-very-much

Yaayuh! · 8 Jan 2014 at 16:31

Fruitbooter said:
Guys is it just the 790 that's been announced so far?

The 790 hasn't been announced has it? Just rumours.

Gregster · 8 Jan 2014 at 16:34

MooMoo444 said:
winky face man, winky face!

Meh!!! I have not long been awake, so forgive my slip

Rroff · 8 Jan 2014 at 16:40

Rossi~ said:
The 790 hasn't been announced has it? Just rumours.

They definitely have a new product launch coming, not seen anything that confirms its the 790 though. May just be the mobile stuff. (Could be maxwell but I think thats a bit optimistic).

Gregster · 12 Jan 2014 at 11:23

NVIDIA Maxwell GM117 GPU Headed For Desktop and Mobile Platforms In Q1 2014

Fudzilla was the first site to report that NVIDIA Maxwell chips were headed for launch in Q1 2014 and now they have received reports regarding the first Maxwell chip codenamed GM117 which will arrive on both desktop and mobile platforms.NVIDIA Maxwell

NVIDIA Maxwell GM117 GPU Headed For Desktop and Mobile
With Maxwell, NVIDIA seems to be taking a bottom to top approach by releasing the entry level models first and high-end graphics chips later. We still don’t have any concrete details regarding the Maxwell architecture to the process these chips would be based on but NVIDIA seems to be focusing a lot towards power efficiency with these chips on the mobile front and NVIDIA would expect some design wins with such a chip considering its low power consumption and low temperatures.
The NVIDIA Maxwell GM117 chip would be infused on both desktop and mobile platforms. For mobile, we expect that some of the recently leaked GeForce 800M series chips will introduce the Maxwell architecture while the high-end chips such as the Geforce GTX 880M is confirmed as a rebranded Geforce GTX 780M. On desktop, the same chip is expected to replace GK208 which is a Kepler based chip feature in the GT630 and GT640 OEM cards. Fudzilla also mentions the possibility of a GeForce GTX 650 successor in the works to launch in the following months.

The most interesting thing regarding Maxwell would be the Denver CPU which is possibly going to be introduced with the high-end cards. Denver CPU has already been introduced on NVIDIA’s Tegra K1 mobile chip and has been confirmed as a dual-core, 64-bit ARM v9 CPU which offloads some of the tasks from the GPU over to itself. We can expect NVIDIA to offload some of their PhysX processing which is handled by the CUDA Cores to be offloaded to the Denver CPU on the high-performance Maxwell GPUs to gain more performance and faster GPU physics processing. One thing is confirmed that Denver is ready (atleast of paper) and would find its way on Maxwell cards eventually.
It is possible that NVIDIA may unveil more information on their Maxwell core during the GTC 2014 (GPU Technology Conference) on 24th March 2014 so its going to be a pretty interesting event similar to AMD’s GPU14 where the announced their Volcanic Islands R200 series lineup. A few NVIDIA Maxwell GeForce chips have also been spotted which include engineering samples of GM108 and GM107 for notebooks which could possibly hint NVIDIA introducing their mobility lineup based on the 28nm architecture first and then introducing their high end desktop chips for both GeForce and Tesla markets.

Read more: http://wccftech.com/nvidia-maxwell-gm107/#ixzz2qBMC6eCn

Not much info that we don't already know but interesting to see that the low end GPU's will be treated to a Maxwell makeover first.

Boomstick777 · 12 Jan 2014 at 11:56

^^ Looking forward to a new build in Q4 2014/Q1 2015, based around Maxwell GPU..

Nvidia GeForce GTX 880
Intel Core i7 5820K CPU
Gigabyte X99 Motherboard
32GB DDR4

Yeah boi ..

andybird123 · 12 Jan 2014 at 12:24

I thought theyd already confirmed the 880m was a 780m rebadge?

Edit: doh, didnt read properly obviously

MichaelM · 12 Jan 2014 at 12:29

So they are going to start running some of the physx on a dedicated mobile CPU instead? And it will be faster than running it on CUDA?
Sounds backwards...

ubersonic · 12 Jan 2014 at 13:40

MichaelM said:
So they are going to start running some of the physx on a dedicated mobile CPU instead? And it will be faster than running it on CUDA?
Sounds backwards...

Their going to call it a PPU (PhysX Processing Unit) but instead of the Geforce name their going to use "Ageia"

andybird123 · 12 Jan 2014 at 14:24

whoever wrote that article has got it backwards, the denver cores on Maxwell cards are there to take some heavy lifting away from the CPU and reduce the latency in talking to the GPU, not to run physx

ah, no surprise there it is wccf tech... if you read their articles they tend to take a shotgun approach to publishing every little rumour they hear

Richdog · 13 Jan 2014 at 09:37

MjFrosty said:
http://videocardz.com/48633/nvidia-geforce-gtx-880m-rebranded-gtx-780m-8gb-memory

No Maxwell. Meaning likely no Maxwell till the previously predicted Q4

8GB VRAM though

What a crock of ****... rebranding Kepler AGAIN? Absolutely shameless. :eek:

EDIT - And I realise AMD are now also doing the same, but what drive have they got to do anything different when their main competitor isn't releasing the big guns? Unless Nvidia just know that AMD have nothing to compete with that would require them to release Maxwell to stay in the game.

Gregster · 13 Jan 2014 at 09:40

andybird123 said:
whoever wrote that article has got it backwards, the denver cores on Maxwell cards are there to take some heavy lifting away from the CPU and reduce the latency in talking to the GPU, not to run physx

ah, no surprise there it is wccf tech... if you read their articles they tend to take a shotgun approach to publishing every little rumour they hear

They are pretty shocking with knowledge but they do get snippits of good info and you just need to work around the BS and inaccuracies.

LtMatt · 13 Jan 2014 at 09:41

Interesting to see 8Gb on a laptop gpu but 3Gb on a 780TI.