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Nvidia have been very quiet lately?

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Except for the over priced Titan Z.

What gives? Where's the GTX 790? That should have been made more the Titan Z?


No GTX 880 news yet? Have Nv been under a rock? It's too quiet and I don't like it:(
 
GTX790 is expected soon, GTX880 unsure but IIRC the place that does the chips is finished with what they were doing and ready for AMD/Nvidia now.
 
Think Titan Z is the last hurrah for 28nm. An attempt to squeeze a bit more money from the uber enthusiast / compute crowd.

Hopefully any future cards will be on 20nm. 28nm has been around long enough. Who really wants another dual Kepler card at this point? Time to move on imho.

TSMC have almost exclusively prioritized for Apple and the creation of its 20nm SoCs early in 2014. Apparently now that is over and production of 20nm graphics cards is under way. Hopefully a Q4 2014 launch.

Bring on the 20nm !
 
They're probably very busy working with developers to ensure that upcoming games run well on the hardware that their customers already own, it's not all about having the best hardware and winning benchmarks in a handful of games.
 
Boomstick777 said:
Think Titan Z is the last hurrah for 28nm. An attempt to squeeze a bit more money from the uber enthusiast / compute crowd.

Hopefully any future cards will be on 20nm. 28nm has been around long enough. Who really wants another dual Kepler card at this point? Time to move on imho.

TSMC have almost exclusively prioritized for Apple and the creation of its 20nm SoCs early in 2014. Apparently now that is over and production of 20nm graphics cards is under way. Hopefully a Q4 2014 launch.

Bring on the 20nm !
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I hope it's 6gb or 8gb GTX 880 we see soon:D
 
WhyCryVC said:
Judging from import data GTX 880 is most likely 8GB 256b

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https://www.zauba.com/import-gm204-hs-code.html
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And hopefully moved to 20nm. Enough with 28nm tech....
 
Still seems to be a bit up in the air - as mentioned before TSMC's publications indicated that Apple had dibs on the first round of production and nVidia and Qualcomm shared the second, AMD doesn't even factor in any bulk production for this year (possible they might get smaller quantities alongside one of the "preferred" partners) though rumours abound of AMD fully going back to Globalfoundries for 20nm or even Intel renting out their production capabilities (which seems unlikely given the volume they'd have to sell to make the retooling, etc. worthwhile).

Also most sources seem to claim that nVidia's first allocation of 20nm won't be going to GPUs but SoCs, etc. instead (but AFAIK theres no hard facts to substantiate that other than nVidia moaning its not suitable for GPUs).
 
Well hopefully Jen is round UBIsofts HQ demanding to know why the **** Watch Dogs "An NVIDIA" backed game runs like **** on NVIDIA hardware!! whether you have SLI Titan Blacks or not!
 
ashmanuk67 said:
Excuse my ignorance but what is the main point in 20nm? Is it heat and power consumption.
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The smaller the chip is the less power it uses and less heat it outputs generally but this is usually negated by higher possible clocks. I'm not sure 20nm will be that big a jump over 28nm, maybe the later end 20nm GPU's will be a big leap but the first few I don't believe will be anything special.
 
Ayahuasca said:
The smaller the chip is the less power it uses and less heat it outputs generally but this is usually negated by higher possible clocks. I'm not sure 20nm will be that big a jump over 28nm, maybe the later end 20nm GPU's will be a big leap but the first few I don't believe will be anything special.
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Thanks Ayahuadca, I did read on these forums something about 14nm being the magic jump,
So if it's 20nm or 14 do they fit more transistors on them?
 
Not as clued up on the transistor stuff but I do believe you can fit more on, I'll leave that to someone else to confirm though.
 
Basically they try to stick with a manageable physical size of GPU (300mm" for example) if the transistors are produced on a smaller node you can fit more into the 300mm2 than you can if they are produced on a bigger node. As a general rule of thumb the more transistors the more powerful the GPU.
 
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