[AT] NVIDIA P100 PCI-E shipping Q4

MrTeal

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According to Ryan Smith, nVidia announced at ISC that they would be shipping P100 in PCI-E form in Q4.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/10433/nvidia-announces-pci-express-tesla-p100

Interestingly there will be two versions, a full and cut. Unlike traditional GPUs though, the cut version has all the CC's of the full version, but has one of the HBM stacks disabled. I could definitely see this being used by AMD/nVidia in the consumer space as well as they start to ship larger numbers of HBM GPUs.
I suppose it's not surprising that NVLINK is also cut, but it would have been interesting if they'd kept it and routed it to a new top edge connector similar to SLI.

I have to say, this is earlier than I expected this product to be sold in this form.
 

MrTeal

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Why? Q4 could be December 31, 2016 couldn't it?

It could, but when P100 was first announced nVidia had talked about early access through their DGX1, and that customer systems featuring P100 would start appearing in Q1 2017. I didn't really expect bare adaptors to be available before that.
Hopefully this is a good sign for HBM2 and CoWoS yields.