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NVIDIA GK110 surfaces
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Its a £3000 professional chip.... I wouldn't hold your breath you'll be playing BF3 on it anytime soon.
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it's still going to be Q4 before it's actually released (according to the other article I posted this morning)
I would like to consider myself as a proffesional gamer but not at £3K. Was GK110 always meant for the buisness end or is this relatively new?
All tesla cards cost a lot but use the save GPUs as their gaming counterparts.
The price of the Tesla is no reflection of anything we need to concern ourselves with. The main news here is the spec of the chip.
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Looks like this will offer a solid 100% increase in performance over the 580 and possibly a lot more if games can make better use of all that shader power in the future. If its coming out at the end of the year, might consider changing my 680, but by then we will probably have the HD8000 cards coming out too.
Things should be getting pretty tasty by the end of the year.
Things should be getting pretty tasty by the end of the year.
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It'll be the next gen "780" for sure, and we won't see consumer parts until Q1 next year at least. HPC customers have been clawing at them for eons for a new high end GPGPU chip, however Nvidia cannot afford to release GK110 at present to the consumer market because of the weak offerings from AMD - putting big Kepler out would both undercut their strategy of using GK104 as their high end chip (thus killing its' sales) and also potentially end AMD as a gaming GPU business - their high end 7970 really is that far behind GK110 in gaming land as evidenced by the mid range GK104 at least keeping up, and in some instances walloping it. Despite a common conception that the name of the game is to put your competitors out of business, doing so invariably leads to antitrust lawsuits once market monopolies have been achieved. From a business perspective Nvidia actually wants to keep some degree of parity with AMD, which gives their engineers time to further R&D the next gen and maintain the dominant tech for future iterations.
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it's not going to be august, it'll be end of the year at least
gibbo has said that even the 660 (which is still based on GK104) is several months away (sept/oct) so I really wouldn't be expecting GK110 consumer cards before that
2880 shaders?! 
This truly will be a beast. I wonder, though, how high they will be able to clock. The Tesla cards tend to be clocked a little lower for increased stability, but maybe somebody somewhere will buy one and clock it. I'd be very surprised if the chip can do 1Ghz - if it can, I'd imagine we're looking at close to 300W power draw. Still, even at 800Mhz we'd be looking at around a 50% increase in shader power over the GTX680, alongside the 50% boost in memory bandwidth. It should make for quite a monster card...
This truly will be a beast. I wonder, though, how high they will be able to clock. The Tesla cards tend to be clocked a little lower for increased stability, but maybe somebody somewhere will buy one and clock it. I'd be very surprised if the chip can do 1Ghz - if it can, I'd imagine we're looking at close to 300W power draw. Still, even at 800Mhz we'd be looking at around a 50% increase in shader power over the GTX680, alongside the 50% boost in memory bandwidth. It should make for quite a monster card...
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Looks awesome, worth waiting for..