We're here at NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, and company CEO Jen Hsun-Huang has just revealed the next step in its GPU roadmap. Called Volta, it's scheduled to arrive after Maxwell, and will advance GPU technology with a ridiculous amount of memory bandwidth. Volta GPUs will have access to up to 1TB per second of bandwidth by stacking the DRAM on top of the GPU itself, with a silica substrate between them. Then, by cutting a hole through the silicon and connecting each layer it's possible to move, according to Huang "all of the data from a full Blu-Ray disc through the chip in 1/50th of a second." We aren't exactly sure what that means for graphics, but being able to process data that quickly is bound to be a boon for gamers... whenever Volta actually arrives, of course.

http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/19/nvidia-roadmap-volta-gpu/

If the memory is stacked on top of the GPU, how are they going to cool that?

SO?

Instabuy

hot damn.

Eh. So Maxwell now is definitely coming 2014. Considering the daunting task GPU makers already have cooling modern GPUs and TSMC's difficulties on improving their manufacturing processes, Volta's stacked RAM design will probably be delayed an extra year or two to late 2017 or early 2018 and it won't be that groundbreaking by then.

See, that's why AMD is way better than Nvidia. But why I've always bought Nvidia cards then is beyond me haha.

Next-Gen... again...

Holy crap, Batman.

Volta will have like 6-8 Tflops ?

Nvidia said some time ago that in 2019 they will have 40 Tflop in a 100 Watt GPU. Thats like 3 shrinks away. Volta: 20nm xx: 16nm xxx: 10nm

That 1 TB bandwith might soon be necessary and if stacked ram becomes reality we can look forward to a smaller quiter cheaper PS4.

2020-2025 Avatar realtime will hopefully become reality.

you mean PS5 :P