Recent content by dnavas

Yeah, I figure the fp16 mods were practice for the fp32/fp64 integration. Failure there was an option, it won't be for fp32/64, though. If the fp16 mods aren't in the P0x cores, that might say something interesting about hedging. But, we'll see -- path and energy optimization might trump...

Yeah, the reason I asked is that it seemed ... interesting that the number of fp32 units per SM went down, while the number of (functionally) fp16 units per SM remained the same -- the picture would be essentially the same had the SM shown twice the number of fp16 units and called out issue...

Perhaps issue rate is being used as a proxy (or physical layout is being used as a proxy). We've been talking about the fp32 units being virtually split for fp16 math, but one would not claim that there are twice the fp16 units running at twice the rate, or 4x total throughput. It's possible...

The great thing about rounding is just how many strategies you have -- RoundingMode in Java has ceiling, floor, half-up, half-down, half-even (banker's), and then there's whatever that bastardization that java's Math.round uses which isn't any of those. And the great thing about having all...

I thought that 24 DLOPS was just AVG(16 16-bit ops, 32 8-bit ops) or some nonsense like that?

I know we live in an era where we wouldn't want to consider an opposing opinion in the middle of a good rant, but when I read: ...I did not come away thinking that Charlie had concocted extremetech, or that someone else thought so. Perhaps a well-place preposition would have helped, but I...

(Whoops, scooped by pjb :) ) Runs on Windows (including Windows 7 & 8 as well as 10 if you somehow avoid Microsoft's aggressive upgrade strategy), Linux, and Android

Nothing would please me more, and I'd think NV would be worried about what AMD is doing with HBM, so they may be willing to err on the side of aggressiveness. That said, I'd more expect Erista to ship in 2H15 than Pascal (maybe you were hearing about Parker, not Pascal?). ...and that CPUs...

Well, let me muddy the waters: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814132033 970 w/2GB? and a power supply? This is probably not reference TDP, but I bet it will never ship in this configuration given the restricted airflow on the way out (I don't see that config on...

Well, they'd be a lot more likely to do that if they need to to keep the performance crown, so a lot of it depends on what AMD brings to the table. 551mm^2 for GM200. :sigh: No.

Drat, yes, I was thinking of ECC and DP rather than the addl features of GK110, as I assumed that the former would represent the vast majority of the additional area. Now that you force me to consider it, though, I'm not sure to what degree that represents reality.

Seems like some intelligent guessing. 50% higher bandwidth gets you a 384bit interface, 96 ROPs (assuming GM204 ratios carry over), and 24 SMMs (similarly). Could be you guess that an SMM or two get switched off. The only problem is that if GK110/GK104 ratios carry over, the 40-50% increases...

I'm wondering if NV is moving to more of an Intel-style tick/tock release style, given that they're stuck on 28nm. So, Maxwell on 28nm, then a shrink, then Pascal on the same process.... Under that assumption, either they'll have process issues, or they'll have new features, but not both...

Yeah, that card is neither small, nor priced to move. I'm not sure it'd even fit in my case! Going to have to check out Palit or PNY or some-such. Unfortunately all mini-DP, but :shrug:

Well, if I could find one with three DP on it :> [Oh, and I'll take that sweet reference cooler as well? Pretty please? It's my birthday? :sigh: ]