The professional segment is no longer just "high-margin", it's also high-revenue. Last quarter, the "Professional Solutions" business unit (quadros and teslas) brought in $221M, while all the rest of their GPU products brought in $621M. There's no way, no way at all, that the GF100-based products were a third of their consumer sales. I'd wager that all GTX models aren't a third of their consumer sales. The consumer GPUs really aren't needed to support the professional business anymore.
Nvidia BigK GK110 Kepler Speculation Thread
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The professional segment is no longer just "high-margin", it's also high-revenue. Last quarter, the "Professional Solutions" business unit (quadros and teslas) brought in $221M, while all the rest of their GPU products brought in $621M. There's no way, no way at all, that the GF100-based products were a third of their consumer sales. I'd wager that all GTX models aren't a third of their consumer sales. The consumer GPUs really aren't needed to support the professional business anymore.
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In terms of unit volume, I wouldn't be surprised if the 580/570 still sold more units than their Quadro and Tesla variants.
However, in terms of revenue I wouldn't be surprised if the Quadro and Tesla variants brought in more revenue.
The consumer side still serves as a good avenue to bleed off excess supply (more wafers = cheaper per wafer costs I'd imagine) as well as a good area to dump salvage chips. And additional revenue even at significantly lower margins is still additional revenue. But it probably is true that they don't absolutely need to sell their big die GPUs in the consumer market to make a profit anymore.
I suspect that's going to be the main fuction of the consumer version of GK110 (assuming there is one). As I wouldn't be at all surprised if GK110 was only minorly faster than GK114 (assuming there's a GK114) in the majority of gaming workloads. All pure speculation, of course.
It may or may not end up like this.Regards,
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IIRC most of that revenue comes from the Quadro line. And you should have a look what kind of GPUs are sold there. That is quite a bit more than the top of the line model (they sell each crappy and slow GPU there too, they are just more expensive than the consumer versions). So I doubt that more than a third of the professional solutions revenue actually comes from GF100/110.
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Considering the brutal specs that are being bandied about, I think that's very much a given.
And yes, it will be very interesting to see...!
I myself would like to see proper pre-emptive task switching support on GPUs, dunno how much extra hardware that would require though, probably quite a lot since there hasn't been any such moves made so far, but it would be quite helpful in a lot of situations, if GPGPU is to move out of the fringe rut it's been stuck in so far.I thought the general directions for GCN and Nvidia's compute architectures had preemption planned as one of the next steps, if not buried somewhere in current hardware.
For Nvidia this is the case, but they are in a bad position with their chips in 28nm ( not their cards, the GK104 is excellent ) , for an unknown reason it seems they have not been capable to transit fermi to Kepler in this "first" ( i insist on this first ) generation of 28nm...
Lets take the fact... the GK110 will be released before the initial Kepler GK100... the GK104 is pushed to his limit for be the flagship... The good of Kepler have been pushed in marketing like a crazy, asking to forget the bad.
The GK110 will appear, but it is nearly clear after the compute conference of Nvidia they are not specially ( or maybe not at all ) aimed at a "mainstream" flagship ( understand a new flagship in gaming cards ) .
This will certainly bring to the born of an hybrid card taken from the GK110 at this end of the year.. Something in between.
I have follow the conference, and... nothing.. i was imagine like during the conference of GCN in June 2011 we will get some solid infos of what is the so called " BigK" architecture ... nothing have come .. We have been overflowed of future possibilies. but nothing solid..
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IIRC, for AMD compute preemption is planned for 2013 and graphics preemption is planned for 2014.
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thanks. I was going to point out they aim for relatively high volume, just like other vendors do build big, non-consumer chips. POWER7, sparc etc.
I can see even african universities buying BigK cards. just stuff one card in a cheap PC with 32GB memory, add another card later to upgrade. it's easy.
though I have to wonder which is easier to program for, or be able to run more simulations or stuff. GPGPU or small cluster?
for about quadro 6000 price, you could in the near future run four consumer Haswell PCs, connected to each other with cheap dedicated 10Gb RJ45 ethernet. (one card with four ports in each PC)
great, I've been willing for this to happen, I would like to run some multiplayer gaming for at least four players, from a single GPU
. with multi-seat and thin clients.I have a feeling this might require firegl/quadro drivers and windows server though, linux hacking will get there but with lower performance.
Why not just use 4 lower cost GPUs if that is your use case?great, I've been willing for this to happen, I would like to run some multiplayer gaming for at least four players, from a single GPU
I have a feeling this might require firegl/quadro drivers and windows server though, linux hacking will get there but with lower performance.
I guess it should be the driver's problem. If you put it in a single computer, than you'd better just use 1~2 GPU(s)
Blazkowicz
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lazyness and it isn't really guaranteed to work for now. nowadays you can even use a real graphics card from a virtual machine, on Intel server hardware or AMD server or consumer hardware but from what I've read it breaks down after one card. or some can't get their storage card recognised etc. ; patch this if you run an AMD card, etc.
the tech, or the software and support are still in their infancy. I'm waiting it out a bit, I want to tinker with this but I'm sure I will get quirks and hurdles and that it will make me totally mad.
Blazkowicz
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I'm pretty sure it will be a quadro feature.
nowadays you can run one instance of windows on one big PC and have it run the show for 40 $100 thin client terminals, the tech is fully included in XP pro and 7 pro but you need a Server windows with a lot of licensing.
so yeah, one bigK running the show for the whole household, beamed on desktop, tablets, laptops, you get what I mean
you could even store it in the attic or basement, or just in the most bad ass desktop with another GPU. a private Onlive [strike]cloud[/strike] network.not sure they will give it away and lose revenue on more, smaller consumer GPUs.
well if someday I have a big household with a nice income and many kids I'll be tempted to do this and pay the big microsoft and quadro licenses, just because I want to make a point.
I would like to run some multiplayer gaming for at least four players, from a single GPU
I have a feeling this might require firegl/quadro drivers and windows server though, linux hacking will get there but with lower performance.
Why would you need preemption for that?
Our rendering servers delivers the highest throughput with 2 instances (of our application, ie 1 d3d9 context pr instance) per graphics card, and adding another card with it's own load can barely affects performance (ie it scales nicely).
This is Windows7 (for the particular machine with 2 cards, but 2008R2 works the same) and radeons.
For geforces things really slow down with several contexts per card though (and the cpu load is much higher, and drivers breaks down after a few weeks, so that's not what we use in servers anyway...).
Sure you could have more fine grained multitasking than this with preemption - but for normal realtime loads it shouldn't be necessary. Don't know how fine grained it is on the radeons, but it's more than once per present() at least.
Yeah, seems to be some problems with acceleration and using the 2nd card from remote or service contexts - will have another look at that soon. (traditionally our app is running from an auto logged in local user to get the acceleration).
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Is the Tesla K10 Kepler based?
http://www.brightsideofnews.com/new...solutions2c-oil--gas-and-finance-go-wild.aspx
Is the Tesla K10 Kepler based?
http://www.brightsideofnews.com/new...solutions2c-oil--gas-and-finance-go-wild.aspx
Blazkowicz
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wow. it's a GK104 based Tesla, if you follow the link.
that explains why there was to be a conference introducing a Tesla but with no GK110 on the horizon, and also why the GTX 690 has such an usual build quality.
I knew there was something wrong with forum comments (not especially on this place) that said, "gtx 680 is bad for GPGPU".
that explains why there was to be a conference introducing a Tesla but with no GK110 on the horizon, and also why the GTX 690 has such an usual build quality
.I knew there was something wrong with forum comments (not especially on this place) that said, "gtx 680 is bad for GPGPU".
If it, it must be GK104, the head of Tesla department himself said that they're on track for Q4 launch on the big part
Blazkowicz
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it does have ECC, ECC on Tesla or Quadro is just a software trick. but that means there's ECC in the L1 and L2 so they planned for the eventuality.
DP is there, it's just slow. I believe even the low end geforces support DP. but you can read about it there yourself
http://www.brightsideofnews.com/new...esla-card3b-8gb-ecc-gddr52c-weak-dp-rate.aspx
basically, as even hugely fast FP32 can be useful some industries appeared to say "shut up and take my money".
DP is there, it's just slow. I believe even the low end geforces support DP. but you can read about it there yourself
http://www.brightsideofnews.com/new...esla-card3b-8gb-ecc-gddr52c-weak-dp-rate.aspx
basically, as even hugely fast FP32 can be useful some industries appeared to say "shut up and take my money".
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