Gamers and tech enthusiasts are pretty much excited about NVIDIA's upcoming next-generation flagship GP100 GPU. The said chipset is expected to be released on April featuring 4 TFLOPS Double Precision and 12 TFLOPS Single Precision Processing Power.
According to TechFrag, another piece of information has surfaced about Nvidia's flagship GP100 (Big Pascal). The material came from a CUDA Fellow named Manuel Ujaldon, a Spanish university professor with his own profile on Nvidia's official website. The presentation slide indicated a comparison of single- and double-precision performance and the bandwidth between Fermi, Kepler, Pascal and some competing platforms from AMD and Intel. Based on the document, the chipset might have at least 12 TFLOPS single precision and 4 TFLOPS double precision performance at memory bandwidth of 1024 GB / sec.
The DP / SP ratio of 1:3 points towards the use of dedicated FP64 units to achieve the double-precision operations. To accomplish the above mentioned 12 TFLOPS, it would take 6,144 shader units at a clock speed of almost 1,000 MHz or 5,120 shader units at 1,175 MHz.
Aside from the double-precision processing power, Tech Times cited other possible aspects that might be seen with the NVIDIA GP100. It may have A Pascal graphics architecture since when it was compared with the Maxwell, the Pascal rolls two-fold performance per watt. The new Pascal GPU which will be the successor to the GM200 one that is found in the GTX Titan X and GTX 980 Ti, might also feature 17 billion transistors and 16nm FinFET base from TSMC.
The NVIDIA Pascal GPU may also have 4 Mb bus interface, comparable to the Fiji GPU power from the AMD Fury models. It is expected to have a half-precision FP16 compute at double the rate of full-precision FP32. This chipset is also expected to sport four 4-Hi HBM2 stacks, giving it 16 GB of VRAM, as well as 8-Hi stacks mounting to 32 GB for professional computations in SKUs. GP100 may also feature an exclusive compatibility with next-gen IBM PowerPC server processors due to NVLink. Also, the DirectX 12 feature will be at 12_1 or higher levels.
Christian Today stated that units of NVIDIA Pascal GP100 are currently undergoing different examinations at the company's testing facilities in India. With the GPU now in testing, it indicates that it is not all that far off from being completely ready for its release slated in April.
As of the moment, all that's certain about NVIDIA's launch plans for the Pascal GP100 is that it is intended to be released this year. Nevertheless, it didn't state any specific date as to when exactly it will hit the market shelves.
