Posted on Friday, January 02 2015 @ 18:56 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
TPU
claims it may have the specifications of NVIDIA's upcoming large-die GM200 GPU. If the report is correct, the GM200 may feature a whopping 3072 CUDA cores clocked at 988MHz, 96 ROPs, 384-bit memory bus and 12GB GDDR5 memory clocked at 6600MHz offering 317GB/s of bandwidth.
The specs certainly look plausible - 3,072 CUDA cores, 50 percent more than those on the GM204; a staggering 96 ROPs, and a 384-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, holding 12 GB of memory. The memory is clocked at 6.60 GHz (GDDR5-effective), belting out 317 GB/s of bandwidth. The usable bandwidth is higher than that, due to NVIDIA's new lossless texture compression algorithms. The core is running at gigahertz-scraping 988 MHz. The process node and die-size are values we manually program GPU-Z to show, since they're not things the drivers report (to GPU-Z). NVIDIA is planning to hold a presser on the 8th of January, along the sidelines of the 2015 International CES. We're expecting a big announcement (pun intended).
