Pemalite said:
Soleron said:
This is the new thing isn't it? Same chip, same process, more unlocked and rebranded.
AMD's 5GHz thing, Nvidia 700 series, AMD 8000 series, Intel's 2014 Haswell "refresh" and now this.
Where's the smaller chips?? |
It's not just a re-brand, it's a Quadro, nVidia does extra Q.A and provides additional Driver support and throws more memory at it.
Plus it has more shaders, Texture mapping units than Titan and retains the same memory bandwidth of 288GB/s.
It's not designed for gaming anyway, it's a workstation card, 99.9% of gamers would have zero need for 12Gb of video memory, so nVidia targets it at another market and charges a premium for the privelage.
Basically it's the same status quo.
Basically nVidia designes an architecture then filters that architecture into different market segments.
I.E. Geforce for consumers, Tesla for servers and Quadro for Workstations all with varying amounts of hardware enabled/disabled.
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It's the same chip. Everything else you describe is easy/cheap compared to qualifying a new chip on a new process.
