Kepler Nvidia GeForce GTX 780

[Lanek]

Except GK110 DOES hit the server world in November at the absolute latest, at a time-frame where it still will have NO competition. Gave them plenty of time to get yields perfect before going any further with said chip, as well as time to work on power draw/heat.

Not only that, when you can sell a card that costs you LESS money to produce than your $200 part last year for $400-$500 this year AND move those in quantities, why would you do anything that ends that hustle?

At the same time they have delay all their future chips on professional market, ( including Kepler intially )... Maxwell ( 2014 ).. November is not an hasard. I dont think Nvidia push back their prevision, just cause they can compet with lower chips in the gamer segment.... They could release thoses cards for professional, and just release GK104 for gamers...

What do you think? they was affraid gamers will buy a GK100-110 Tesla at 4000$ ?

I will not be so sure, they will not have any competition when releasing the K20 Tesla. The Tesla K20 is annunced to get a 1.5Tflops DP theorical peak at 1/3 rate. The AMD 7970 have 1 Tflops DP allready at 1/4 rate .... 1.5Tflops DP at 1/3 = 4.5Tflops SP.... And we are speaking about the GK110 .. we have no idea what was the initial GK100 who have been it seems completely lost somewhere between august to december 2011... ( If the AMD 7970 was set at 1/3 rate, they will allready hit 1.33Tflops DP ( pure theory as i absolutely dont know if AMD can do 1/3 ).

Vs Intel, the problem is even more different, the Xeon-Phi x86 is not totally comparable of GPU's...

Computing is totally something aside anyway, we can base ourself on a simple series, betwen AMD HSA who try to build something who will not take place before 2014 maybe, Intel and his Xeon-Phy who will be an entry but not the last evolution of it.. this take time and the work to do is not based on a series, but in a long process of evolution.