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I thought it was being reported that GK114 was going to be the 780?
It probably is, nVidia will use the time GK114 buys to work out kinks in GK110 and get some better yields if possible, then release a GTX 785 if all the current rumors are true.
Considering that an Nvidia fan OBR is saying GK114=GTX780 and Charlie is claiming that the roadmaps have
just been changed I also think a GK110 based GTX 785 card is very possible. I wouldn't be surprised if Nvidia did something similar to the following:
First release GK114 as the GTX780 and let it battle with the 8970 for supremacy in March. If the rumors are to be believed those cards will only be about 15%-20% better than the best of the current gen, but since it carries the x80 moniker NV can still charge $500. And then release the GK110 as the GTX 785 a few months later (say August/September) for $650? maybe even $700... Even if it is only 30% faster than the GTX 780 it would still be the fastest in the world a lot of people would be falling over themselves to buy one.
That makes for a good way to get rid of dies that would otherwise become, as Charlie says, keychains, and it provides a bridge to Maxwell which may be as late as Q3 2014 depending on TSMC.
It's exactly what they did with GT200, except it was a die-shrink (And clocked higher) and not a new chip completely.
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As far as i understand it GK114 is a tweaked revised variant of GK110.
It merely means it's a revised version of GK104, GK110 is the revised version of GK100, etc.
Most likely nVidia worked on fixing GK100 which made GK110, nVidia would have also been tweaking GK104 into GK114 which then probably provided stuff for GK110 and visa versa, both are flagship product dies so they'd likely have separate teams working on them.
