Sweclockers.com seems to get some details with regards to the release date of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 800 series graphics for desktop PCs. According to the website, the launch should be any time during the 4th quarter of the year (October through December).
They also say that the GeForce GTX 880 and GeForce GTX 870 will be based on the GM204, which is believed to be the successor of the GK104. Is there still a GM210 coming for the ultra-high-end sku for the next-generation GeForce GTX Titan possibly. We really aren’t sure though as the GM210 rumor mill is pretty quiet.
As for the features, the GeForce GTX 880 is said to boast boast 3200 CUDA cores (stream processors), a 950MHz Boost clock, and 5.7 TFLOPs when it comes to GPU compute. The card is also expected to feature a 256-bit path to 4GB of GDDR5 memory running at 7400MHz. Moreover, the GM210 and GM204 GPUs will be the first NVIDIA GPUs to feature an built-in ARM 64-bit processor core.
Some think that the ARM core is supposed to handle the graphics driver overhead and be NVIDIA’s solution to head off AMD’s Mantle API. Thousands of gamers have become interested in what NVIDIA has to offer for their next-generation video cards, so this is good news. Word on the street is that the second generation Maxwell GPUs are already taped out and being integrated on the 28nm process node by TSMC rather than the 20nm process that was rumored earlier.
If the new NVIDIA GeForce GTX graphics cards aren’t enough to get your attention this fall, Intel announced last month that they will be releasing the 4th Generation Core ‘Browadwell’ CPU series before the holiday season of 2014. Apparently desktop PC gamers and enthusiasts are going to be in for a very awesome winter this year.
