NVIDIA aims for 3 TFLOPS with next high-end GPU [Archive]

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qube

10-10-07, 06:48 AM

http://www.nordichardware.com/news,6911.html

DRen72

10-10-07, 09:17 AM

Well, read that last line carefully...

"Three TFLOPS could very well be a reference to Tri-SLI, or a dual-GPU card, but the source was rather specific in that NVIDIA is saying the circuit will be capable of 3 TFLOPS. We'll just have to wait and see."

qube

10-10-07, 09:42 AM

i did

walterman

10-10-07, 09:51 AM

Sounds unreal atm.

Maybe with a Tri-SLI of those sandwich cards with 2 gpus ... (3 cards * 2 gpus * 128SP * 2GHz * 2 (MADD) = +- 3GFlops).

DRen72

10-10-07, 03:37 PM

While 3 TFLOPS sounds great (of course), it doesn't if we have to buy three cards.

qube

10-10-07, 05:03 PM

we should hope that it will be one card

nightmare beta

10-10-07, 05:34 PM

they need to aim for less heat, and better iq and drivers not performance.

nvidia and ati's products currently have many problems. performance is not one of them.

SH0DAN

10-11-07, 01:36 AM

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/10/10/nvidia-g92-little-g80-65nm

AirRaid

10-13-07, 05:20 PM

This really isn't new. the article is recent, but the performance claims aren't really new. because it's not for a single GPU.

Remember some months ago, articles appeared reporting that Nvidia's highend refresh of G80, thought to be G92 (but we now know it's not G92) was meant to reach nearly 1 TFLOP of programmable floating point performance.

http://www.beyond3d.com/content/news/230
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/05/24/nvidia-claims-g92-will-be-a-1-teraflop-beast

we have yet to see this highend G80 refresh. I will continue to call it "NV55" until Nvidia decides to release a name or codename.

it's not hard to imagine that "NV55 Triple SLI" will reach roughly a peak of ~3 TFLOPs, if a single NV55 (G90, G9X or whatever) is ~1TFLOP.