What is “Ampere”? It is the latest arch(itecture) (SM8.x) from nVidia launching with the new Series 30 mainstream cards (RTX 3090, 3080 and soon 3070, 3060) cards, a major update from the previous “Turing”/”Volta” (Series 20, SM 7.x). A “Titan” pro-sumer version will also launch soon while the data-center A100 … Read more…
What is “Titan RTX / 2080Ti”? It is the latest high-end “pro-sumer” card from nVidia with the next-generation “Turing” architecture, the update to the current “Volta” architecture that has had a limited release in Titan/Quadro cards. It powers the new Series 20 top-end (with RTX) and Series 16 mainstream (without … Read more…
What is FP16 (“half”)? FP16 (aka “half” floating-point) is the IEEE lower-precision floating-point representation that has recently begun to be supported by GPGPUs for compute (e.g. Intel EV9+ Skylake GPU, nVidia Pascal/Turing) and soon by CPUs (BFloat16). While originally meant for mobile devices in order to reduce memory and compute … Read more…
What is “Titan V”? It is the latest high-end “pro-sumer” card from nVidia with the next-generation “Volta” architecture, the next generation to the current “Pascal” architecture on the Series 10 cards. Based on the top-end 100 chipset (not lower 102 or 104) it boasts full speed FP64/FP16 performance as well … Read more…
What is “Titan X (Pascal)”? It is the current high-end “pro-sumer” card from nVidia using the current generation “Pascal” architecture – equivalent to the Series 10 cards. It is based on the 2nd-from-the-top 102 chipset (not the top-end 100) thus it does not feature full speed FP64/FP16 performance that is … Read more…
