Nvidia GK110 on its way to Geforce and the consumer market

At the GPU Technology Conference in June, Nvidia finally took the plunge and announced the GK110 graphics processor, known as the full-featured version of the Kepler. The circuit will initially not be used for Geforce but for the upcoming calculation card Tesla K20, but now it looks like the model is also on its way to the consumer market.

To SweClockers, one of Nvidia’s partner manufacturers, who do not want to be seen by name, now states that Geforce with GK110 is under development. The graphics card goes by the working name Geforce GTX 780, which indicates that the circuit will appear in the next generation of graphics cards. In addition, there is talk that a launch may take place towards the end of the year or at the beginning of the next.

The GK110 graphics processor contains a sky-high 7.1 billion transistors and is thus twice as high as the GK104, which is used for today’s flagship Geforce GTX 680. This means 2,880 CUDA cores divided into 15 stream processors (SMX) and a 384-bit memory bus.

However, it is not certain that an upcoming Geforce with GK110 will have the same configuration as the Tesla K20 calculation card. A graphics processor with as many as 7.1 billion transistors is both expensive and difficult to manufacture. Nvidia may well decide to reuse circuits with minor defects to the consumer model, which would mean that some of the computing units will be deactivated to reduce costs.