NVIDIA may release an updated version of Pascal – 3DNews

Graphics architecture NVIDIA Pascal has been very successful. Graphics cards based on it rightly dominated today in the market of gaming discrete graphics. And one of the nice features of the new GP is their high frequency potential. But, it seems that “green” enough already achieved success in the world wide web circulate interesting rumors that NVIDIA may release an updated version of Pascal with an even higher frequencies. Such rumors are not groundless: the first GP Pascal was released using 16-nm process technology by TSMC, which was at that time in its infancy.

She TSMC is constantly working to improve its latest technology and plans to optimize it in order to increase the ratio of yield of crystals Pascal. Why NVIDIA thereupon to release a new version of the already sensational graphics cards, offering consumers an even higher clock frequency, and hence performance? While rumors say that the update will affect the flagship games of the kernel, GP102, which is the heart of the latest version of Titan X. As you know, even in this active not all physically present at the crystal cores CUDA, so Pascal Refresh can mean not only an increase in frequency, but also the use of the full potential inherent in the design GP102.

In the end, this tactic is not new for NVIDIA: previous the Maxwell architecture is also divided into two generations, and before it the company has released an updated version of the graphics core Kepler. It is not yet known whether the touch update GP104 less expensive and therefore more popular core, which is the heart of the GeForce GTX 1080 and GeForce GTX 1070. Foreign sources believe that an updated version of the GP102 can “out of the box” to offer users the frequencies 2 GHz and to support them even when running under load. For comparison, the current version of the Titan X is the original frequency formula 1417/1531 MHz without the use of extreme measures accelerates until about 1620 MHz in normal mode and only in the peak crosses over around 2 GHz.

As the first version, the updated Titan X will have the memory GDDR5X; currently, the company Acer is working to increase the yield of chips of this standard. It is expected that the entire updated line of Pascal will get GDDR5X, the shortage will have passed. The exception would be the CPU entry-level GP107. This will give a major increase in memory bandwidth, and hence increase performance in modern games that run at 4K resolution (3840 × 2160). If the changes affect models such as GeForce GTX GeForce GTX 1070 and 1060, this will make them more popular, and the situation for AMD Radeon Technologies Group worsen, because “red” is no answer even on current versions GP104, not to mention the GP102. The update in question, to be held in the next, 2017.

There is also information concerning the next architecture NVIDIA codenamed Volta. This successor of Pascal should be announced at the conference the GPU Technology Conference in 2017, just a year after the appearance of the earlier architecture. As in the case of Pascal, the first processors Volta GV110 will be used to market superficialty (HPC) and get a layered memory HBM2. But the consumer version of the Volta may appear only in 2018. If you believe the rumors, the standard amount of video memory will be 16 GB, and will use the standard GDDR6, not HBM2 HBM3 or, as previously thought. In comparison with GDDR5X, GDDR6 will be able to offer a 1.6-fold increase in bandwidth at lower energy consumption. New analog Titan X on the chip GV102 get more memory — 24 GB in the first iteration and, possibly, 48 GB in the second. 384-bit bus access is stored as a 256-bit analogues GeForce GTX 1080/1070.

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