Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 and GeForce GTX 1070 To Be In Full Production? – Computex Unveiling?

NVIDIA will unveil their GeForce GTX 1000 series graphics card soon as they cards are already under full production. Both NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 and GeForce GTX 1070 (naming not finalized) will be successors to the GeForce GTX 980 and GeForce GTX 970 which were released two years ago in 2014. These graphics cards will be based on the latest

GTX 780 NEWS

NVIDIA will launch it a new flagship GeForce model with Kepler GK110 GPU — the GTX 780. Also the site is claiming that the release might take place even sooner than VR-Zone reported this week. The new GTX 780 would arrive later this year, or more likely, during the first months of 2013 – so this could be March too.

While the Tesla K20 GK110 had 7.1 billion transistors, its not believed that the GeForce card would feature the same specificaiton. The GK110 is both difficult and expensive to manufacture.
As a reminder the GK110 has 15 Streaming Multiprocessors with 2880 CUDA cores. The Tesla’s GPU was linked to a 384-bit interface.  So this might be changed in multiple ways. Most probably NVIDIA will reduce the number of processing units or manipulate the Raster Engine layout.– powered by updated Graphics Core Next architecture.

 

Nvidia returns $1 billion to shareholders

Nvidia told investors earlier at its annual analysts' day that it expects its Tegra mobile processor business to remain flat this year. They recovered after the buyback news, and were down just 0.5 percent at $12.77 in the afternoon.
Co-founder and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said he expects Nvidia's mobile processor business to remain flat this year as the company focuses on upcoming chips with high-speed LTE technology attractive to smartphone makers.
As consumers increasingly choose tablets and smartphones over personal computers, Nvidia, with a market capitalization of about $8 billion, has been looking for ways to diversify beyond its core business of designing graphics chips for PCs.
Huang told investors his company has sacrificed some sales of its Tegra mobile chips in the near term in order to focus on integrating Long Term Evolution (LTE) features on upcoming versions, making them compatible with high-end carrier networks.
Combined with a slumping PC industry, that strategy is putting pressure on Nvidia in the first half of 2013, Huang told analysts at a conference.
"We're confident that as we go into the second half, growth will return," he said. "How do we feel about the Tegra business? … This year Tegra will be about flat."
Nvidia will return the cash to shareholders this fiscal year via previously announced dividends - about $50 million a quarter - and additional share buybacks. The $1 billion also includes $100 million in share buybacks this quarter.by noel randewich

Nvidia Planning New corporate headquarters in Santa Clara.

NVIDIA has announced that it is planning on building a new corporate headquarters in Santa Clara.
Jen-Hsun Huang, the company’s CEO, says the current headquarters is “bursting at the seams” with employees, and “barely has a spare desk.”

NVIDIA’s new campus will be in the shape of a triangle, a shape that is the building block of NVIDIA’s business – computer graphics.

“The design harmonizes smart functionality and a shape that connects with and inspires our employees,” Mr. Huang said in a Wednesday blog post. “Efficient in every way, the design is thoughtful in its use of space, energy, and environment, and, of course, cost.”

“It will stand at the intersection of science and art, just as our work in visual computing does. It will be the symbol, the physical manifestation, of our vision for the company.”
Each building will be 500,000 square feet. The first building is expected to be occupied mid-2015, and the second will be build when growth requires it.sam reynolds

Nvidia’s 2,688 shader GeForce GTX Titan graphics card

The Nvidia GeForce GTX 690 is a hard card to beat.in most benchmarks its currently the best performing graphics card on the market,due to its inclusion of two Kepler GPUs. Nvidia isn’t happy relying on the GTX 690 as its top performing card for too much longer, though, as the next graphics card it is set to launch has just leaked.

The new graphics card carries the name GeForce GTX Titan, will be marketed as the “world’s most powerful graphics card,” and is expected to launch at some point between February 18 and 26. What may surprise you is the fact Nvidia has managed to come close to outperforming the GTX 690, but using just a single Kepler GPU.

The GPU being used is the 28nm GK110, which has been clocked at 875MHz and boasts 2,688 CUDA cores. There’s also 6GB of GDDR5 RAM using a 384-bit bus, and the expected TDP is thought to be in excess of 235W. Two versions of the Titan are expected from ASUS and EVGA, with the ASUS card thought to be clocked even higher at 915MHz. For comparison, the GTX 690 had 4GB RAM and 3,072 shaders.

New Nvidia Drivers 290.53

This driver package supports GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, 300, 400, and 500-series desktop GPUs as well as ION desktop GPUs.

New in 290.53

Optimizations for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

• Increases performance by up to 25% in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim vs. 290.36 drivers (measured with GeForce GTX 560 at 19x10 Ultra – Indoor Scene). Results will vary depending on your GPU, system configuration, and in-game location.
• Updates the NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim to a higher performance profile.
• Added new 3D Vision laser sight /crosshair options to better match Skyrim crosshairs.
• For a full Skyrim tweak guide, visit GeForce.com.

NVIDIA SLI

• Adds SLI profiles for Trine 2, WRC 2: FIA World Rally Championship 2011, and Afterfall: InSanity.

3D Vision

• Fixes issues with Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 not launching into 3D Vision mode
• Added new 3D Vision laser sight /crosshair options to better match The Elder Scrolls Skyrim crosshairs
• Added or updated the following 3D Vision game profiles:
• AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for the Awesome – rated Good
• The Adventures of Tintin: The Game – rated Excellent
• Assassin’s Creed: Revelations – rating changed to Fair
• Driver San Francisco – updated settings to work better in 3D Vision
• Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – updated in-game compatibility message
• Hard Reset – updated in-game compatibility message. FXAA x2 and x4 are now supported by the game
• Ignite – rated Good
• Jane's Advanced Strike Fighters – rated Fair
• Jurassic Park: The Game – rated Good
• Orcs Must Die! – rated Good
• PAYDAY The Heist – rated Poor
• PT Boats - Knights of the Sea – rated Good
• PT Boats - South Gambit – rated Good
• Race 07 – updated in-game compatibility message
• Race Room – rated Good
• Serious Sam 3: BFE – rated Poor
• SkyDrift – rated Good
• Star Wars: The Old Republic – rated Good
• Stronghold 3 – rated Good
• Take on Helicopters – rated Fair
• Trine 2 – rated 3D Vision Ready
• Waves – rated Excellent

Key Bug Fixes

• Fixes some random instances of triangular artifacts when playing Battlefield 3 (fix is now enabled for GeForce 400 and 500 series GPUs).
• Fixes a default panel resolution/ timing bug in 290.36.

Other Details

• Supports multiple languages and APIs for GPU computing: CUDA C, CUDA C++, CUDA Fortran, OpenCL, DirectCompute, and Microsoft C++ AMP.
• Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI technology on DirectX 9, DirectX 10, DirectX 11, and OpenGL, including 3-way SLI, Quad SLI, and SLI support on SLI-certified Intel and AMD motherboards.

New Nvidia Drivers 290.36

By Andrew Burnes
 new NVIDIA GeForce 290.36 beta drivers are now available to download. Recommended for gamers diving into Batman: Arkham City , the drivers also add official support for Ambient Occlusion in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Furthermore, a Battlefield 3 fix is included to combat the random appearance of triangular artifacts, a SLI shadow bug is stamped out in Crysis 2, and Settlers 7 corruption is eliminated.

On the tech side, the 290.36 beta drivers enable NVIDIA Surround on newly-released X79 SLI-certified motherboards, and native 3D Vision DisplayPort 1.1 connections are now possible on BenQ XL2420T and BenQ XL2420TX monitors.

Ambient Occlusion

As mentioned, the 290.36 beta drivers now allow for the use of Ambient Occlusion directly through the control panel in the two most popular titles of the moment: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.

Nvidia Gtx 600 Series And Rumored Specs

As you already know that in September 2010, Nvidia’s CEO Jen-Hsun Huang introduced us to a CUDA GPU Roadmap that laid out his future plans. As of this moment, they (whole team) are working very hard to process Nvidia GTX 600 Series for the big mass.

So, here are some key features of Kepler (code name for rumoured GTX 600 series) cards:


•TSMC 28 nm fabrication technology
•It is theoretically 2 to 3 times faster than current graphics cards based on Fermi architecture (codename) by Nvidia.
•512-bit bus processing.
•DirectX 11.1
•Open GL 5.0 or may be upgraded to this version later.
•1024 CUDA cores
•Release date – November 2011




The features listed above are very close to the real deal and most of them are already officially announced by Nvidia. Now, to sum up this conversation, I would like add few points.

· GTX 600 series cards are supposed to run cooler than Fermi because of smaller die.

· Double CUDA cores will make processes faster than ever that use CUDA cores for calculations. Most common applications include video transcoding and image rendering.

· Open GL is now supported by most image and video rendering softwares, like Photoshop, an enhanced version of OpenGL will make working with high definition images faster and more precise.

· Although, DirectX 11.1 is basically Microsoft Windows feature, but we can not exclude the possibility of a GTX 600 card supporting it already.

· I have witnessed enhanced graphics when I moved from Windows Vista Direct X 10 to Windows 7 DirectX 11 and I am sure others have experienced the same.

· However, moving from DX 11.0 to DX 11.1 may not be that exciting. Even then, it will clear the way for the most awaited release of DirectX 12.0.

· Nvidia GTX 600 cards will be facing a direct competition with AMD’s Southern Islands (codename) graphics card which are also based on 28nm architecture and supposed to be released earlier than GTX 600.

· The release date Nvidia GTX 600 series is not that much clear but if you surf online and gather some information, you will come to know that it might be released in the fourth quarter of 2011 or by first quarter of 2012.

Future Plans of Nvidia for Maxwell Graphics card

· There is no information about Maxwell cards on the web right now that could add some value to this discussion and since Maxwell graphics cards are being developed by the green graphics card giant within its deep layers (Crysis 2 metaphor), we may not see it for an entire year or two.

· As for this moment, I can safely tell you that Maxwell graphics card are supposed to be 8 times better than Tesla, 7.5 times better than Fermi and 2.6 times better than Kepler (as a quick math would suggest).