Nvidia's 'Pascal' set to feature HBM 2.0

Leaked slides from Nvidia's GTC Taiwan Presentation show HBM Memory in their Next-Gen GPU Range

 Nvidia's upcoming next-generation 'Pascal' is expected to feature HBM 2.0 (High-Bandwidth-Memory) in it's product line due to be released sometime in the first quarter of 2016. A leaked slide from Nvidia's GTC Taiwan 2015 presentation shows clearly an illustration of it's next generation GPU with HBM memory on the GPU die. According to the leaked slides, Nvidia will name it's HBM stacked memory as '3D Memory'.

The move to HBM by Nvidia makes sense as their main competitor AMD has recently released it's 'Fiji' range with HBM. If Nvidia were to include HBM 2.0 in it's upcoming GPU lineup, it will have a memory bandwidth of around 1 TB/s, which is double the speed of AMD's current generation 'Fiji' based GPUs.

A leaked slide showing Pascal's key features including '3D Memory'

Current rumors also indicate that Nvidia will include up to 16 GB of HBM 2.0 memory, however looking at the illustration on the slide, it's unlikely that this will be true as the picture shows the GPU with 4 stacked memory modules, AMD have the same setup with 1 GB of HBM on each stacked module, this would mean that each module would have to be 4 GB each. As HBM technology is at it's early stages, it's unlikely that 16 GB can be achieved.

What we do know is that Nvidia will most likely manufacture it's 'Pascal' GPU in 16nm FinFET process by TSMC.

Nvidia to Launch a Dual-GPU Graphics Card with 2 x GM200 'Maxwell' Chips

Nvidia's new graphics card will feature 2 x 'Maxwell' chips

Nvidia is set to launch it's first ever dual-GPU graphics card that will probably be the fastest graphics card on the market. The card will feature 2 of Nvidia's top end 'Maxwell' chips named the GM200. These chips currently power the GTX980 Ti and Titan X graphics cards. This is definitely a response to AMD's upcoming R9 Fury X2, a dual graphics card featuring the new 'Fiji' chip with HBM (High Bandwidth Memory).

It is known that Nvidia has had a secret press conference in New York City a week ago and has invited only select members of the press to showcase it's upcoming product.

What we do know is that the dual GM200 graphics card will feature double the amount of CUDA cores which can be up to a staggering 6144 CUDA cores and the memory should be at least on par with the Titan X with 12 GB of GDDR5 memory. Expect the power consumption to be high on the dual-GPU card, which should be around 400-500w TDP.

Source: wccftech.com