Maxwell, POSSIBLY detailed

[James_AJ]

first off, I wouldn't go balls-on and believe this 100% if I were you.

But it does has some interesting points here which I believe are credible, including but not limited to:

• better parallelism
• MOAR cache
• revised smx structure
• energy efficiency
• helluva vRAM
• on-die integrated ARM core to offload GPU drivers from the CPU (which this guy claims NV claims that will have performance boost similar to that of Mantle - we'll see)

Of course, lot of this is for HPC/Professional market and won't trickle down to consumer market in any short time, but it is interesting to see that NV's has many tricks up its sleeves.

Thoughts?

 

source: http://pastebin.com/jm93g3YG (again, not totally reliable but a lot of stuffs mentioned seems plausible)

[jscho]

We can expect most of these features on next gen platform. More cache, less power, better this, better that, die shrink/new architecture. 

al I need is moar framz in my gaimz d00d.

[James_AJ]

We can expect most of these features on next gen platform. More cache, less power, better this, better that, die shrink/new architecture. 

al I need is moar framz in my gaimz d00d.

Maxwell IS new architecture; I'm talking about the architecture itself rather than future of gaming or next gen GPUs. Sorry for any confusion.

[jscho]

Maxwell IS new architecture; I'm talking about the architecture itself rather than future of gaming or next gen GPUs. Sorry for any confusion.

Ah, all good

[CarlosRex]

Uhh, a pastebin source leaves a really bad taste in my mouth, but what he's saying could turn out to be true by chance.

[Mooshi]

So it's the obvious as with all new tech since mankind - newer = faster.

[James_AJ]

Maybe people just don't care for anything other than "OMG ITS FASTERRRR" but all these features bring about something more than just performance boost.

 

Integrated ARM CPU => possibly better driver implementation

revised smx structure/better parallelism => possibly better GPU acceleration in pro applications

more & faster vRAM => definitely more complicated and higher quality scenes/render in games and media creation

 

Maybe you should care about something other than just being faster..

[Mooshi]

Maybe people just don't care for anything other than "OMG ITS FASTERRRR" but all these features bring about something more than just performance boost.

 

Integrated ARM CPU => possibly better driver implementation

revised smx structure/better parallelism => possibly better GPU acceleration in pro applications

more & faster vRAM => definitely more complicated and higher quality scenes/render in games and media creation

 

Maybe you should care about something other than just being faster..

 

I was teasing.

 

vRAM improvements is always a great thing.

[Kobz360]

I'm more keen for Volta. Dat stacked vRAM 

 

[GoodBytes]

MAXIMUM SPEEED!!!!

I'll be buying it, to replace my current GPU.. GTX 260

The ARM on GPU is what I am most interested in.

[SheriffHD]

tbh, with nvidia and AMD make cards that directly compete, so after all the new cards from AMD have been announced, we can be pretty sure that nVidia will come out with a card line which will closely rival what AMD brings out.

[winny3141]

The integrated ARMv8 64-bit core is soo much better than Mantle. This is because the nvidia gpu driver itself can offload the driver processing on the ARM cores, reducing CPU overhead, for ALL applications utilizing the OpenGL and Direct X 11 APIs. Mantle is nothing new, and it was said by Slick on the WAN show that in the late 1990s, 3DFX had the same thing with their Voodoo GPUs using the Glide API. Soonly after they failed as a company, not because of that, but because the Computer gaming market was crashing. My point is that for the Mantle API to be utilized, the game has to program using the API, but not all game developers will do this. Even Battlefield is not going to just use the Mantle API, as that would make the game incompatable with the Nvidia graphics cards. Every game is either going to be runnign Direct X or Open GL and these ARM cores will reduce CPU overhead in ALL games or applications using these APIs. AMD broke the 1 TFLOPS barrier in the 4000 series in 2008, in 2009 they broke the 2 TFLOPS barrier with the 5000 series, the 7000 series broke the 3 TFLOPS barrier, and the 7970 GHz Edition was well over 4 TFLOPS. AMD is also making the CPU cores and GPU cores on their APU solution that are going to be used in the next gen consoles (Xbox One and PS4). However, Nvidia takes what AMD has, and fine tunes it to make it better, and that is why I am going with Nvidia. Perfect Drivers, Great Hardware, Great Qaulity, and a better version of Mantle that is actually practical. My decision for the GPU in my next computer is clear now.

 

- winny3141

[acepro71]

what is maxwell sorry  >?

[GoodBytes]

what is maxwell sorry  >?

Nvidia next architecture expected to be released in early 2014.

In other words, for us, gamers: GeForce 800 series

[acepro71]

Nvidia next architecture expected to be released in early 2014.

In other words, for us, gamers: GeForce 800 series

thats for getting me up to tracks 

[pit5000]

all i want to know is can it power multiple 4K displays?

[LifesCompanion]

all i want to know is can it power multiple 4K displays?

Unless you're stupid rich it won't matter - the price per pixel won't really change. 

But to answer your question, considering that the R290X can power 3 4K monitors (albeit it was Dirt 3), one would assume it could drive a minimum of 3 monitors comfortably. 

[SubTract]

wow.