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    Pascal GPUs?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by SaintFishes, Nov 5, 2014.

  1. SaintFishes

    SaintFishes Notebook Enthusiast

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    So I just recently heard about these things, and I havent been able to find much info on them, other than the initial reports dated from March 2014. Can anyone shed some light on these? What's so different about them? How much faster/better would the be compared to current generation gtx 97x and 98x GPUs? Are they still aiming for a 2016 release?


    Thanks!
     
    SaintFishes, Nov 5, 2014
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    Mobius 1 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Check back about two years later :/
     
    Mobius 1, Nov 5, 2014
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    AMD is aiming to release gpu's with HBM early next year (in February if I'm not mistaken) - so it seems they might be a year ahead of Nvidia (if they keep to their 2016 release schedule) in that field.
    :)
     
    Deks, Nov 6, 2014
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    Pascal will have stacked memory for much greater bandwidth than current GPUs.
    It will have SLI through PCIe lanes instead of SLI cables. Will reduce latency and add better scaling for greater performance

    It will most likely launch in 2016
     
    Cloudfire, Nov 6, 2014
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    Pascal i choose you :) Time for new lappy.This one will serve till 2016 :)
     
    dumitrumitu24, Nov 6, 2014
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    And AMD will have HBM (3d memory) in GPU's by February 2015 apparently.
    So.. AMD will probably come out with the technology faster.
     
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    Yup that's correct. AMD have developed HBM with Hynix so they get dibs and will be alone with it for quite a while. Although Nvidia is enjoying a market alone with Maxwell right now, AMD might regain and may even get a big boost in market share once they are out with HBM since Nvidia can't answer for quite a while until Pascal. Question is though, how much benefit will we see from it. That will be interesting :)

    AMD is already out and have been using the other feature, Crossfire through PCIe, for a long time now. XDMA its called and it scale much better than SLI.

    I was hoping for M295X was a new architecture + XDMA in those laptops. Would be first time in quite a while going back with AMD :)
     
    Cloudfire, Nov 6, 2014
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