Nvidia Maxwell Gtx 780 Delayed till 2014

Originally, Kepler GPU architecture was scheduled to debut in 2011, with the successor codenamed Maxwell coming in 2013. We were not surprised to hear that Maxwell, tied to a 20nm process node - is getting delayed as well.

"The battle with manufacturing nodes continues." - This would be a summary of what our sources told us over the past couple of weeks. No manufacturer is having an easy time, and even Intel - known for its manufacturing excellence - pulled its 22nm Low Power node deeply into 2013, debuting about half a year later.

When it comes to Nvidia, the company is heavily engaged on increasing the yields for its products. With Kepler, Nvidia shifted to a new die strategy, and even though we've heard more rumors about the GK106 chips, the fact of the matter is that Kepler will remain a three GPU line-up: GK104 for performance, GK107 for mobile and entry-level desktop and the GK110 for high-end computational and visualization parts.

Ultimately, GK104 served as the GTX 660/670/680/690, Quadro K5000 and Tesla K10, GK107 serves in numerous low-power mobile and desktop designs. GK110 will make a public appearance only in December as the Tesla K20, with a yet unannounced amount of video memory (according to our sources, NV is trying to secure different packaging to enable 12GB of GDDR5 memory, but realistically - prototype boards we saw utilized "just" 6GB).

Naturally, all of these movements don't hold much promise for the next generation GeForce cards. Given that the Maxwell, GM1xx parts won't be available until the first half of 2014, the GeForce and Quadro parts should continue to rely on refreshed/renamed GK104/107/110 parts. The GK110 is planned to expand and become available as the Quadro K6000 6GB, for those that require ultimate performance on a single piece of silicon.

In case you've doubted it, Maxwell is a 20nm part, capable of being manufactured in GlobalFoundries, IBM, Samsung and TSMC - 20nm Gate-Last HKMG will equalize between TSMC and Common Platform alliance - a move Nvidia and Qualcomm cannot wait to see come to frutition.

Availability of that part however, will not come sooner than the first half of next year. As far as the GeForce GTX 700 Series is concerned, the parts should repeat the same cadence as this year's lineup. However, the newer revised parts should offer further clock improvements, to the level where they can offer between 25-30% higher performance and power efficiency, while the company is working on parts based on the Maxwell GPU architecture, which should drive 2014 as one of key years in Nvidia's history.

Maxwell will be the first top-to-bottom GPU architecture, powering everything from Tegra to Tesla. Furthermore, Maxwell should be the first GPU part to integrate the 64-bit ARM core which carries the codename "Project Denver". Putting the typically-bandwidth starved ARM cores onto an internal bus which in GPUs goes beyond 1.5TB/s should significantly change the playing game - a GPU capable of booting an operating system, regardless of what lies currently in public documents.

All in all, 2013 will see AMD's Sea Islands fight first versus Nvidia's Kepler refresh, and only then against the Maxwell. Real battle will come only in 2014.

Source: http://vr-zone.com

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Most Powerful Graphics Technology NVIDIA Keplar Just Got Much More Affordable

When NVIDIA debuted video cards featuring its powerful Kepler architecture earlier this year, PC gamers around the world stood up and cheered. Then they got quiet when they realised their only options were the $US500+ GTX 680 card or the GTX 690, packing dual-Kepler graphics processing units for around $US1000.

PC players drooled over these pricey pieces of hardware. Many bit the bullet and bought one or two or three of each. Still others patiently waited for a more affordable option. Well, their wait is over now. The GeForce GTX 660 Ti is now available for an incredibly reasonable $US299.

That relatively modest amount of cash will secure gamers a card featuring all the bells and whistles that make the Kepler tech so damn impressive. It’s power efficient, its lightning fast. and it’s fully capable of doing amazing things to a game like The Secret World, which utilises the card’s TXAA anti-aliasing process to smooth jagged edges to CGI-film quality.

The GeForce GTX 660 Ti is NVIDIA’s new flagship graphics card, the one the company expects will become the standard for years to come, offering nearly twice the power of 2010′s GTX 470 and 3.3 times that of 2008′s GTX 260, both of which are still in heavy rotation in PC gaming circles.

To illustrate this point, NVIDIA taps on of the most eagerly-anticipated PC games of the year, Borderlands 2.

If a simple FPS comparison chart featuring Borderlands 2 is enough to send you shopping, get this — purchasing the GTX 660 Ti from NVIDIA’s online retail partners will score buyers a free copy of the game, giving them something shiny to show off their brand new video card with.

The specs aren’t as impressive as its more expensive big brothers, of course, but it’s more than enough to generate a chart that compares it favourably to the AMD Radeon HD7870.
As well as the Radeon HD7950, a card slightly above its pay grade.
But these are just slides from a PowerPoint presentation. If you want a true measure of the GTX 660 Ti, slap one in your machine. They should be available all over the damn place today.

Source: kotaku.com

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Maximus workstation platform launch by NVIDIA

The technology deployed in the Maximus will automatically assign visualisation and simulation or rendering work to the accurate processor

NVIDIA has launched a new Kepler GPU architecture featured Maximus workstation platform, which is offered with Quadro K5000 or with Tesla K20 GPUs.

The new Kepler architecture supported GPU platform is expected to enhance performance and efficiency of the workstation used by manufacturing, visual effects and oil exploration professionals.

The company has earlier launched a Maximus platform, which allows the workstation users to simultaneously perform complex analysis and visualisation on a single machine.

Initially, Maximus was a single system which would manage interactive graphics and the compute-intensive number crunching required to simulate or render them, further resulting in accelerated workflows.

In the new Maximus, compute work is allocated for running the new NVIDIA Tesla K20 GPU computing accelerator, which will free up the new NVIDIA Quadro K5000 GPU to handle graphics functions, the company said.

The technology deployed in the Maximus will automatically assign visualisation and simulation or rendering work to the accurate processor.
Features of NVIDIA's new Quadro K5000 GPU include bindless textures, which allow the users to access over 1 million textures directly in memory while reducing CPU overhead.

The FXAA/TXAA film-style anti-aliasing feature will enhance image quality, while its frame buffer capacity is increased to 4GB and a new PCIe-3 bus interconnect has been added which speeds up data movement by 2 times over PCIe-2.

A new display engine which can drive up to four displays at the same time with a single K5000 and a display port 1.2 supports resolutions of up to 3840x2160 @60Hz.

The another variant NVIDIA Tesla K20 GPU features SMX streaming multiprocessor technology which offers for up to a 3 times performance per watt advantage, while the dynamic parallelism and hyper-Q GPU technologies ease parallel programming and improve performance.

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AMD and Nvidia Gonna launch new pro-grade GPUs & APUs

Pro-graphics fans have received some good news this week, as both Nvidia and AMD have outed their latest-generation high-end products for the workstation market - including the first workstation-class accelerated processing units (APUs.)

First, Nvidia's announcement: the Quadro K5000. Based on the latest Kepler GPU, the Quadro K5000 includes 1,536 CUDA cores and 4GB of GDDR5 on a 256-bit memory bus. The result, Nvidia claims, is a card capable of pushing 2,150 gigaflops in single-precision mode or 90 gigaflops in double-precision mode. Coupled with support for DVI-I, DVI-D and DisplayPort monitors - with the option to drive up to four independent displays from a single board - the company is clearly hoping to win over pro-graphics types with the two-slot 122W TDP design.

As befits a Kepler board, the Quadro K5000 also includes bindless texture support for referencing over a million in-memory textures with reduced CPU overhead and TXAA anti-aliasing - both features missing from prior Quadro products.

If you were thinking about adding a Quadro board to your next build, however, the price may be something of a stumbling block: while UK pricing has yet to be confirmed, Nvidia has given the Quadro K5000 a US recommended retail price of $2,249 (around £1,440 excluding taxes) ahead of its planned release in October. For those who prefer pre-builds, Nvidia has announced that Maximums systems - combining a Tesla K20 processor with the Quadro K5000 - will be available from the likes of Dell, Fujitsu, HP, Lenovo and Supermicro by the end of the year.

AMD's offerings start with a quartet of FirePro boards based on the Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture. The entry point for the new boards is the FirePro W500, a Pitcairn-based system which packs 2GB of GDDR5 on a 256-bit memory bus with a claimed performance of 1,270 gigaflops single-precision or 80 gigaflops double-precision. A single-slit design, the board includes two DisplayPort outputs and a single dual-link DVI port, and boasts a fairly sedate TDP of just 75W.

For those who demand more, the FirePro W7000 doubles the memory to 4GB of GDDR5, boosts performance to 2,430 gigaflops single-precision and 150 gigaflops double-precision, includes four DisplayPort outputs and has a 150W TDP in - again - a single-slot design.

Moving from the Pitcairn boards to the Tahiti boards, things get bulkier: the FirePro W8000 has a 189W TDP and a hefty dual-slot design, but manages 3,230 gigaflops single-precision and 810 gigaflops double-precision. If that's not enough, the top-end FirePro W9000 includes 6GB of GDDR5 memory on a 384-bit memory bus, packs six mini-DisplayPorts and boasts 3,990 gigaflops single-precision and 1,000 gigaflops double-precision performance - but has a massive 274W TDP.

Pricing for AMD's standalone FirePro range starts fairly low, but rapidly ramps up: US RRPs for the range have been given as $599 for the FirePro W5000, $899 for the FirePro W7000, $1,599 for the FirePro W8000 and a whopping $3,999 for the FirePro W9000.

Alongside the standalone FirePro boards came AMD's announcement of two FirePro APU chips. The first, the AMD FirePro A300, boasts a 3.4GHz base clock speed peaking at 4GHz in single-core turbo mode and a 65W TDP, while the AMD FirePro A320 speeds things up with a 3.8GHz base clock and 4.2GHz peak turbo clock in a 100W TDP. Both models include 384 stream processors, running at 760MHz on the A300 and 800MHz on the A320.

AMD is hoping that its FirePro-certified APUs will help end the stigma of on-board graphics for professional purposes, promising full compatibility with even high-end software packages. Better still, the company claims that a FirePro A300 will outperform Nvidia's Quadro 600 entry-level dedicated graphics board.

What AMD isn't currently sharing is the price, stating only that off-the-shelf systems based on the two new FirePro APUs will be appearing some time later this month.

Source: bittech.net

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Nvidia GTX 660 Ti available For Pre-Order

Videocardz.com managed to notice that some of the retail/e-tail shops in Sweden decided to jump the gun and start listing the GTX 660 Ti graphics card a few days ahead of its expected launch.

The card is currently listed at anywhere between 3,350 and 3,551 Swedish Kronor which roughly converts to around US $490 and US $520, including taxes, which is way higher than expected, but Swedes have the misfortune of traditionally paying more for their gear than the rest of the continent. We still did not manage to put our finger on the final price as according to our sources, Nvidia still did not wire the final price to its partners and can easily change it just a day before the official launch.

The expected price is somewhere between US $200 and US $300, although US $300 sounds a tad more realistic. However, according to these early listings we would not be surprised to see a US $349 price tag on the new GTX 660 Ti. Of course, this just might be the case of pumped up pre-order price, while the launch price could end up to be lower.

Nvidia's GTX 670 currently sells at around US $399 and judging by the recent performance of the GTX 660 Ti, Nvidia could easily market the GTX 660 Ti for US $349, leaving the rest of the US $200 to US $300 market for the rest of its lineup.

In case you missed it the GTX 660 Ti is based on Nvidia's quite well known 28nm GK104 GPU and features 1344 CUDA cores, 2GB of GDDR5 memory paired up with 192-bit memory interface and clocks set at 915/980MHz for base/boost GPU clock and 6008MHz for memory.

The new GTX 660 Ti graphics card is expected to launch on 16th of August, according to earlier reports, but the Sweden stores claim that the listed graphics card will be available on August 14th.

Source: Videocardz.com

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The Nvidia GTX 660 Ti 2GB Specs

Priced around $300 and with very similar specs to a GTX 670. Frakking hell...

The much-awaited GTX 660 has allegedly hovered in a "we made it, but need to sell our old stuff first" limbo for over a month. With the GTX 560 and 550 soon to be discontinued, the time is definitely right for the first truly midrange Kepler part to emerge into the daylight. Emerge it has... and dear Gods, the specs!

Packing 1334 'CUDA' cores (the same as a GTX 670), a 915 MHz base clock, 980MHz 'boost clock' (also the same as a GTX 670) and 2GB of memory (same) the GTX 660 is closer, specifications wise, to its bigger cousin than any graphics card has been. The card does however lose a quarter of its ROPs (parts designed to handle Anti-Aliasing and other 'post rendering' effects). Similarly restricted is a quarter of the memory bandwidth via a move to a 192-bit, rather than 256-bit bus.

This is not quite the configuration we were expecting, given a relatively low proportion of manufactured GK-104 silicon (the same part used in the GTX 680 and 670) come without flaws. As such fewer of the 1536 cores were expected to be enabled and a 1.5GB compliment of RAM was mooted as being most likely. However it's seems Kepler yields may have improved, while Nvidia have already perfected using non-homogenous memory chips (a la the GTX 460 1GB) allowing 2GB of RAM to be powered by a 192 bit bus.


Tweaktown.com managed to get their hands on one of the upcoming GTX 660 Ti 2GB graphics cards they allege they're in a running fight with Nvidia, but not its cardmakers. From their review, performance at resolutions of 1920x1200 and below performance is simply stellar. The ~90% of a '670 power is what we would expect from card that is memory restricted - on the upper end of a scale between the AMD HD 7950 and GTX 670.

Launch is likely to occur over the coming two to three weeks and should Nvidia keep the supply stable, we could potentially be seeing this card below the $AU 300 mark by month end – given that performance is not that far off the GTX 680, this looks to be the most important release of the efficient Kepler architecture yet. Should the '660 hit its mark without issue AMD will have to go on the defensive in the mid and upper-mid range, leaving the consumer even better off. It's also quite likely we'll see a non 'Ti' GTX 660 further down the track.

Source: atomicmpc.com

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NVIDIA Releases Kepler Graphics based GPUs Demo: A New Dawn

Ten years ago Nvidia released Dawn, a GeForce FX tech demo featuring a fairy gymnast as seen through the tunnel vision of someone who’s been eating unidentified fungi. It was impressive, but in the past ten years extreme use of bloom and depth of field has become less novel. Today, Nvidia released “A New Dawn,” an updated demo (announced last month) which shows off the power of Kepler-based GPUs.

Dawn has new hair (40,000 hairs, to be precise, as opposed to the original demo’s 1,700 strands), a new skin shader, a fully modeled environment to live in, screen space ambient occlusion, and all of the other stuff we expect from Nvidia’s fastest and most efficient GPU yet. Her hair is especially striking, in that it looks very impressive, but not quite like hair.

To deal with the challenge of anti-aliasing 40,000 strands, A New Dawn uses “a special hair smoothing shader that inspects each strand and blurs them in the combing direction.” According to last month’s post, “the final result looks soft and silky, as if she just jumped out of the shower after an extensive conditioner routine.” That is seriously extensive conditioning.

The demonstration will run on a 2.5GHz dual-core processor with a GTX 670 or higher. The download link, a complete list of upgrades, and the full system specs can be found in Nvidia’s post.

Source: Pcmag.com

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Nvidia GTS 650 with GDDR5 memory

According to rumours over at It168.com, it appears that Nvidia might use the 650 name for GDDR5 version of the GT 640. Based on the same 28nm GK107 Kepler GPU, it will feature 384 CUDA cores but have higher clocks when compared to the GT 640.

As we already wrote here, Nvidia still did not talk about model names but according to rumours from the It168.com crew, the lineup will include the aforementioned GTS 650 GD5 as well as the GTX 660 and the GTX 660 Ti graphics cards, in addition to the GT 640 GD3 of course.

The rumoured clocks of the GTS 650 are set at around 1000MHz for the GPU and 4800MHz and performance is around 44 percent higher than what you get on the GT 640, which means that the GK107 surely benefits from faster GDDR5 memory. The GTS 650 could end up without any PCI-Express power connectors as it would draw around 70W.

In any case, August will certainly be interesting for Nvidia as it will finally put some pressure in the mid-range part of the market.


Source: Fudzilla.com

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti To Release In 3rd Week Of August

According to Nvidia's programming, the Geforce GTX 660 Ti is introduced in the middle of next month, that is, sometime between 13 and 19 August. It is time for the important start of school, when students upgrade for the upcoming fall semester.

It seems that NVIDIA is finally going to release the GeForce GTX 660 Ti sometime in August. It is expect at some point between August 13th and 19th, but it could very well be Thursday August 16th or the 14th as previous Kepler GPUs have up till now launched on Tuesdays or Thursdays.

The GTX 660 Ti, as we previously reported, is expected to be a GK104 powered mid-range GPU, with 1334 CUDA cores, 1.5GB of GDDR5 memory on a 192-bit bus. The card is expected to use just one 6-pin PCIe power connector, as well as a short PCB. The fact this GPU should be releasing finally has been given further credence as the newest version of GPU-Z has now added support for GTX 660 among others.

All things considered, if this rumor is more fact than fiction we will see a true mid-range GPU from NVIDIA's Kepler architecture that should arrive in August and come priced around $300. A further scaled down GTX 660 with 1152 CUDA cores may also be in the works and could release in August as well, but as with all rumors take this information with a grain of salt until we get samples for review.

Source: Legitreviews.com

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NVIDIA Readies GeForce GTS 650 Ti for August

NVIDIA is almost ready to launch their whole mid-range lineup. We all know that there’s GeForce GTX 660 coming in about a month, but it seems that there are at least two other cards being prepared as well.

GeForce GTX 660 / GTX 660 Ti and..
As far as the rumors go, there are three cards planned for release in August. From the mid-range segment we expect the GK106 based GeForce GTX 660 along with GTX 660 Ti, which is supposedly based on GK104 GPU. But according to the latest leaks, we might also see yet another card – GeForce GTS 650 Ti (it’s still not clear whether the card receives GTX or GTS naming).

GeForce GTS 650 Ti

Card will purportedly feature five streaming multiprocessors, which gives 960 CUDA cores in total. This model will likely not be equipped with the memory higher than 1.5 GB, not to mention 192-bit interface. This model should be available for around $150, but this is only the estimation.

NVIDIA refreshing GeForce GT 640

NVIDIA is also preparing a new version of GT 640, which is reported to feature GDDR5 memory. There is currently a GDDR3 version available, but it’s obviously not very fast. Card might cost a little more, since it will deliver higher memory bandwidth with some additional frames per second in few games. But still, this is not a gaming card.

NVIDIA’s Mid-range to High-end Lineup

There’s still a lot of discussion on multiple forums, people are speculating about specs of those cards, but the truth is nobody knows anything, and as long as there is no leak in some photographs we should always call those predictions. However, this gives you a quick look of how many cards are still missing from the mid-range segment of NVIDIA’s 600 series.

GeForce 600 Series	GPU	CUDA Cores	Memory	Memory Interface	Launch Price	Release
GeForce GT 640 D3	GK107	384	1GB / 2GB GDDR3	128-bit	$99	April
GeForce GT 640 D5*	GK107	384	1GB / 2GB GDDR5	128-bit	$120	August
GeForce GT 650 Ti*	GK106	960	1GB / 2GB GDDR5	192-bit	$120 – $160	August
GeForce GTX 660*	GK106	1152	1.5 GB GDDR5	192-bit	$200 – $250	August
GeForce GTX 660 Ti*	GK104	1344	1.5GB / 3GB GDDR5	192-bit	$300 – $320	August
GeForce GTX 670	GK104	1344	2GB / 4GB GDDR5	256-bit	$399	May
GeForce GTX 680	GK104	1535	2GB / 4GB GDDR5	256-bit	$499	March
GeForce GTX 690	2xGK104	3072	4GB GDDR5	512-bit	$999	May

Source: Videocardz.com

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Nvidia Tegra 3 Low-cost quad-core Tegra 3 handsets coming this year

If you’re in love with the recently announced Google Nexus 7 for the fact that it packs a top of the line processor in a very, very affordable package – good news. There’s more where that came from. A lot more, in fact.

Nvidia is expanding its Kai platform into smartphone territory. Kai is Nvidia’s low-cost refocusing of the Tegra 3 quad-core chipset. It’s basically a cheaper Tegra 3 that’s been made compatible with cheaper additional hardware components (such as memory and displays). That enables $199 tablets, like we’ve seen with the Nexus 7, without giving up on the 4-PLUS-1 CPU architecture and ’12-core graphics’ that Nvidia likes so much to brag about.

Kai will be in smartphones by the end of this year. That means that we should get ready for some pretty amazingly-priced quad-core devices in the coming months. The first partners for this endeavor are apparently a number of Chinese phone makers. That’s all the information we have for now, but do note that this wording doesn’t necessarily mean that these first low-cost handsets will be confined to the Chinese market. After all, Huawei and ZTE are also ‘Chinese phone makers’ and they’re selling their products globally.

ZTE has shown a quad-core smartphone having the Tegra 3 processor built-in at MWC in February, yet that’s not been launched yet. Perhaps it will be slightly retooled and arrive on the (international) market with this Kai platform inside. That could mean it may beat all its competitors in pricing. And that’s the good thing about Kai – it has the potential to enable another wave of competition (based on lowering prices) in the mobile world. Which is always good for consumers.

Depending on how low-cost Kai will be for smartphones, Nvidia may be starting to compete heavily at the lower end of the market with the likes of Qualcomm, ST, and perhaps even with MediaTek’s most expensive chips. This shows that Nvidia is very confident about its efforts in the mobile market, and at least so far it’s probably got all the reasons to be.

Source: unwiredview.com

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Apple chose its new Kepler GPU for the MacBook refresh

With the rise of tablets and smartphones in the past few years, the landscape has changed quite a bit when it comes to traditional desktop computer manufacturers, especially those not named Apple Inc.

However, prospects for specific technology manufacturers such as Nvidia Corp. appear bright, in part because Apple has picked the graphics chip maker for its latest MacBook Pro refresh.

The company, a global leader in graphics processing units or GPUs, the microchips that allow computers and other devices to produce images on a screen, looks set to capitalize on strong demand in its Tegra mobile chip technology and new Kepler graphics products for desktop and PC.

Bobby Burleson, analyst with Canaccord Genuity, has upgraded Nvidia to a buy from hold while also raising his price target to US$16 from US$13 on both near and medium-term drivers.

Shares of Nvidia are down 2.7% to US$12.64 on the Nasdaq at midday on Monday.

“While most PC-weighted semis are likely to see number cuts near term based on weak notebook production ahead of the back-to-school period, we expect Nvidia to hit guidance,” Mr. Burleson said. “Nvidia appears positioned to offset near-term PC weakness through Tegra strength and Kepler revenues that were guided by limited 28nm wafer supply not PC demand.”

The new flagship Kepler line of GPUs for desktops and PCs, first launched earlier this year, scored a major coup when Apple chose the GeForce GT 650M to drive the Retina displays on its new MacBook Pros.

The last generation of MacBook Pros had used chips from Nvidia’s rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD).

As well, Mr. Burleson sees Nvidia’s guidance on the Kepler line as determined more by supply considerations than on consumer PC demand.

Meanwhile Tegra, a so-called “system-on-a-chip” technology designed specifically for smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices, will benefit from it selection in products such as the HTC One X phone and upcoming Microsoft Corp. Surface tablet.

Mr. Burleson expects 2012 Tegra revenues to hit or even exceed US$500-million, up 39% from US$360-million in 2011. Management has guided US$540-million, although Street expectations have dipped below the US$500-million level completely.

“While Nvidia appears to have significant share on first-generation non-iPad tablets and numerous smartphone design wins, it is unclear which models will be successful,” he said.

Overall, Mr. Burleson forecasts second-quarter revenues of US$1.02-billion and full-year revenues of US$4.225-billion.

Source: Theprovince.com

Tags: Apple, MacBook, MacBook Pro, Nvidia, Nvidia Keplar

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Nvidia Tesla Powered Instruments In Model S sedans

Beginning Friday, Tesla will begin delivering the first batch of Model S sedans to buyers who have pre-ordered the svelte EV, but before the first all-electric Model S rolls out of the automaker’s Fremont, California, factory, the EPA has released its official fuel economy ratings.

The new “miles per gallon equivalent” or MPGe of the Model S comes in at 88 MPGe in the city and 90 MPGe on the highway, for a combined rating of – you guessed it – 89 MPGe.

Just as importantly, the EPA is rating the sedan’s range at 265 miles, based on its new five-cycle testing procedure. That puts it at the top of the EV heap when it comes to range, dwarfing the Honda Fit EV’s combined 118 MPGe, the Mitsubishi i-MiEV’s 112 MPGe, the Ford Focus Electric’s 105 MPGe and the Nissan’s Leaf’s 99 MPGe – none of which are as large or as capacious as the Model S.

The EPA tested a Model S equipped with the largest capacity battery available, with 85 kWh of juice and a sticker of $69,900. Two other models with smaller packs will go on sale, along with the Performance model, which boasts the same 85 kWh pack.
Tesla has also announced its partnership with Nvidia to supply the chipmaker’s Tegra Visual Computing Module (VCM), which powers the 17-inch touchscreen navigation, infotainment and climate control system.

Two Tegra processors handle both the massive center stack display – the largest fitted to a production car – along with the 12.3-inch configurable LCD fitted behind the steering wheel and taking the place of traditional gauges.

By supplying the Tesla Model S, Nvidia now boasts over 20 brands and 100 vehicles using the chipmaker’s wares.

Source: Wired.com

Tags: Nvidia, Nvidia Tesla, Processor, Tech News, Latest Tech

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Indian Space Research Organization to Use Nvidia GPU for its supercomputer

Nvidia announced that supercomputer SAGA system, which holds eighty sixth position on the Top 500 list, is leveraging 640 Nvidia Tesla GPUs providing up to 394 teraflops of peak performance.

Developed by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), one of the six largest space research agencies in the world, the SAGA supercomputer is used to tackle aeronautical problems.

“GPUs enabled us to reduce the time to create, simulate and verify a new launch vehicle design from weeks to days, while improving the overall quality and durability of the design dramatically,” said sources at ISRO. “This level of supercomputing power has made a huge difference in our space program, by enabling us to continually refine and improve our prediction capabilities.”

ISRO leverages the SAGA system and PARAS-3D application to run compute-intensive, detailed computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations that optimize the launch vehicle design for improved performance under a range of flow conditions.

With GPUs, ISRO is able to run simulations seven-eight times faster than with a CPU-based system, reducing the time to create, test and finalize new designs by the same factor.

In addition, the higher compute density in a GPU based system enables better application scalability while requiring a much lower investment in communication infrastructure.

“The Indian government has jumped into global supercomputing race in a big way, with its recent $1 billion pledge to build a network of next-generation, peta scale-class supercomputers throughout the country,” said submit Gupta, senior director, Nvidia’s Tesla business. “India joins the US, China, Germany, Japan, Russia, and other leading nations who are applying supercomputing resources to solve some of the worlds’ most pressing computational, scientific and engineering problems.”

Source: Ciol.com

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Acer Reveal Ivy Bridge, Aspire Timeline Ultra M5 Ultrabook With Nvidia Graphics

The parade of Ultrabooks marches on with Acer’s announcement of the new Aspire Timeline Ultra M5 lineup. Three new models offer no killer features, but do include — in the case of the two higher-priced notebooks — Intel Ivy Bridge processors and Nvidia graphics and are a mere 0.81 inches thick.

Starting at $679.99, the 4.3-pound M5-481T-6670 features a 14-inch LED-backlit 1,366×768 screen, 1.5GHz Core i3-2377M Sandy Bridge Processor and 6GB of RAM. An additional $80 nets you the M5-481TG-6814, which includes the same screen but also packs the 2.6GHz Core i5-3317U Ivy Bridge CPU and GeForce GT640M LE graphics. You do, however, only get 4GB of RAM.

The $829.99 M5-581TG-6666 bumps the screen size up to 15.6 inches (though with the same resolution) while keeping the same Ivy Bridge processor and GeForce graphics as the M5-481TG-6814. (You do get 6GB of RAM, however.) All three M5 systems include 500GB hard drives, 20GB solid state drives for quicker boot-ups (using the Acer Green Instant On feature), a DVD drive, and both Intel and Acer anti-theft technology. Acer claims battery life up to 8 hours thanks to the M5’s PowerSmart long-life battery pack.

While the Aspire Timeline Ultra M5 notebooks won’t wow you like the HP Envy Spectre, they continue the Ultrabook’s path toward becoming the mainstream laptop platform, which becomes important as back-to-school shopping kicks off soon.

Source: Zdnet.com

Tags: Acer, Ivy Bridge, Nvidia, Ultrabook, Laptop, Notebook

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Nvidia Tesla systems will be out before November

Nvidia has said that it will have Kepler based K20 Tesla boards in supercomputers in time for November's Top 500 list.

Nvidia recently launched its Kepler K10 Tesla boards that focus on single-precision floating point performance, with the firm claiming its Tesla K20 boards will appear in the fourth quarter. Now the firm has said it expects supercomputer clusters featuring its Tesla K20 boards will appear in the November 2012 Top 500 list.

When The INQUIRER asked Nvidia if its Kepler-based accelerators will make a big splash in the June Top 500 list Sumit Gupta, GM of Nvidia's HPC business unit said that was "highly unlikely". Gupta continued, "A lot of the supercomputing centres running.

Linpack need double-precision [floating point] and our double-precision product is going to be available in the Q4 time frame, so its not going to impact Top 500 in the June announcement. But we expect to make a huge impact in the November announcement."

Although Gupta said K20 boards are penciled in for the fourth quarter, given that the Top 500 list will be released in November, K20 boards should be available a few months before then, which could push Intel to move forward its Xeon Phi launch plans.

Nvidia claims its K20 Tesla boards will provide three times the double-precision floating point performance of its previous generation Fermi M2090 boards, which in theory would put the board in the 1.5TFLOP region, significantly higher than AMD and Intel are currently claiming with their respective Firepro and Xeon Phi products expected around the same time.

While Nvidia might not improve on its already impressive Top 500 positions, the fact that it expects to make a big dent in November's list should give cause for concern at Intel for its Xeon Phi board.

Source: The Inquirer

Tags: Nvidia, Nvidia Keplar, Nvidia Tesla, Processor, Graphic Cards

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