Nvidia has very high expectations for its Kepler generation of graphics processing units (GPUs). The company claims that it had signed contracts to supply mobile versions of GeForce “Kepler” chips with every single PC OEM in the world. In fact, Nvidia says Kepler is the best graphics processor ever designed by the company.
In April, AMD's rival NVIDIA will get its GeForce Kepler family of GPUs, all guns blazing. In April alone, NVIDIA is expected to launch a high-end part, the GeForce GTX 690, a performance part, the GeForce GTX 660, and mainstream part GeForce GTX 640. The three will be based on three new ASICs built on the 28 nm process, the GK110, GK104, and GK106, respectively.
“We are ramping very hard all of our 28nm products. The yield is much better than 40nm when it first came out, but it isn’t as good as we had expected in our previous projections,” said Rob Csongor, VP Investor Relations at Nvidia.
Both Rob and Jen-Hsun couldn’t stress enough that the company could achieve even greater things if only TSMC’s yields allowed it to.
Izvor:2013 looks to be strong for NVIDIA, but Q1 will still see some struggles. The ramping of 28 nm will be a thorn in the side, as NVIDIA has a per-wafer agreement with TSMC. Currently yields are poor, so the resulting cost of the wafer is high and margins are low. There also are simply not enough available wafer starts for all the companies that order from TSMC. Supply is very constrained, so NVIDIA is just not getting the chip counts that they need.
Next up, is the GTX 650 Ti. This sits squarely in the mid-range, with a price tag of $249. Performance this time is given as being similar to a GTX 570, rather than comparing to AMD's competition. It sports the following specs:
850MHz core clock
1.75GB 5.5GHz GDDR5 Memory
448 Stream Processors
224-bit bus width
The bottom of the range card is the GTX 640, priced at $139 and meant for budget gamers. Still, the raw specs look like it will have some punch and it should play the latest games competently.
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UPDATE: Word around the internet is that this data is fake. We're keeping an open mind about this, but do read this leak with your skeptical hat firmly on!
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http://pcper.com/reviews/Editorial/NVIDIA-Reports-Q4-and-FY2012-Earnings-Tegra-3-28nm-Kepler
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We got word that Nvidia finally talked to its partners about its highly confidential Kepler products.
They got briefed, they got the reference design and the production of the cards is staring as we speak. It looks like most of the cards available at launch are going to look alike, with different cooling from some partners, but the non-reference partner cards will come a bit later.
Nvidia should be ready to release GK104 by April, but we are not aware of any solid date at this time. Jensen did mention that Nvidia had some lower than expected 28nm yields but also clarified that it is nothing like the transition to 40nm a few years back.
Despite some rumors that Kepler might be a good performer, AMD is still enjoying quite good sales of its 28nm products. It is getting ready to finish launching top to bottom portfolio from entry level all the way to high-end.
We are also told that AIB partners will have enough inventory on launch day to fulfil needs of most markets. It’ll not be a soft launch like AMD Radeon HD 7970. We aren’t allowed to tell much about the upcoming graphics card from NVIDIA but what we can assure you is that next couple of months will be very interesting.
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