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Nvidia Denies Plans to Release Kepler GPU in 2011.

Nvidia: Kepler-Based Products to Ship in 2012

[08/04/2011 05:54 PM]
by Anton Shilov

Nvidia Corp. on Thursday clarified its plans regarding the next-generation Kepler graphics processing units (GPUs) and their release timeframes. Apparently, the company is on schedule to receive the early silicon of Kepler from its manufacturing partner later in 2011, but the commercial launch of the product is scheduled to occur only in 2012.

"Although we will have early silicon this year, Kepler-based products are actually scheduled to go into production in 2012. We wanted to clarify this so people wouldn’t expect product to be available this year," said Ken Brown, a spokesman for Nvidia, in an email statement.

Chris Malachowsky, senior vice president of research and a co-founder of Nvidia said at a recent event that Nvidia would start shipping its next-generation graphics processing units code-named Kepler by the end of the year. The company did not say that the new chips will actually become available commercially though.

Kepler is Nvidia's next-generation graphics processor architecture that is projected to bring considerable performance improvements and will likely make the GPU more flexible in terms of programmability, which will speed up development of applications that take advantage of GPGPU (general purpose processing on GPU) technologies. Some of the technologies that Nvidia promised to introduce in Kepler and Maxwell (the architecture that will succeed Kepler) include virtual memory space (which will allow CPUs and GPUs to use the "unified" virtual memory), pre-emption, enhance the ability of GPU to autonomously process the data without the help of CPU and so on.

The new chip is projected to be made using 28nm process technology. Many believe that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, which makes chips for Nvidia, AMD and many others, will not be able to supply enough 28nm products this calendar year.

Nvidia's Kepler family of products, which will likely get GeForce 600-series name in the consumer market segment, will not only power Nvidia's mid-term future products, but will also help Nvidia to boost sales of its desktop discrete graphics cards. In Q2 2011 shipments of discrete graphics boards for desktops were down 15%, according to some analysts.

Tags: Nvidia, Geforce, Kepler, 28nm, Maxwell, Tesla, Quadro

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Expand all threads | Collapse all threads I don't believe AMD has anything to stand up against kepler once it comes out+ expand thread (2 answers) - collapse thread  I don't believe Nvidia has anything to stand up against Southern Islands once it comes out.

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 I don't believe AMD has anything to stand up against kepler once it comes out
Seriously?? Have you even read any of the reports about the AMD Graphics Core Next Compute Units (CU)? This is a significant departure in GPU power from the previous generation of AMD/ATi GPUs. Don't forget you have the technical graphical prowess of ATi mixed in with CPU tech of AMD. If there's a company that's going take GPU computing to the next level it's AMD/ATi. Don't get me wrong, I like nVidia a lot, but times are a changing. This was no surprise, why does NVIDIA need to rush out the next architecture when they still hold the single GPU crown. I think they should focus on SLI for a little while, considering how CF setups are beating SLI even when SLI has better individual cards if ran by themselves vs the CF cards.+ expand thread (3 answers) - collapse thread  Single GPU Crowns are for both

AMD GPUs are heavily Integer Friendly
Nvidia GPUs are heavily Floating Point Friendly

AMD = The Best at Integer(Bitcoin Mining)
Nvidia = The Best at Floating Point(F@H)

 you could buy two radeon 6950s and crossfire them for the price of a single GTX 580Nvidia has single GPU crown and soon will get dual GPU crown. Asus claims that Mars II is 22% faster that GTX 590.

P.S. Charlie Demerjian eat shit.

+ expand thread (1 answer) - collapse thread  ...i think something is wrong with you Bro. calm down is just silicon, metal, plastic and electricity.One day the Senior VP says something, next day they clarify....
seems to me they are having some problems with the architecture and the process!

Just hope Kepler and SI come out before Diablo3 so that I can have a choice!

+ expand thread (1 answer) - collapse thread  Personally I prefer to hope that Diablo 3 will run well on current generation cards.I don't believe Nvidia has anything to stand up against Southern Islands once it comes out.

There, fixed for you
4 2 [Posted by: quasi_accurate [Rating 2.58] | Date: 08/04/11 08:51:39 PM]

nigga, the southern islands is the same exact arch as the one they are using now. amd is known to use the same arch for many years without updating such as with their phenoms. the only difference with the southern islands is the 28nm fab and probably increased clock speeds. nvidia kepler is a whole new arch and they are not rushing it. they create new arch every 2 years just like intel who creates new arch every 18 months.

+ expand thread (1 answer) - collapse thread  GeForce 8000 family came out in 2006, GeForce 400 family in 2010. about 3.5 year difference. So where exactly you get the "every 2 years" is unclear.Oh here we go again, nVidia fanboys vs AMD fanboys.

I wonder when you will stop being like that and just buy whatever you like without feeling the need to dig some shit for the "opposing force" so you can feel better for your purchase.

So far I see both companies to hold great and both have always a GPU as good as the other, something that make them compete more and more, and give us cheaper GPUs with more horsepower.

Now give me thumbs down for pointing out the obvious in your stupid conflict.

+ expand thread (4 answers) No, it's a stupid conflict. But it's also stupid to goad people into voting a thumbs down.

By the way, far as I've seen competition leads to better products but also higher prices.