President and CEO of Nvidia Jen-Hsun Huang speaks at the 2014 AUDI CES Keynote presentation at The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas on January 6, 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo : Getty Images/Gabe Ginsberg)
Nvidia has revealed two new graphics processing units at a live event. The new generation PC graphics cards were based on their Pascal architecture.
Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang has recently revealed two new graphics processing units, which are the GTX 1080, and the GTX 1070 during a live event in Austin, Texas. He boasted that the GTX 1080 was faster than the GTX 980, which was its predecessor. Even if the PC has two GTX 980 cards operating in SLi mode, the successor was still stronger, he added.
According to a post on Nvidia's official blog, the new consumer GPUs were made after the PC graphics card company revealed the very first Pascal-based GPU, which was the P100. The Pascal design is supposed to be the basis for a whole incoming generation of chips, and it also comes with a new manufacturing process. This new process will give way to enable chips that will be faster, smaller, and cheaper compared to the old version of chips.
According to Venture Beat, the 28-nanometer TSMC process, which was available for Nvidia, and their rival, Advanced Micro Devices since 2012, was the one they used for the older generation of chips. This new process, however, can let the PC graphics card company create P100 with 15 billion transistors on just one chip. The new PC graphics cards will be the simpler versions of the P100.
Huang said in the live stream event that this is the largest chip processor attempt in the human history. He boasted that the budget for the R&D department was several billion dollars just to create the most efficient, and the most advanced architecture.
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney joined Huang on stage, and thanked him for continuing on improving their technology every year. He added that it has bridged the gap between non-real-time cinematic animation, and real-time game animations.
Huang has also promised that they may be able to do both types of animation this time around with this new technology. He explained that in a few years, software developers can animate human faces that truly look real. He also added that the amount of improvement is huge when it comes to color depth, resolution, and curvature of displays.
Also during the live stream event, the Nvidia CEO showed off cool 3D effects in current games like "Tomb Raider," with the latest PC graphics card. All of these games ran at 60 frames per second, and he was proud of that achievement.
Check out the GTX 1080 introduction video below:
