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Nvidia’s next GPU 28nm Kepler Release Date

posted July 8, 2011 by Saro Meena / 3 Comments

Nvidia completes the design of their next GPU Kepler

It’s been 9 months since Nvidia unveiled its roadmap for launching their next GPU which revealed that they were working on the next 2 Fermi successors who have code named Kepler and Maxwell. Nvidia has been working hard to meet its timetable and it informs us that it has completed the design of its GPUs Kepler, which will begin mass production later this year or early next, depending on the date that TSMC has ready its 28nm manufacturing process.

Kepler promises to double the computing power of double-precision GPGPU compared to current Fermi, and to provide a performance / watt 50% higher than Fermi, Nvidia has not revealed details on its new architecture, but it is expected that as the Current Fermi (GeForce GTX 400 and 500 Series) is used in at least 1 or 2 families of products (Geforce GTX 600 and 700 Series) that will be available from late 2011(Release Date info Updated) until late 2013 when Maxwell may make his appearance. Returning to Kepler, Nvidia has completed the design (known as Taped-Out), so no new features added with the exception of the base architecture optimizations. It is expected that within a few months after Nvidia reveals some details on this new architecture.

Release Date info Updated on July 5

Rumors, speculation and leaked information about the upcoming graphics cards on 28nm begins to flourish in full swing now that the new manufacturing technology from TSMC is not far away. But there is talk that we may see a slight delay when TSMC’s 28nm is not completely ready, something that can get NVIDIA’s upcoming Kepler architecture to pull out to early 2012.

Kepler, who, like Fermi’s named after a historical researcher, according to NVIDIA give 3 to 4 times higher performance per watt of 64-bit floating point operations with double precision. It was what we heard during the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference for almost a year ago. Kepler is not expected to be a whole new architecture but is based on Fermi.

Kepler is similar to AMD’s upcoming architecture South Island, which will be built on TSMC’s 28nm technology, but it seems that TSMC, as usual have a problem. These problems should be in the company’s yields on the new technology, the number of functioning circuits you get out of a Wafer-pad. This will cause problems for NVIDIA, which should be able to launch the first chips in late 2011 but it should be delayed to early 2012.

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