Nvidia launches Tesla P100 computing card with HBM2 memory

It has long been speculated when the successor to the HBM memories that AMD used in its graphics cards from the Fury series will appear in the trade. Nvidia has now taken the first step into the market for HBM2 memories with its calculation accelerator Nvidia Tesla P100.

The new model P100 with HBM2 memories will be used for various research areas, such as AI improvements for self-driving cars and cancer and climate research.
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The Tesla P100 is launched in two different sizes of 12 GB and 16 GB, with a memory bandwidth of 549 GB / s and 732 GB / s respectively. The NVLink interface allows up to eight cards to be used in one and the same system, but scaling will be limited due to PCI-Express 3.0 bandwidth limitations.

The Nvidia Tesla P100 will be on sale soon at a price starting at around SEK 70,000 for the 12 GB model.