What is GK110?

[bhavv]

GK110 is another gpu from nivida that's made on 28nm and has a big core die. That's all that's know. Some ppl say that the manufacturing such a big die on 28nm is so bad we might only see GK110 in limited numbers as a Tesla card and not a consumer gpu.

There is no suggesting that this was the real 680 GTX because it's rumoured to be out in 2013.

With Nvidia, when there's a 110, there's also an earlier castrated 100. They use the nomenclature of 100-109 for their tick, and then 110-119 for their tock of the same architecture.

The GK110 is the tock of Nvidias 28 nm Keller range, the GTX 680 was originally planned as the tick of this GPU, but they have now scrapped the high end tock card for many reasons:

GK104, originally GTX 670 Ti beat the 7970.

The GK100 tick card wouldn't have been ready for several more months.

Naming the GK104 as GTX 670 ti would leave a lot of customers waiting for GTX 680 and not purchasing GK104

GK104 is significantly more profitable at its current price point than the GK100 tick would have been.

Abandoning the high end tick card now gives Nvidia more time and resources to put into developing the GK110 tock. This card was originally due for early 2013, but the latest information on Nvidias timelines now show it as planned for Q4 2012.

 

[bru]

Not wanting to sidetrack the thread too much, but I do find it funny that the 680 is said to be only 15% faster than the 580 and yet it is neck and neck with the 7970 which some people will tell you is 30%+ faster than the 580.

Anyway I expect the GK110 to be a similar amount ahead of the 680 as the 580 is to the 560ti.

 

[555BUK]

but its just "rumours"...

Before the 680 was released the rumoured benchmarks showing 100% increase over the 580 lol.. i mean come on.

When it finally came on the shelf's people noticed it was only 13-14% so i wouldn't be surprised if the GK110 shows a 15% increase over the 680..

We can only wait and see.. Most of what is out there at the moment though is just hot air

GK104 was not built to be the GTX680. It was almost certainly built to be the GTX560TI replacement because it has similar die size and memory bus. GK104 offers close to 100% performance gains over GF104/114 (the GTX460 & 560), so it is indeed possible that the true GTX680 part (which will now likely be called GTX780) will also be 100% faster. GK110 was supposed to be the new GTX680. Fortunately for NVidia, AMD's higher spec / higher cost 7900's underperformed and that has allowed them to give the mid-high end card an ultra-high end name tag.

GK104 was never built to be a GTX680. It just worked out that way. The true GTX680 part will be here within 6 months. This is the balance of probablility given leaks, NVidia's roadmap, known specs and performance of GK104.