Nvidia graphics card with 7,552 CUDA cores in performance test

Nvidia’s latest graphics architecture Turing was presented in August 2018 and since then a steady stream of graphics cards has rolled out. The list includes cards in lower price ranges, the heated Super series, a number of Ti versions and in the future a GDDR6-equipped version of the Geforce GTX 1650 can also accompany the large family.

Recently, Nvidia’s next architecture has also been on the agenda, which looks to be named “Ampere” and launched sometime during the year. On the server side, news seems to be ready for use by the summer, and now has Twitter user “_rogame” rooted out performance figures for two unknown power packs signed the graphics card giant.

The performance tests have been carried out in synthetic Geekbench 5 and are dated to November and October 2019, but have only now been found. The listings do not reveal any details about the name of the cards, but among the specifications are the amount of memory, clock frequency and the number of calculation units (Compute Units, CU), where one is translated into 64 CUDA cores.

In the more powerful model, as many as 118 computing units, or 7,552 cores, can be seen in the company of 24 GB of graphics memory. This can be compared to the Titan RTX which with the TU102 circuit offers 4,608 CUDA cores and 24 GB of GDDR6 memory. The type of memory that applies to the unknown card cannot be read, but it is clear that the maximum clock frequency is at a modest 1.11 GHz, a level that is not entirely unusual in data center-oriented series.

The second tested graphics card has 108 computing units, 6,912 cores, a clock frequency just over 1 GHz and a full 48 GB of graphics memory. The results in Geekbench 5 for the former variant are 184,096 points, while the latter is 141,654 points. The figures can be compared with the Tesla V100 and Titan RTX, which reach around 154,000 and 129,000 points respectively.

At the time of writing, it is unclear in which architecture and graphics family the tested cards belong, but it is probably the same hardware that will take up space in a supercomputer by the summer. Nvidia has previously unveiled the latest cut server hardware at the GTC graphics fair, and it is possible that more information will emerge during GTC 2020, which starts on March 22.

Do you have a Turing card in your computer, or are you waiting for something new from AMD or Nvidia? Tell us in the comments thread!