At 294mm2 GK104 is not Big Kepler, and while NVIDIA doesn’t comment on unannounced products, somewhere in the bowels of NVIDIA Big Kepler certainly lives, waiting for its day in the sun. Since the days of the G80, NVIDIA has always produced a large 500mm2+ GPU to serve both as a flagship GPU for their consumer lines and the fundamental GPU for their Quadro and Tesla lines, and have always launched with that big GPU first. What you won’t find today however – and in a significant departure from NVIDIA’s previous launches – is Big Kepler. While NVIDIA is not like AMD in that they don’t announce products ahead of time, it’s a sure bet that we’ll eventually see GK107 move up to the desktop and GK104 move down to laptops in the future. Meanwhile in the mobile space we have the GT640M, which is based on the GK107 GPU. On the desktop we have the GTX 680, based on the GK104 GPU. Technically speaking Kepler’s launch today is a double launch. As we’ll see, not only has NVIDIA retaken the performance crown with the GeForce GTX 680, but they have done so in a manner truly befitting of their drive for efficiency. Launching today is the GeForce GTX 680, at the heart of which is NVIDIA’s new GK104 GPU, based on their equally new Kepler architecture.
The end result of which is NVIDIA’s next generation GPU architecture: Kepler.
With a focus on efficiency, NVIDIA has stripped Fermi down to the core and then built it back up again reducing power consumption and die size alike, all while maintaining most of the aspects we’ve come to know with Fermi.
So how do you follow up on Fermi? As it turns out, you follow it up with something that is in many ways more of the same. Though it was a very clearly a rough start for NVIDIA, Fermi ended up doing quite well in the end.
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With Fermi NVIDIA not only captured the performance crown for gaming, but they managed to further build on their success in the professional markets with Tesla and Quadro. “How do you follow up on Fermi?” That’s the question we had going into NVIDIA’s press briefing for the GeForce GTX 680 and the Kepler architecture earlier this month.
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