Nvidia next gen Pascal GPU architecture to be available in 2016

After announcing details about the Tegra Erista mobile processor and a $3000 graphics card , Nvidia published new details about their upcoming GPU architecture called "Pascal" .The GPU design was previously known as "Volta" and it has been slowly replaced by "Pascal" instead (fate of Volta is unknown as of now)

A slide showing the earlier codename "volta" - circa 2013 (via Anandtech)

A slide from GTC 2014 showing the "Pascal" architecture after Maxwell (via Anandtech)

The Pascal GPU is said be the next step in avoiding data bottlenecks when data transferred
between the CPU and GPU slows down the processors ability to perform tasks . The new Nvidia NVLink is a integrated chip to chip communications technology that will eventually replace the PCIe standard by about 80GB per second compared to the 16GB on PCIe. The new Pascal system will also have stacked DRAM chips which are placed in dense modules with wide interfaces, and brings them inside the same package as the GPU. This lets GPUs get data from memory more quickly while retaining a smaller design and better energy efficiency.While combating the physical size by introducing 3D memory packing via Stacked DRAM's , the company will also work on eliminating the need for developers to split resources on CPU and GPU memory by allowing the cpu to access the GOU's memory and vice versa . While all this sounds good , the Pascal GPU architecture will not be available until 2016 .

Source - Engadget , Anandtech

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