AMD’s coming RV8xx remains illusive and whether it will borrow a lot from the current RV7xx family or become something completely new is something we’re still trying to find out. Specifications remains undisclosed and even though number may not exceed those of RV770 by a lot, there should be other differences having major impact. AMD’s new 40nm family is just the start of an all the more clear trend among graphics, like the CPU market, where more and more workloads are handled in parallel. Something nemesis NVIDIA will also move toward.
NVIDIA’s Chief Scientist William J. Dally has spoken to Eetimes on the future of the green team and revealed that NVIDIA’s graphics circuits will in the year 2015 use 11nm technology and contain around 5000 cores, which should render them capable of around 20 Teraflops.
For comparison, NVIDIA’s G200 circuits offers a total of 240 shaders for around 1 Teraflops at the 55nm node, which just looks weak when you hear what’s coming.
Gainward GeForce GTX 285 (NVIDIA G200)
