The next generation NVIDIA and AMD GPU's are going to be built on Taiwan
Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) brand new 28nm process,
which may offer a 45% speed boost to these new products. Smaller
geometries usually mean that a processor will use less power and can be
made smaller, faster and more cheaply than previously. It's good news
then that TSMC reports that the new process is ready for mass production
and is running very well indeed. So well in fact, that unnamed sources
within TSMC claim the new 28nm process allows for a 45% increase in
clock speed over the current 40nm process. Put this together with
improved GPU architectures and the next generation of graphics cards
could be wickedly fast, something every enthusiast likes to see.
However, it appears that NVIDIA and AMD may go for a blend of
performance and power usage, rather than outright performance, since
power use of modern graphics cards is already hitting limits of
acceptability. So, does this mean that these new cards will overclock
like never before? We will have to wait and see. AMD's cards should be
out around the new year and NVIDIA's a couple of months later.
Head on over to DailyTech for a lot more detail on this.
Source: DailyTech
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