When will Kepler Launch? What's the "hold up"?

Picao84 · **Joined:** Sun Nov 07, 2010 9:49 am **Posts:** 39

Picao84 wrote:

I also have my doubts.. 1536 cores @1.4Ghz? 1536 cores with hotclock in such a small chip? Or maybe NVIDIA invented something like Hyperthreading, with 768 cores behaving almost like 1536, and thus the system actually reports the latter? Just speculating here, because I could see 768 core with hotclock on such a small chip, but having a hard time coping with 1536 o.O

And now some info that seems to talk about Hyper-threaded CUDA cores :O
I do not have any sources, neither I had seen this link before it was posted on Beyond3D.

Quote:

I think the details I want to tell opportunity again, NVIDIA's approach is that "to make as we think 'Hyper-Threading' Intel's seen, CUDA-Core free resources available other threading, increased performance per Core CUDA, lowered power consumption per performance to" (official NVIDIA).

http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.a ... 0306077%2F

tviceman · **Joined:** Sat Jan 16, 2010 5:02 pm **Posts:** 1148

Picao84 wrote:

I also have my doubts.. 1536 cores @1.4Ghz? 1536 cores with hotclock in such a small chip? Or maybe NVIDIA invented something like Hyperthreading, with 768 cores behaving almost like 1536, and thus the system actually reports the latter? Just speculating here, because I could see 768 core with hotclock on such a small chip, but having a hard time coping with 1536 o.O

And now some info that seems to talk about Hyper-threaded CUDA cores :O
I do not have any sources, neither I had seen this link before it was posted on Beyond3D.

Quote:

I think the details I want to tell opportunity again, NVIDIA's approach is that "to make as we think 'Hyper-Threading' Intel's seen, CUDA-Core free resources available other threading, increased performance per Core CUDA, lowered power consumption per performance to" (official NVIDIA).

http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.a ... 0306077%2F

Holy sh!t you might have called that one! Very nice!

apoppin · Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 1:00 pm

Picao84 wrote:

I also have my doubts.. 1536 cores @1.4Ghz? 1536 cores with hotclock in such a small chip? Or maybe NVIDIA invented something like Hyperthreading, with 768 cores behaving almost like 1536, and thus the system actually reports the latter? Just speculating here, because I could see 768 core with hotclock on such a small chip, but having a hard time coping with 1536 o.O

And now some info that seems to talk about Hyper-threaded CUDA cores :O
I do not have any sources, neither I had seen this link before it was posted on Beyond3D.

Quote:

I think the details I want to tell opportunity again, NVIDIA's approach is that "to make as we think 'Hyper-Threading' Intel's seen, CUDA-Core free resources available other threading, increased performance per Core CUDA, lowered power consumption per performance to" (official NVIDIA).

http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.a ... 0306077%2F

you are talking about this as the source, correct?
http://www.4gamer.net/games/120/G012093/20120306077/

We need a better translation

Picao84 · **Joined:** Sun Nov 07, 2010 9:49 am **Posts:** 39

apoppin wrote:

Picao84 wrote:

I also have my doubts.. 1536 cores @1.4Ghz? 1536 cores with hotclock in such a small chip? Or maybe NVIDIA invented something like Hyperthreading, with 768 cores behaving almost like 1536, and thus the system actually reports the latter? Just speculating here, because I could see 768 core with hotclock on such a small chip, but having a hard time coping with 1536 o.O

And now some info that seems to talk about Hyper-threaded CUDA cores :O
I do not have any sources, neither I had seen this link before it was posted on Beyond3D.

Quote:

I think the details I want to tell opportunity again, NVIDIA's approach is that "to make as we think 'Hyper-Threading' Intel's seen, CUDA-Core free resources available other threading, increased performance per Core CUDA, lowered power consumption per performance to" (official NVIDIA).

http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.a ... 0306077%2F

you are talking about this as the source, correct?
http://www.4gamer.net/games/120/G012093/20120306077/

We need a better translation

Yes, and yes. However, why would NVIDIA talk about Hyper-threading at all, if it wasnt relevant?

apoppin · Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 1:21 pm

i don't know and i am very eager to find out. That is why i asked for a better translation.
-- some things we are hearing with Kepler, i thought were coming with Maxwell.

Ocre · **Joined:** Mon Nov 22, 2010 5:22 am **Posts:** 2146

from September viewtopic.php?f=6&t=23440

Ocre wrote:

.........Kepler is more than a die shrunk fermi, I heard bits and pieces....if true its gonna be a step above where we vision this die shrink. Stuff like physx wont need another card at all, much improvements on throughput and wasted cycles. if true that is.

It wasnt being compared to hyperthreading then but the idea was this. The cuda cores spent a whole lot of times on wasted cycles. This was burning energy doing nothing, zip. cycles burning energy but cores with nothing to calculate. To improve performance per watt you need to keep the cores from wasting energy. This is a major focus. You will see nvidia implementing ways to keep their cuda cores crunching and eliminating wasted cycles. Its not specifically hyperthreading, as that is an intel term and solution. But it is the same idea that created hypertreading: keep the cores busy and reduce the wasted cycles. Threading is a great way to keep the cores with data at all times.

Eliminate wasted energy on cores with nothing to do. This is a major goal at nvidia, and it we could see solutions make it into kepler!!!!

grstanford · **Joined:** Sat Apr 24, 2010 11:19 am **Posts:** 4991

That sounds like an enhanced scheduler coupled with good gating to me.

apoppin · Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 6:22 pm

Probably a lot of cache also

i think you said that

in completely unrelated news ... my bags are packed
-- all carry on .. i'll be damned if i pay $50 (RT) to check a bag for a short flight
(hamster)

tviceman · **Joined:** Sat Jan 16, 2010 5:02 pm **Posts:** 1148

apoppin wrote:

Probably a lot of cache also

i think you said that

in completely unrelated news ... my bags are packed
-- all carry on .. i'll be damned if i pay $50 (RT) to check a bag for a short flight
(hamster)

I always try to fly with Southwest when I travel.

apoppin · Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 6:47 pm

i ain't paying for the ticket
-- United Airlines is fine

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