NVIDIA reveals next-gen architectures “Kepler” and “Maxwell” at GTC 2010

Brian Ambrozy 21 Sep, 2010 at 1:54pm ET Article published in Tech

Today during the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference (GTC2010), CEO Jen-Hsun Huang revealed the codenames of the next two generations of GPU parts: Kepler in 2011 and Maxwell in 2013.

Kepler, built on a 28nm process, will introduce virtual memory and pre-emption, and is expected to bring 3-4x performance per watt over Fermi. Maxwell, at least according to the bar graphs we saw, look to double Kepler’s performance and provide “16 gigaflops per watt.”

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21 Sep 2010 ~ 2:49pm DrLiam Looking like Nvidia might be the new undisputed kings once again not too soon. I'm patiently waiting for ATi's response though.
21 Sep 2010 ~ 4:00pm aberkae My next upgrade from my gtx 480's in sli. From hot fermis to kool kepler. Lol. Well we have no idea if Nvidia will gain back its' throne because AMD is comming out with a 28nm chips in 2011 as well ( 2nd tape out of 6000 series) (1st being on currwent 40 nm chips due out in a few weeks) time will tell. If Nvidia keeps up the good work with its drivers, and comes out with better perfomance per watt then AMD offerning gpus then it might just happen. PPl think that AMD stole the market from Nvida, and will stay and watch nvidia take it back. Lol. You are wrong. AMD Did it passivelly and now will keep its share aggressivelly!

Thanks for the news.
21 Sep 2010 ~ 4:35pm GooD Good news indeed
21 Sep 2010 ~ 4:50pm Cliff_Forster Code name, project menopause...

When its going to be late, with hot flashes...
21 Sep 2010 ~ 5:48pm UPSLynx Kepler could raise the bar, but if they hit what they're promising, Maxwell will be the biggest challenger.

Then again, that's three years from now. If GPUs aren't delivering gains that large by 2013, then we've all been cheated.

Kind of surprised that they don't plan on any solutions for the 2012 timeframe.
21 Sep 2010 ~ 10:00pm Sledgehammer70 If we have 8x performance that we currently have now I am going to be shocked to see what games will look like and just how fast programs will run. Fromt he look sof it CPU's are going to scale along with the GPU's
21 Sep 2010 ~ 10:20pm Thrax It's GTC. When they say 8x performance, they pretty much only mean for HPC. None of that pans out for desktop parts.