Nvidia Pascal GeForce GTX 1080 Pictured, Allegedly - June Launch Imminent

A photograph showing Nvidia'south upcoming flagship Pascal GeForce GTX 1080 graphics menu has but made its fashion to the web. It depicts a silver graphics card shroud, clearly begetting the Nvidia logo on the right and an engraved "GTX 1080" on the left. The allegedly new NVTTM cooler maintains the same familiar artful expect of Nvidia's current GeForce lineup. Featuring a silverish metallic body with black accents and a small acrylic window sitting above the vapor chamber and heatsink fin array.

Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080

The new blueprint adopts a much more aggressive look with many sharp angles throughout the exterior of the metal exoskeleton. Although notably, only the cooling unit's shroud is visible in this movie. It'southward difficult to tell if it includes the actual heatsink equally no fins are visible backside the acrylic window. Additionally, we tin conspicuously see that there's no printed circuit board beneath the shroud, no PCIe connector or rear bracket. And so this is just the external body that'due south allegedly of aGTX 1080 and not an actual graphics card.

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[UPDATED - 2022/4/20 - 07:15 AM ET]

Alleged Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 And GTX 1070 Shroud Tear Down

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An earlier photo that was leaked online showed another, identical, metallic shroud with the "GTX 1070" moniker engraved instead. We could very well be looking at the cosmos of a modder that designed these shrouds for his own personal entertainment. There's no way of telling whether these are actual Nvidia made or the production of a creative enthusiast.

NVIDIA GeForce Pascal Cards

Whether Nvidia volition actually name their next generation GTX 980 and GTX 970 replacements GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 has been a subject field of fierce debate. It'due south important to point out that there's very little evidence that Nvidia will even use a k series naming convention for its upcoming products rather than innovate an fresh ane every bit they take historically done over the years every time a given naming scheme had ran out.

Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 And GeForce GTX 1070 Launching This Summer

All leaks that have surfaced to appointment with regards to Nvidia'southward release plans for the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 have pointed towards a scheduled announcement at Computex with production availability in June. The leaks take been piling up since earlier terminal month. Nosotros've seen die shots of Nvidia's GP104 and GP106 GPUs leak. We've seen most specifications for Nvidia'south GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 also leak out. Including 8GB of GDDR5/Ten retentivity and a 256bit retentivity interface for both cards and around two thousand Pascal CUDA cores for the GTX 1080.

NVIDIA Pascal GP104 GPu

We also spotted several benchmarks of Nvidia's upcoming Pascal GeForce GTX series lineup. Which showed performance that'south ahead of the GTX 980 Ti and GTX 980. The latest whispers claim that Nvidia'southward GeForce GTX 1080 is powered past the GP104-400 GPU, the "total fatty" variant of the GP104 graphics processing unit. Which is likewise set to power the GTX 1070 all be information technology with a few CUDA cores and other on-chip resource lasered off.

Nvidia Pascal Specs

WCCF	GTX 980 Ti	GTX 980	GTX 1080	GTX 1070	TESLA P100 (GP100)
GPU	GM200	GM204	GP104	GP104	GP100
Process Node	28nm	28nm	16nm FinFET	16nm FinFET	16nm FinFET
Transistors	viii Billion	five.2 Billion	TBA	TBA	15.iii Billion
CUDA Cores	2816 CUDA Cores	2048 CUDA Cores	2560 CUDA Cores?	2048 CUDA Cores?	3840 CUDA Cores
VRAM	6 GB GDDR5	four GB GDDR5	8 GB GDDR5X	8 GB GDDR5	16GB HBM2
Retention Bus	384-bit	256-fleck	256-flake	256-bit	4096-bit
Retention Speed	7Gbps	7Gbps	10Gbps	8Gbps	1.4Gbps
Bandwidth	336GB/southward	224GB/due south	320GB/southward	256GB/s	720GB/s
TDP	250W	165W	TBA	TBA	300W
Launch Date	May 2022	September 2022	June 2022	June 2022	Q1 2022

Nvidia's Pascal Architecture - Fewer, Faster CUDA Cores With Significantly Higher Per Thread Throughput

We dove deep into Nvidia'southward Pascal compages after the company'southward GTC 2022 reveal of the Tesla P100 in April. A powerful accelerator based on the company's largest always GPU, the Pascal GP100 which will be launching in 2022. We discussed all the architectural updates that Nvidia has made to Pascal which I'd highly recommend that you bank check out if you're interested in finding out more about Pascal'southward performance characteristics.

NVIDIA Pascal SMP

A few very significant changes from Maxwell to Pascal stick out. Each Pascal CUDA core has been beefed upwardly considerably compared to Maxwell and clock speeds have gone upwardly by 33%. So cadre for core, Pascal will be much faster than Maxwell.

Tesla Products	Tesla K40	Tesla M40	Tesla P100
GPU	GK110 (Kepler)	GM200 (Maxwell)	GP100 (Pascal)
SMs	15	24	56
TPCs	xv	24	28
FP32 CUDA Cores / SM	192	128	64
FP32 CUDA Cores / GPU	2880	3072	3584
FP64 CUDA Cores / SM	64	four	32
FP64 CUDA Cores / GPU	960	96	1792
Base of operations Clock	745 MHz	948 MHz	1328 MHz
GPU Boost Clock	810/875 MHz	1114 MHz	1480 MHz
Compute Operation - FP32	5.04 TFLOPS	six.82 TFLOPS	ten.half-dozen TFLOPS
Compute Functioning - FP64	1.68 TFLOPS	0.21 TFLOPS	5.3 TFLOPS
Texture Units	240	192	224
Memory Interface	384-chip GDDR5	384-fleck GDDR5	4096-bit HBM2
Memory Size	Upwardly to 12 GB	Up to 24 GB	16 GB
L2 Cache Size	1536 KB	3072 KB	4096 KB
Register File Size / SM	256 KB	256 KB	256 KB
Register File Size / GPU	3840 KB	6144 KB	14336 KB
TDP	235 Watts	250 Watts	300 Watts
Transistors	7.1 billion	viii billion	15.three billion
GPU Dice Size	551 mm²	601 mm²	610 mm²
Manufacturing Process	28-nm	28-nm	sixteen-nm

This should come as a relief to those who take been wondering if Nvidia's GP104 based, GTX 1080 and GTX 1070, graphics cards volition offer a reasonable speed-up over the GTX 980 Ti and GTX 980. The leaked die shot of GP104 revealed that the chip in question is roughly just 300mm² large, half that of the 3840 CUDA core GP100 GPU.

The GP100 GPU features six GPCs, Graphics Processing Clusters. Each contains 10 Pascam SMs, Streaming Multiprocessors. Each SM contains 64 Pascal CUDA cores. Which means that each GPC houses 640 Pascal CUDA cores. Since the GP104 GPU is almost exactly one-half the size of GP100, If Nvidia maintains the same x SM per GPC design,the GTX 1080 should feature 3 GPCs and 1920 CUDA cores. And up to 2048 CUDA cores if Nvidia decides to tweak the pattern and opt for a 4 GPC layout with north 8 SMs per GPC.

GPU	Kepler GK110	Maxwell GM200	Pascal GP100	Volta GV100
Compute Adequacy	3.five	5.3	half dozen.0	7.0
Threads / Warp	32	32	32	32
Max Warps / Multiprocessor	64	64	64	64
Max Threads / Multiprocessor	2048	2048	2048	2048
Max Thread Blocks / Multiprocessor	16	32	32	32
Max 32-fleck Registers / SM	65536	65536	65536	65536
Max Registers / Block	65536	32768	65536	65536
Max Registers / Thread	255	255	255	255
Max Thread Block Size	1024	1024	1024	1024
CUDA Cores / SM	192	128	64	64
Shared Memory Size / SM Configurations (bytes)	16K/32K/48K	96K	64K	96K

In either instance, with Pascal's meaning architectural improvements and very high frequency increase in mind. A 1920-2048 CUDA cadre GTX 1080 graphics card should stop upward being faster than a GTX 980 Ti. The functioning delta should be reminiscent of what GTX 980 brought to the table when it launched compared to the GTX 780 Ti. A xv-twenty% performance increase at a lower price point. That being said the GTX 1070 should exist the star of the lineup, delivering GTX 980 Ti comparable performance at a much more affordable price signal. Again similar to the performance/$ gains that the 970 offered compared to the 780 Ti.

AMD'south Polaris GCN 4.0 architecture is purported to deliver like gains over the company's current GCN iteration, we'll be detailing those in an upcoming architectural deep swoop slice as well. Polaris 10 and Polaris 11 based cards, R9 490, 480 and 470 serial, are also pegged for a June launch against Pascal. Then nosotros can't expect to see both Pascal and Polaris in activity this summer.