A quick stroll through our
previous article
about how the GeForce Kepler family of next-generation GPUs is laid
out, would tell you that GeForce Kepler 104 (GK104), is going to be
NVIDIA's answer to AMD's Tahiti. GK104 will be a high-performance (≠
high-end) GPU by NVIDIA that will have many of the features that were
reserved for its previous high-end GPUs (such as a 384-bit wide GDDR5
memory interface), but will not be NVIDIA's most powerful GPU in the
series. The throne will be kept empty for GK100, which will comply with
NVIDIA's "go all in" design ideology for high-end GPUs.
3DCenter.org compiled a few specifications of the GK104 and GK100. They go like this:
GK104
- 640 to 768 CUDA cores
- 80 to 96 TMUs (depending on what the CUDA core count ends up being)
- 384-bit GDDR5 memory interface, 48 ROPs
- Built on the 28 nm TSMC process
- Products based on this will launch in the first quarter of 2012
GK100
- 1024 CUDA cores
- 128 TMUs
- 512-bit GDDR5 memory interface, 64 ROPs
If anything, this specifications disclosure is sure to have an
impact on buyers saving up for AMD's HD 7900 series products that are
heading toward launch on the 9th of January.
Source: 3DCenter.org
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