Nvidia Claims Its New Chip Is the 'World's Fastest GPU' for Game and VR Design (venturebeat.com)

An anonymous reader shares a VentureBeat report: Nvidia announced today the Quadro P6000 graphics card for workstations, using the "world's fastest GPU." The graphics card is targeted at designers who have to create complex simulations for everything from engineering models to virtual reality games. The Quadro P6000 is based on Nvidia's new Pascal graphics architecture, and it uses a GPU with 3,840 processing cores. It can reach 12 teraflops of computing performance, or twice as fast as the previous generation. Nvidia unveiled the new platform for artists, designers, and animators at the Siggraph graphics technology conference in Anaheim, Calif. AnandTech has more details on this. From their article:As NVIDIA's impending flagship Quadro card, this is based on the just-announced GP102 GPU. The direct successor to the GM200 used in the Quadro M6000, the GP102 mixes a larger number of SMs/CUDA cores and higher clockspeeds to significantly boost performance. Paired with P6000 is 24GB of GDDR5X memory, running at a conservative 9Gbps, for a total memory bandwidth of 432GB/sec. This is the same amount of memory as in the 24GB M6000 refresh launched this spring, so there's no capacity boost at the top of NVIDIA's lineup. But for customers who didn't jump on the 24GB -- which is likely a lot of them, including most 12GB M6000 owners -- then this is a doubling (or more) of memory capacity compared to past Quadro cards. At this time the largest capacity GDDR5X memory chips we know of (8Gb), so this is as large of a capacity that P6000 can be built with at this time. Meanwhile this is so far the first and only Pascal card with GDDR5X to support ECC, with NVIDIA implementing an optional soft-ECC method for the DRAM only, just as was the case on M6000.

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My chip is even faster

[Anonymous Coward]

but sorry cant leave contact info here, have to make a first post on slashdot.

Totally unavailable

[Anonymous Coward]

And, like literally all new GPUs this year, it will be totally unbuyable.

My brother's wanted a new GPU for months, so I told him I'd get him one. No Rx480 stock as it was sold out day one and has pretty much remained so since it launched. So I looked at the 1060, no stock available whatsoever there either. Same goes with Nvidia's 1080 and 1070, which have apparently had vastly limited quantities, even moreso than the smaller cheaper GPUs.

And of course their less available, that's how chip manufacturing works. The larger the chip's die, the more transistors that can go wrong during manufacturing, the more likely the chip is to come out as a dud. Don't expect this "world's most powerful GPU for gaming!" to actually be buyable by most anyone. Probably have to wait till next year for anything beyond the smallest new GPUs to be available in any kind of decent quantity.

Re:Totally unavailable

[acrobuddy]

This card isn't a gaming card, far from it. The Quadro line of cards are workstation cards, not built or made for gaming in the first place. As you missed a few words as well in the title "...for Game and VR Design"

Re:Totally unavailable

[SuricouRaven]

Don't buy new GPUs.

Buy ones that a little behind the cutting edge, ones from a few months ago.

80% of the performance at 30% of the price.

Better-binned Titan X?

[Misagon]

According to Anandtech, the GPU is the GP102 which is the same as in the recently announced top-end consumer card "Titan X" (note: not "GTX Titan X".. confusing? yes)

The Titan X has 3584 shader processors while the Quadro P6000 has 3840 and twice the memory. I assume that this means that the Titan X has a lower-binned chip.
Previous generation of Nvidia GPUs ("Maxwell" architecture) has a GPU called GTX 980 Ti, which was a lower-binned GTX Titan X with half the memory. Now when the 10-series Titan X is already the lower-binned GPU, I suppose this means that there will not be any "GTX 1080 Ti".