As the industry pushes ever into DirectX 12 and Vulkan, compute preemption and dynamic task management become the gatekeepers to performance advancements in these new APIs. If the Founders Edition nomenclature confuses you, don't let it – it's a replacement for nVidia's old “Reference” card naming, as we described here.Īnticipation is high for GP104's improvements over Maxwell, particularly in the area of asynchronous compute and command queuing. That GPU lands on the GTX 1080 Founders Edition video card first, later to be disseminated through AIB partners with custom cooling or PCB solutions. NVidia's debut of consumer-grade Pascal architecture initializes with GP104, the first of its non-Accelerator cards to host the new 16nm FinFET process node from TSMC. You'd halfway expect this promulgation of multipliers and gains and reductions (but only where smaller is better) to mark the end-times for humankind surely, if some device were crafted to the standards by which it were announced, The Aliens would descend upon us.īut, every now and then, those bombastic announcements have something behind them – there's substance there, and potential for an adequately exciting piece of technology. All the pyrotechnics in the world couldn't match the gasconade with which GPU & CPU vendors announce their new architectures.

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