NVIDIA GK104 Due in March Branded as GeForce GTX 670 Ti
In consistent with our previous information, NVIDIA is going to launch its Kepler in March, according to the report from Sweclockers.
The source revealed that, NVIDIA GK104 will debut branded as GeForce GTX 670 Ti, whose launch time will be after CeBIT 2012 falling in the period of March 11 – March 31.
Earlier the report from SemiAccurate said that NVIDIA would have two variants of the GK104. The higher/lower GK104 editions will match with GTX 680/GTX 670, respectively. However, when it comes to the current news that GK104 will be branded as GTX 670 Ti, it seems that GTX 680 is possibly left for GK110.
As rumors suggested, GK104 will pack 1536 CUDA cores, 128 texture units and 32 ROPs. In addition, it features core frequency of 950MHz-1050MHz, 2GB GDDR5 memory with memory interface of 256-bit, as well as TDP of 225W. The pricing will be set around US$299, and its performance is expected to be higher than that of GTX 580 and HD 7950.
Additionally the flagship GK110 core won’t be released until Q3/Q4 2012, while low-end GK107 will launch in the month of March-April.
February 23rd, 2012 at 1:29 am
I figure the enthusiast perspective is to expect the best, that the “flagship” will be the highest end spec. But does anyone consider the business perspective? For instance, why bring out the big guns to a small fight?
Just about any review of HD7950 and HD7970 shows that in GPU-intensive situations, the performance between the two happens to match the ratio of stream processors (especially since they both have 32 ROP’s, 3GB Vram, 384-bit interface thus can have the same memory bandwidth). If the idea that one of the GK104 variants will be faster than HD7950, exactly how much more performance is needed to match HD7970? Not much, less than 10% and it is doable at the reference scale. Even if AMD were to push an HD7980 single-GPU, I think a GK104 would suffice, albeit a higher stock frequency. Therefore to counter a dual HD7970 = HD7990, a dual GK104 would work there too; and it wouldn’t use that much more power due to shared circuitry. Even GTX590′s 365W draw is 50% more than GTX580′s 244W draw, so a dual GK104 would be in the 330W neighborhood.
My point is that there is no need for a GK110 against any HD7000 part, it comes off as overkill; nVidia could and might even brand one of the GK104′s as “GTX680″. It isn’t unheard of, they did so with G92 since we never saw a G90 flagship because back then AMD couldn’t beat G80 without making a dual RV670; which nVidia countered with a dual G92.
Tentatively and IMO, GK110 and the upcoming GK112 are meant for HD8000, that Kepler may have been designed to scale through more than one series but everything depended on what AMD would come up with. This way they wouldn’t have to play catch up due to issues with their fabrication foundries and whatnot.
February 23rd, 2012 at 8:48 am
If Nvidia releases this card at 300 dollars, AMD will have serious troubles since his 7950 is overpriced and ¨probably¨ slower than this card, a HD 7870 would cost 300 USD (same price) and would be far slower than this card.
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:39 pm
PumpedUpKicks: since amd got the lead they presented the 7970 and 7950 at relatively high prices, but as soon as Nvidia parts come out they will suddenly drop prices. amd is known for giving notoriously good price drops. that’s the advantage of releasing products before competition
February 24th, 2012 at 1:15 pm
I dont know, if I were Nvidia I would be on the phone daily with global foundries asking why they fixed the 28nm process on AMD’s chips before theirs.
February 25th, 2012 at 12:34 am
Kohashuko: Global foundries belongs to amd
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