There was enough confusion on the graphics card market to wonder if NVIDIA will even manage to release the high-end Maxwell graphics processing units this year, but it seems that it will happen.
According to SweClockers, the GeForce GTX 880 and GTX 870 will be released in October or in November this year (2014).
However, there still is no sign that TSMC will have the 20nm manufacturing process ready by then. It was why some were worried that the Maxwell architecture would be delayed to 2015.
However, it's looking more and more likely that NVIDIA will compromise and build the GM200 graphics processing units on the 28nm manufacturing technology instead.
The GM100 have been totally canceled, and will probably stay that way until TSMC gets its act together and makes 20nm production lines work.
Anyway, the GM204 will succeed GK104 and power the GeForce GTX 870 or 880, backed by 8 GB of GDDR5 VRAM memory; it might also be a mobile GPU, though. You never know. Regardless, the memory interface is of 256 bits.
ARM cores will be integrated in the GeForce GTX 800 graphics as well, though their role wasn't specifically stated. Either way, NVIDIA will do a lot of things different from how it dealt with the Maxwell-based GTX 750 / 750 Ti earlier this year.
According to SweClockers, the GeForce GTX 880 and GTX 870 will be released in October or in November this year (2014).
However, there still is no sign that TSMC will have the 20nm manufacturing process ready by then. It was why some were worried that the Maxwell architecture would be delayed to 2015.
However, it's looking more and more likely that NVIDIA will compromise and build the GM200 graphics processing units on the 28nm manufacturing technology instead.
The GM100 have been totally canceled, and will probably stay that way until TSMC gets its act together and makes 20nm production lines work.
Anyway, the GM204 will succeed GK104 and power the GeForce GTX 870 or 880, backed by 8 GB of GDDR5 VRAM memory; it might also be a mobile GPU, though. You never know. Regardless, the memory interface is of 256 bits.
ARM cores will be integrated in the GeForce GTX 800 graphics as well, though their role wasn't specifically stated. Either way, NVIDIA will do a lot of things different from how it dealt with the Maxwell-based GTX 750 / 750 Ti earlier this year.