GK110--when do you think it will be released?

[sontin]

nVidia published nearly everything about GK110 except clocks and SMX count.
You can read it on their website.

 

[Arzachel]

Arzachel, where are your numbers? Where are you pulling or extrapolating your data from? For all you know, it could pull anywhere from 200 to 400W or anywhere in between. As goes for the rest of us. This is a conversation better left for after reviews. We could guess until we're dead and not get it right.

I agree that we're not likely to guess the exact amount, but we already have half the variables. It's going to be clocked at either 650 - 800mhz at 1/3 dp rate or 400-550 at 1/2 dp. As for the TDP, the GTX 690 is rated at 300W and power draw doesn't scale linearly with complexity.

 

[Hypertag]

Okay, the K20 with no turbo boost will be clocked at 800MHz.

What does this actually prove?

http://www.buy.com/prod/nvidia-tesla...ngId=206654046

This is the GF110 based Tesla compute card. It is running at 650MHz / 1300 MHz hot clocks. It was released after the GF110 based consumer cards http://pressroom.nvidia.com/easyir/...prid=757066&releasejsp=release_157&xhtml=true , and it was released with lower clock speeds than the consumer GF110 based cards (GTX 570 and GTX 580). We know GK110 FP64 is capable of 1/3rd of FP32, so don't imply it is capable of 1/2.

 

[tviceman]

Fair enough. I am going with:

12-13 SMX harvested GK110 @ 1000mhz

OR

15 SMX units at very low clocks 725-800mhz

OR

An entirely new chip that builds on GK104 modular architecture.

I don't think we'll ever see any GK110 part with warranty covering, sanctioned 1000mhz core clock speeds. Yes I think we'll get harvested parts, but if we get a GK110 release 6 months after it begins full production, I think they will have enough fully functional dies for a volume release.

If they don't release GK110 as a consumer part, then the only way Nvidia will be able to compete on the PC gaming high end next year is to outfit GK104 with another 64-bit memory controller, couple it with the usual tweaks that can be made in 9 months / 12 months time frame, and hope node improvements allow for higher core clocks without adversely affecting yields.