Pascal P100 over PCIe to be released Q4

[RareEntitee]

Forgive me for being naive, but nvidia announced the release of the P100 based gpu over the PCI connecter rather than the proprietary NV link.

White this may somewhat compromise it's performance, such as reducing the TDP to 250w and slightly lowering it's boost clock, it still retains the same 3560 Cuda cores and 16gb of HBM2 memory.

While I know this card isn't targeted for gaming applications, I'm curious how it would compare to the 1080 or even gp102 based cards

 

[andybird123]

it would be loads faster than a 1080, but it will be exorbitantly expensive for a gaming card as tesla cards are usually several thousand pounds each

any speculation on GP102 is total and utter guess work, but it should rival or beat a GP100 in gaming applications, whilst being considerably less expensive to manufacture (particularly as its rumoured to be based on GDDR5X rather than HBM)

 

[Orangey]

There will be both PCIe and NVLink models.

 

[JanM]

No doubt someone who has access to one will do a benchmark for gaming.
Will be good to see what it would be capable of.

 

[RareEntitee]

Drooling at the prospect, though it's boost will be relatively low compared to the oc 2000+ mhz on the 1080, the Cuda cores and HBM2 memory should more than make up for it

 

[JanM]

Just wondering if GP102 be a basic GP100 minus the 64 bit compute or will it have less cuda cores too?

I'm hoping that it would use HBM2 though.

 

[five8five]

Don't the Pro cards have their own drivers that aren't optimised for gaming?