NVIDIA official roadmap: Kepler postponed to 2012 Maxwell 2014

At the end of September last year, NVIDIA announced for the first time the codenames Kepler and Maxwell for the next two generations of GPUs, and set the release dates for 2011 and 2013, respectively, in an attempt to continue each The GPU architecture was upgraded in two years, but now the bounce ticket is a foregone conclusion.

On the one hand, it is estimated that the yield of TSMC's 28nm process is still not up to the standard. On the other hand, Kepler itself needs to be further improved. NVIDIA is now officially postponing its release time to 2012, and Maxwell is postponed until 2014.

More specific release times are still unknown, but if all goes well Kepler should be available at the end of the first quarter of 2012.

Interestingly, NVIDIA wrote the Tesla GeForce GTX 200 series and the Fermi GeForce 400 series in 2007 and 2009 respectively. However, in fact, the two generations of the GeForce GTX 280 and GeForce GTX 480 were born. In June of 2008 and March of 2010, it was now "corrected" and Tesla was replaced with T10 (internal code). Of course, from the perspective of the roadmap, the NVIDIA GPU architecture is still updated once every two years.

However, Kepler and Maxwell's performance goals remain unchanged, and the expected double-precision floating-point performance per watt is 5 times and 15 times higher than that of the GeForce GTX 280.