05-20-2016, 11:04 AM
(05-20-2016, 07:24 AM)SickBeast Wrote: Hey so going back to the OP, I'm guessing that the 17 billion transistor count is for big Pascal? The GTX 1080 has nowhere near that much, I don't even think it has half that. Perhaps big Pascal is the GPU that we should all be really excited about.
Nah, not that much - Tesla P100 (GP100) is already announced to have 15 billion trannies - a bit more than 2x that of GTX 1080. Die size is roughly twice as big, as well. It has HBM2 memory, but it's clocked at only 1400MHz and has the same 4096-bit total bus width, rather than 8192-bit as a few of the rumors were claiming. It's not bad, compared to 1000MHz HBM on the Fury cards - what's for sure is that it will have 16GB of RAM - perhaps even as much as 32GB for a special edition.