NVIDIA 16nm Pascal Powered GeForce GTX 1080 Launching in May - Uses Full GP104 GPU With 2x Perf Per Watt and 8 GB Memory

NVIDIA is on the verge of launching their first 16nm FinFET based products featuring the highest performance and power efficiency to appointment. Pascal which is the name of their upcoming GPU compages is built from ground upwardly to deliver not but the best gaming performance merely as well the best compute operation. NVIDIA is going to nowadays their Pascal GPUs at GTC 2022 but information technology seems like we already have a hint at when the consumer variant will be launching equally Benchlife reports that NVIDIA is prepping the GeForce GTX 1080 for launch in May.

NVIDIA'due south High-Performance GeForce GTX 1080 Rumored To Launch in May - Features GP104 Core, GP100 Consumer Variant Ships Later

We take long been awaiting to learn some information on the Pascal GPUs regarding which NVIDIA has kept really silent simply it seems similar the company is getting ready for a big showcase at GTC 2022. NVIDIA's CEO, Jen Hsun Huang himself will deliver the opening keynote of GTC and present not only their latest 16nm FinFET architecture but the respective cards that utilize the Pascal GPUs.

Word is that NVIDIA'due south Pascal volition aim at both consumer and server markets every bit the chip to be in headlines would be the GP100 which is the flagship GPU in the Pascal lineup and the full fledged beast that will be shipping with Tesla and Quadro brands offset. The consumer side will not be left alone as NVIDIA will launch their new graphics carte du jour based on the GP104 which will be solely aimed at gamers in Q2 2022. These cards will include new graphic side enhancements along with software side enhancements for APIs such equally Vulkan and DirectX 12.

NVIDIA's Gaming (GP104) Pascal GPUs To Characteristic Upwards To eight GB GDDR5 Memory and Single viii-Pivot Connector

The report mentions that NVIDIA's GP104 will be utilized by a graphics card called the GeForce GTX 1080. Know we don't know whether NVIDIA will exist aiming for a 1000 serial naming scheme or skipping it for something far more than simpler but the name could alter at any signal since the launch is however a few months away. The GeForce GTX 1080 will be the fastest consumer offering for a while and while NVIDIA will too have the GTX 1070 in the aforementioned time frame, the latter will fall below the 1080 performance since it will be using a cut down configuration.

There are some significant details in the mentioned report which state that NVIDIA's GP104 based Pascal cards will feature up to 8 GB GDDR5 memory. This brings the memory capacity to the same amount as AMD's current Radeon R9 390 series graphics cards which are hitting amidst the public for their great price to performance value. The report says that GDDR5 is the memory standard to be used on the GP104 serial cards and there remains a possibility where AIBs tin start shipping college performance GDDR5X fries based cards after on since Micron is expected to offset mass product in Summertime of 2022.

Pascal Features 2x Compute Efficiency Compared To Maxwell

Operation side of things, NVIDIA will have their GP104 GPUs pitted directly against AMD'southward Radeon Fury and high-finish Polaris (Mid-2016) graphics cards while the GP100 consumer variant (New Titan) volition exist competing confronting the flagship Polaris based graphics cards. The GP100 consumer variant will feature up to 16 GB HBM2 memory while the HPC variants will ship with up to 32 GB HBM2 memory.

It is stated that Samsung is in straight cooperation with NVIDIA on deployment of HBM2 retentiveness for their cards and have already begun production as of early 2022. SK Hynix on the other paw is directly cooperating with AMD for the development of the new HBM2 memory dies for their Polaris GPUs still SK Hynix has stated to commence mass production in Q3 2022.

Other details that are mentioned suggest that the GeForce GTX 1080 will exist shipping on 27th May which is but a few days before Computex then its probable that NVIDIA may host a Pre-Computex upshot to brandish their Pascal consumer variants. The reference variants will feature 2 Brandish Port, i HDMI and a single DVI brandish output. The custom models are said to start aircraft in June and so AIBs will take a great take a chance to showcase their new products at Computex 2022.

Image of a Quadro M6000 With Full GM200 Core, Power is Supplied through unmarried eight-Pin connector!

Finally, we are expected to see a single eight-Pin power connector on the GP104 cards which will be a practiced approach from the dual half dozen-Pivot configuration required on current graphics boards. A single 8-Pin connector can suck 150W of power while a single half dozen-Pin connector sucks 75W of power which is the aforementioned as the PCI-Express slot. Pascal is known to deliver more than 2x the performance per watt of Maxwell. Maxwell itself was NVIDIA's bet on power efficiency and it turned out actually well for the company, Pascal is further going to take NVIDIA's pb in the efficiency department which has been their strongest adapt since Kepler GPU in 2022. NVIDIA is too expected to launch their mobility Pascal GPUs in mid of June.

Flagship FiNFET GPUs:

GPU Family	Vega	NVIDIA Pascal
Flagship GPU	Vega 10	GP102
GPU Process	14nm FinFET	16nm FinFET
GPU Transistors	Upward To 18 Billion	12 Billion
Memory	Upward to sixteen GB HBM2	12GB GDDR5X
Bandwidth	512 GB/due south	480 GB/s
Graphics Architecture	Vega (NCU)	Pascal
Predecessor	Fiji (Fury Series)	GM200 (900 Serial)

More Pascal Boards Spotted on Zauba - Listed on March ninth, Fix For Production

The listing of Pascal boards showing up on Zauba are increasing every passing month and in March 2022, 7 new listings of Pascal boards were spotted bearing the codename of 699-12914-0000-100, 699-1G610-0000-000, 699-12914-0076-100. This suggests that NVIDIA is actively testing new boards which will reach production in Q2 2022.

What nosotros know so far most Nvidia's flagship Pascal GP100 GPU :

Pascal graphics architecture.
2x performance per watt estimated improvement over Maxwell.
To launch in 2022, purportedly the second half of the year.
DirectX 12 feature level 12_1 or higher.
Successor to the GM200 GPU found in the GTX Titan 10 and GTX 980 Ti.
Built on the 16nm FinFET manufacturing process from TSMC.
Allegedly has a total of 17 billion transistors, more than twice that of GM200.
Will feature iv 4-Hi HBM2 stacks, for a total of 16GB of VRAM and 8-Hi stacks for up to 32GB for the professional compute SKUs.
Features a 4096-bit memory bus interface, same as AMD'southward Fiji GPU power the Fury series.
Features NVLink (merely uniform with side by side generation IBM PowerPC server processors)
Supports half precision FP16 compute at twice the rate of full precision FP32.

TSMC To Double 16nm FinFET Chip Production in March 2022

In other news, Digitimes had reported that reports from Taiwan based Economic Daily news reveals that TSMC will double their 16nm chip product in the current month. The report mentions that the output capacity of TSMC's 16nm plants (Currently at 40,000 chips for February 2022) will reach 80,000 wafers, double the amount currently being produced. It should be noted that customers like NVIDIA and Apple will be building their fries upon the new 16nm FinFET nodes from TSMC.

Rumors declared that the recent Taiwan convulsion had badly afflicted the manufacturing capacity of TSMC'south 16nm process node however doubling of the chapters past TSMC shows that their plants remain unaffected and production is going smoothly and at a very fast pace to fill in orders from NVIDIA and Apple for their adjacent gen products.

TSMC co-CEO CC Wei remarked at the company'southward most recent investors meeting that TSMC's share of the fourteen/16nm foundry market place segment will rise higher up 70% in 2022 from around 40% in 2022. The foundry's 16nm FinFET processes consisting of 16FF (16nm FinFET), 16FF+ (16nm FinFET Plus) and 16FFC (16nm FinFET Meaty) will generate more than twenty% of its total wafer revenues in 2022. via Digitimes

Good times are alee as more powerful and energy efficient graphics cards enter the market. Pascal is said to exist a game changer for NVIDIA as it will further strengthen their roots in the HPC and Server markets while offering great new gaming products in the GeForce lineup which is the most popular platform amongst PC gamers. While the GeForce GTX 1080 and GeForce GTX 1070 are said to launch in tardily Q2 2022, the GP100 consumer variants will be arriving when a steady supply is available for both consumer and professional markets. Gamers will have the next best back up with NVIDIA for VR/AR and 4K gaming experiences which are going to stir up the gaming market this year.

NVIDIA GeForce Consumer Graphics Cards:

NVIDIA Pascal GP102 GTX Titan 10 Specifications:

Graphics Card Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti	NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan X	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080	NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan (Pascal)
Graphics Core	GM204	GM200	GM200	GP104	GP104	GP102
Process Node	28nm	28nm	28nm	16nm FinFET	16nm FinFET	16nm FinFET
Transistors	5.two Billion	8 Billion	8 Billion	vii.2 Billion	7.2 Billion	12.0 Billion
CUDA Cores	2048 CUDA Cores	2816 CUDA Cores	3072 CUDA Cores	1920 CUDA Cores	2560 CUDA Cores	3584 CUDA Cores
Base of operations Clock	1126 MHz	1000 MHz	1000 MHz	1506 MHz	1607 MHz	1417 MHz
Boost Clock	1216 MHz	1075 MHz	1075 MHz	1683 MHz	1733 MHz	1531 MHz
FP32 Compute	5.6 TFLOPs	half dozen.v TFLOPs	7.0 TFLOPs	6.five TFLOPs	nine.0 TFLOPs	x.1 TFLOPs
VRAM	4 GB GDDR5	half dozen GB GDDR5	12 GB GDDR5	8 GB GDDR5	eight GB GDDR5X	12 GB GDDR5X
Jitney Interface	256-chip bus	384-bit passenger vehicle	384-bit double-decker	256-bit motorcoach	256-scrap omnibus	384-bit omnibus
Power Connector	6+half-dozen Pin Power	8+6 Pivot Power	8+6 Pin Power	Single 8-Pin Power	Single eight-Pin Power	eight+half dozen Pin Power
TDP	165W	250W	250W	150W	180W	250W
Display Outputs	3x Display Port 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DVI	3x Display Port 1x HDMI ii.0 1x DVI	3x Display Port 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DVI	3x Display Port 1.four 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DVI	3x Display Port 1.4 1x HDMI ii.0b 1x DVI	3x Brandish Port 1.4 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DVI
Launch Date	September 2022	May 2022	March 2022	10th June 2022	27th May 2022	August 2022
Launch Price	$549 US	$649 The states	$999 United states	$379 United states	$599 US	$1200 US