Nvidia Annouces new Volta GPU for 2015.

http://www.techspot.com/news/52003-f...bandwidth.html

http://blogs.nvidia.com/2013/03/nvid...idias-roadmap/


http://techreport.com/news/24529/nvi...e-on-chip-dram

"In Volta, due after Maxwell, memory modules will be piled atop one another and placed on the same silicon substrate as the GPU core itself – a radical idea called ‘stacked DRAM’ – giving these new GPUs access to up to one terabyte per second of bandwidth. That’s enough to move the equivalent of a full Blu-Ray disc worth of data through a chip in just 1/50th of a second. “Unbelievable stuff,” Huang said."

Some pretty exciting stuff.

Volta will be the first PC GPU card that is capable of 1TB bandwidth AND will use rumored to be GDDR6 RAM!

Pretty excited to hear more about it, Maxwell and the GeForce 700 series. And yes, even the AMD Sea Islands line that Xbox Next will use.

Because we're finally going to see the PC graphical leaps that have been longed for since 2009.

I see you just can't resist the urge to make up stuff. No where in any of those articles does it mention GDDR6 RAM.

Another article talking about the possiblilty of Nvidia using GDDR6 for RAM.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6846/n...or-beyond-2014

Stacked GDDR5 is incapable of a max Terabyte performance. According to this source: http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/...emory-capacity

Nvidia is disabling GDDR5 for use in this line for a cheaper alternative.

Neither of those articles mention GDDR6. Nor do the mention GDDR5 being incapable nor do they mention disabling GDD5. Go read them more carefully.

I wonder if this will be the GeF 8000 series jump. When the 8800 came out everyone shit their pants in terms of the things performance. Like the ATi RAGE series, or the 5000 series from Nvidia. Since the 8800 it has only been small increments in rise of performance. However I remember when the Fermi architecture came out and it wasn't the giant leap that I was expecting. So let's hope this isn't another... that.

Nvidia's refreshes are 2 years not one.

We're not seeing Volta until 2016 at earliest. Considering DDR4 is currently under mass production for sale next year to consumers, and that GDDR6 was in the process of being finalized about 6 months ago, will run cooler, have better transfer speeds, and come in higher densities per module(Like DDR3 to DDR4), I'd frankly be completely disappointed if they still opted for GDDR5 around 2016-2017 for any mid to high end card.