Nvidia's big, bad Xavier is the first of a breed of processors that will power the modern world At GTC 2016, Nvidia previewed “Xavier,” an SoC that integrates a 512-core Volta GPU and an 8-core ARM CPU. Skipping the amusing retort given by most companies when questioned about leaks—we don’t pre-announce products—probably because press, analysts, and fans have been hearing … Read more
Easter morning and things were quiet, so for fun I ran a couple of tests. One machine, an Alienware Aurora with 4 GHz i7-6700K with 16 GB DDR3, and an 8 GB Radeon Vega RX 64 (driving three screens, two-4k, and one-8k for a total of 50 Mpixels) with driver 18.3.4. The other machine—an Alienware Area 51 with a 3.3 … Read more
The basic graphics processor unit—GPU is recognized as one of the most significant developments in computer processing, exceeding the DSP in importance, and challenging the ubiquity of the CPU. GPUs can be stand-alone or integrated or embedded. As such, we have assigned lower case prefixes to help distinguish them. The more popular ones are listed here: dGPU — discrete or … Read more
Easter morning and things were quiet, so for fun I ran a couple of tests. One machine, an Alienware Aurora with 4 GHz i7-6700K with 16 GB DDR3, and an 8 GB Radeon Vega RX 64 (driving three screens, two-4k, and one-8k for a total of 50 Mpixels) with driver 18.3.4. The other machine—an Alienware Area 51 with a 3.3 … Read more
Nvidia demonstrated real-time raytracing at GDC and again at GTC using their DGX station super computer through the DirectX Raytracing (DXR) API. That system provides a theoretical compute capability of over 63 TFLOPS for the total system, of which about 62 TFLOPS were used for the ray tracing. So a threshold or benchmark of sorts has been established for what … Read more
Year-to-year total GPU shipments decreased -4.8%
Company expands its footprint AMD has introduced two new product families—the AMD EPYC Embedded 3000 processor and AMD Ryzen Embedded V1000 processor. AMD EPYC Embedded 3000 brings the power of “Zen” to a variety of new markets including networking, storage and edge computing devices, while AMD Ryzen Embedded V1000 targets medical imaging, industrial systems, digital gaming and thin clients, according … Read more
Fine-grained voltage and frequency controls As always, Intel presented papers at the world famous and prestigious IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference — ISSCC. One Intel paper was particularly interesting to us. It was titled, An Energy-Efficient Graphics Processor Featuring Fine-Grain DVFS with Integrated Voltage Regulators, Execution-Unit Turbo, and Retentive Sleep in 14nm Tri-Gate CMOS Bet you can’t say that … Read more
How many are there? 21 quadrillion pixels An old friend asked me, Hey Jon, how many pixels do you think there are in the world? TV’s, PC’s, smart phones, tablets. It’s going to be a lot! But how many? Twenty-one quadrillion, six hundred and thirty-four trillion pixels in use today: 21,634,876,802,016,700.00 To start the analysis, I started with what was … Read more
How many are there? 21 quadrillon pixels An old friend asked me, Hey Jon, how many pixels do you think there are in the world? TV’s, PC’s, smart phones, tablets. It’s going to be a lot! But how many? Twenty-one quadrillion, six hundred and thirty-four trillion pixels in use today: 21,634,876,802,016,700.00 To start the analysis, I started with what was shipped … Read more
Furian-based four-cluster PowerVR 8XT GT8540 GPU can simultaneously drive six 4K screens Imagination Technologies announced its new, high performance PowerVR Series8XT GPU core, which supports multiple, ultra-high resolution displays for cluster, Head-Up Display (HUD) and infotainment, is being adopted by automotive manufactures from 2018 onwards. The company says that among things, that is due to an 80% fill-rate density improvement … Read more
Three fabs are producing , expect to see in AIBs later this year Although a lot of people thought the highly parallel high bandwidth 3D memory (HBM) would be the logical heir to GDDR for graphics AIBs, its price and manufacturing costs outweigh its benefits in some cases. Therefore, to be as flexible as possible, the AIB builders need the … Read more
