Sources of partner manufacturers now claim to SweClockers that Nvidia recently announced that the launch of the GeForce GTX 880 and GTX 870 takes place in the fourth quarter, probably in October or November.
Despite the new model series, it is still 28 nanometer technology that applies. The semiconductor manufacturer TSMC is indeed start production in 20 nanometers, but it does not seem to apply to the kind of high-performance circuits used for GPUs.
The circuit is said to be the "second generation" Maxwell and hinted thus contain more news than higher performance.
yeah the plot slowly thickens. more and more news and rumours popping up here and there (although many probably just quoting each other). It starts to feel like this time of the year again where you can slowly feel that something is coming in a few months.
Even with Maxwell on 28nm the performance increase per Watt is going to be quite remarkable. The early 750 and ti cards really show a difference in power consumption. That definitely means lower temperatures and hopefully higher clocks...
well if I were Nvidia I would do that in 28nm, because that would leave me with the following options:
- A bigger die GM200 is clearly better than GM204 even at 28nm and I can sell it as a better card
- A GM200 is very likely to be better than anything AMD has to offer at that time
- It leaves the option to bring a 20nm GM 210 with about the same die size or even smaller that is better than the GM200
- I can use the 20nm cards for premium products like the Titans~
- 28nm is way cheaper currently and the maxwell architecture is so good, that it will clearly trump the Titan Black/780 Ti without even breaking a sweat.
Not for a long time is my guess. Get ready for the GTX 880, GTX 880 TI, GTX TI SE, GTX Titan, GTX Titan Black, GTX Titan XYZ, GTX Titan XYZ Milkage Edition.
With news like this its great to see nv is getting ready to bomb something out. With that said between now and oct-nov be prepared because anything can happen ive seen it happen with the 700s people was saying a later date and out of thin air release dates got bumped up. If the specs is nice with the gtx 880 ill be getting one
People took somewhat vague statements from TSMC and have apparently reverse-engineered from them their entire production schedule. I have extreme doubts about that. Especially since "oh, a press release where they said SoC and not HPC, GPUS ARE DOOMED!!!!!" seems to be the conclusion. Yes, TSMC's production capability has limits, but I don't understand why people think they're so single-purpose.
True nv hasnt said anything honestly and once they let the cat out the bag as more rumors hit around that time we will know. As for now its still way to early but i do hope nv puts on a heck of a show
Seeing how I just picked up a 780 Classified a few months back, it will be some time before I upgrade most likely.
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