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Nvidia Geforce 'Maxwell' Thread

Boomstick777 said:
NVIDIA Maxwell GM200 pictured!





http://videocardz.com/54358/nvidia-maxwell-gm200-pictured

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The die on it looks enormous, bigger than GK110.
 
KillBoY_UK said:
the 980's with "only" a 256bit bus was still very strong (and better in a lot of case @4k next to 290x's. Even in AMD led titles like Alien: Isolation or GIRD/Drit etc
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They also lose a lot of their performance at 4K, this is something you don't want to see happening with the flagship card like the Maxwell Titan.
 
Do memory chips have a standard size if so it should be possible to get very close to the actual size of the GM200 by measuring the memory chips in the pic and comparing them to the GPU to workout the size.
 
Scaling up an existing card and are probably going to charge $1000 for it!

Am I over simplifying this or isn't the silicon the cheapest part of the process? The profit margins on these must be astronomical.
 
Kaapstad said:
The one big weakness the existing Titans have v the 290X at very high resolution is the 384bit bus.

As the resolution/settings increase the 290Xs gain more.
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You'll probably find that's more to do with 48 ROPS ( Titan ) vs 64 ROPS ( 290X ) and not so much on the memory front.

If they went with a 512bit bus the die would physical have to be 25% larger as the memory controllers are located on the dies outside edge.

Think what increasing the die to that size would do to the yields and price.

You also have to remember that it'll have the delta compression ( Not memory compression :p ) that the GTX970/980 have too so it'll likely perform roughly like a 512bit card anyway.
 
almighty15 said:
You'll probably find that's more to do with 48 ROPS ( Titan ) vs 64 ROPS ( 290X ) and not so much on the memory front.

If they went with a 512bit bus the die would physical have to be 25% larger as the memory controllers are located on the dies outside edge.

Think what increasing the die to that size would do to the yields and price.

You also have to remember that it'll have the delta compression ( Not memory compression :p ) that the GTX970/980 have too so it'll likely perform roughly like a 512bit card anyway.
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You can not compare ROPs on an NVidia card to ROPs on an AMD card they are different lol.

You mentioned compression as well, remember anything NVidia can do with it AMD can also do. AMD also got there first with the 285 so it is not beyond them to do it.
 
Rossi~ said:
Looks pretty big. Also, 12GB? We sure that's not just the Quadro version only?
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Yeah, Titan X might well have 12GB though if they plan are marketing is a compute/gaming monster like previous Titan's, but GTX 980 Ti should have 6GB.

Imho we'll see Titan X in Feb and then 980 Ti in Q3/Q4.. Just like a repeat of the 6XX / Original Titan launch.
 
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