Notebook Review: Volta: NVIDIA's Next Generation GPU Architecture (2017-2018)

mercredi 24 août 2016

Volta: NVIDIA's Next Generation GPU Architecture (2017-2018)

Volta: NVIDIA's Next Generation GPU Architecture (2017-2018)

Considering there are more than a half-dozen articles from WCCFTech, MotleyFool, PCGames, and so on, I felt it time to create a discussion thread for anything Volta! Feel free to discuss, speculate, share and debate. Continue reading for information regarding Volta and what we know. If you have more links to supporting articles regarding Volta, please share them here!

The first Volta-based GPU is expected to be shown at GTC next year, according to the rumor. Advanced Micro Devices is scheduled to launch its Vega architecture in the first half of 2017. "Considering the fact that the architecture will probably be shipping with HBM2 memory, it makes sense to differentiate it from Pascal. In many ways Pascal architecture was similar to Maxwell (albeit on the 16nm FF node) which raises the question whether Volta can be to Pascal as Maxwell was to Kepler." (Usman Pirzada, WCCFTech - Source)

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It is rumored, in response to AMD's Vega 1H 2017, NVIDIA has pushed Volta's announcement up to GTC 2017, with a possible launch by the end of Q2 2017, but most likely by Q3 2017. Even though NVIDIA has yet to launch their entire Pascal GPU lineup, rumors have already emerged regarding their all new GPU architecture. The Volta GPU was to be NVIDIA’s next greatest chip architecture to replace Maxwell, but was delayed with Pascal taking its place. My opinion? Pascal is a way to milk GDDR5/GDDR5X once more before switching entirely to HBM. With Pascal research & development now complete, NVIDIA has set their focus and efforts in developing their latest and most advance GPU architecture, Volta. (WCCFTech)

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