Scoob
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I've read a couple of articles saying that GK110 will first appear in the companies Tesla product line - makes sense for such an high-end part. However, while K10 (GK104) will be available shortly, K20 (GK110) is not due to be seen in the Telsa lineup until Q4 2012. I'd assume this to mean we'd likely see GK110 (GTX780?) based GeForce cards the tail end of the year. That's seems an awfully long way off.
We're due the 8000 series from AMD soon(tm), if they strongly out-perform the best GK104 based NV cards then maybe NV will bring things forward - if their development cycle allows them to do so. If however the 8000 series don't push the game on that far (which I doubt) then NV may well rest on their laurels - though I'd expect to see more repositioning on price if that's the case.
While I'm fairly impressed by the 600 series, particularly in regards effeciency, they're not the all-encompassing power houses we hope GK110 will be. Don't get me wrong, NV have learnt from AMD by making good gaming-focused cards, sacraficing Compute that few of us have any use for. Ironic that this time round AMD are the ones with the slightly more power-hungry compute platform.
I actually joked to a friend that two boffins, one from AMD the other from NV, met for lunch one day - and inadvertantly walked off with each others brief cases containing product design notes. The turn around for each really is that pronounced. NV with their smaller, power efficient design (who'd have though you'd be able to say THAT about NV eh?) and AMD with their powerful, yet larger and slightly less efficient compute design.
Interesting times is all I can say...
Scoob.
We're due the 8000 series from AMD soon(tm), if they strongly out-perform the best GK104 based NV cards then maybe NV will bring things forward - if their development cycle allows them to do so. If however the 8000 series don't push the game on that far (which I doubt) then NV may well rest on their laurels - though I'd expect to see more repositioning on price if that's the case.
While I'm fairly impressed by the 600 series, particularly in regards effeciency, they're not the all-encompassing power houses we hope GK110 will be. Don't get me wrong, NV have learnt from AMD by making good gaming-focused cards, sacraficing Compute that few of us have any use for. Ironic that this time round AMD are the ones with the slightly more power-hungry compute platform.
I actually joked to a friend that two boffins, one from AMD the other from NV, met for lunch one day - and inadvertantly walked off with each others brief cases containing product design notes. The turn around for each really is that pronounced. NV with their smaller, power efficient design (who'd have though you'd be able to say THAT about NV eh?) and AMD with their powerful, yet larger and slightly less efficient compute design.
Interesting times is all I can say...
Scoob.
