Kepler Nvidia GeForce GTX 780

[Lanek]

I still cannot believe nVIDIA would call GK110 to a Dual GK104 card. Makes no sense. They give the name GK1xx to chips, not SKUs.

I dont say it make sense, untill they have cancelled the GK100 ... ( remember all rumors was speak about GK104-110, 107, 106 ) we have never seen anything about GK100.

dont tap the messenger, i report the article thats all.


Well for be honest, it is a nice marketing tricks: - you give a known info about 7950 launch, give a lot of strange and contradictory "infos" about the competitors, and if you look well, nobody will speak about the 7950 launch, and only about Kepler... booouh, marketing at his best.

I will be really happy to know the source.

[neliz]

My head hurts every time I see GK104 and GK110=2xGK104.

[Lanek]

lol.....

[bamtan2]

My head hurts every time I see GK104 and GK110=2xGK104.

to me, that this strange rumor exists at ALL means there is probably something to it.

my first guess is that the first generation of kepler has had such problems that nvidia dropped the highest end geforce+tesla chip. GF104/GF114 was so successful compared to the high end that this could be a fine idea. then they bring the big chip back with the first redesign/respin of kepler many months later (that rumored Q4 date above). so I can see the possibility of no giant nvidia chip for up to 12 months.

[Lanek]

It is the possibility i was open, not cause terrible problems, but cause they need maybe time to work on it, or just the 28nm process mature ( remember too the rumor about different process used ( charlie ) between Nvidia and AMD for top end ) they dont want experience again the Fermi 480 launch ( delayed and not under the best mood ). it is maybe more valuable to drop GK100, push the GK104 to GTX680 lineup.

lets imagine the GK100 will not come before 6 months, and they had plan a Kepler refresh for the end of 2012 ( the called 110-112), the question if both launch / production are too close, it is maybe better to drop the first and jump on the second, whatever they lost 3 months. Nvidia release the GTX680 with GK104SKU, and hope can push the top end with 2x GK104 dual core cards. ( similar of what AMD have done by the past with the 4870 and 4870x2 )

But all of this are pure speculation, lets not kill our day with that. This look a little bit as a bad joke, so i tend to believe this is not the case.

There may not be a GK100 (or GK102) at all. Just like there was no GF109 (as far as I am aware…).

Why will you get a GF109?, in general for nvidia the top sku is a round numbers: GF100 ( GTX480/470 Fermi gen1), then the lineup is declined from top to low, with last numbers indicate the position in this line up: 104 (460) > 106 ( 450)> 108 (430).

If we look the GK110 numbers, this one should be on the next line up.. the refresh.

[iMacmatician]

Why will you get a GF109?, in general for nvidia the top sku is a round numbers: GF100 ( GTX480/470 Fermi gen1), then the lineup is declined from top to low, with last numbers indicate the position in this line up: 104 (460) > 106 ( 450)> 108 (430).

If we look the GK110 numbers, this one should be on the next line up.. the refresh.

My point is that we can see a GT/GF/GK11x without a corresponding GT/GF/GK10x beforehand. My "GF109" example was because there was a GF119 without there being a GF109 before that (from my knowledge). Thus, we can see a GK112 without there ever being a GK102.

More generally, the lineup of third digits in a G*10x lineup may be different from the lineup of third digits in a G*11x lineup.

[AffenJack]

to me, that this strange rumor exists at ALL means there is probably something to it.

Just because a rumor exist means nothing or have you seen the XDR2 Tahitis yet?

So much different stuff floating around at the moment, i hope after 7950 Launch we'll see some facts. A architecture presentation a few days later wouldn't surprise me.

[neliz]

so I can see the possibility of no giant nvidia chip for up to 12 months.

No GK104 doesn't mean no big chips. Forget the leaked roadmaps.