NVIDIA's upcoming Pascal GPU is creating much hype in the computer graphics industry. Many are expecting the company to reveal their latest product at the upcoming GPU Technology Conference (GTC) and that it will be released during Computex 2016.
The GTC 2016 will be happening from April 4 to April 7 at Silicon Valley. NVIDIA's CEO and co-founder, Jen-Hsun Huang, will be one of the keynote speakers, and several other high-ranking personnel from NVIDIA will be in attendance. The executives may reportedly start marketing Pascal's architecture to manufacturers and guests at the upcoming event.
It is also speculated that the latest video graphics architecture will then be ready by end of May, in time for Taiwan's Computex. It is rumored that the technology will be initially featured on notebook graphics cards while its desktop counterpart is expected to follow soon.
If this proves to be true, the GTC event may witness the first demonstration of the new NVIDA Pascal GPU through a video card prototype.
The NVIDIA Pascal is expected to double or triple the performance level of the current generation of video cards with its 16nm FinFET manufacturing process, a very large 4096-bit memory bus interface, and superb NV Link capabilities. It is said to contain 17 billion transistors. In a more simplified way of saying, it is a "monster" graphic card.
The huge increase in performance in the upcoming NVDIA Pascal GPU is attributed to several factors, including high bandwidth memory (HBM), 16FP computer support, and the NV-Link technology, which is up to 12 times faster than PCIE 3.0, as WCCFTECH reported.
On a side note, many technology experts do agree that the upcoming NVDIA Pascal GPU is not for gaming purposes, which many initially believed. The new architecture will be beneficial to deep learning computers or HPC (high-performance computing) like supercomputer and servers. The new technology will give out better computer performance, which is an entirely different thing from gaming performance. However, no data is available yet on what NVIDIA's new GPU can do in a PC gaming scenario, as discussed on a thread on Linustechtips forum which a user started last year.
WCCFTECH also uploaded a video explaining the upcoming NVIDIA Pascal GPUs.
