I'm curious to see how the next couple of generations in the workstation market go. Are desktops going to stick around, or are we going to see a lot more notebooks paired with, at least for businesses who need the extra power, a grid server? Personally, I could definitely be persuaded to using the latter approach.
Well, it's been very well known that all the Maxwell parts are 1/32 FP64 so no big surprises there. As many suspect, including myself, this was done because we have been stuck at 28nm for so long, and they preferred to spend the transistor budget on other stuff. There is always still GK110/210 for the heavy hitting FP64 users.
No, FP64 is essential for many compute loads. Anything graphics related is usually fine with FP32 or something less. Many "workstation" workloads fall into the latter category. And if you use the GPU for compute, chances are you need serious crunching power - so you go for that server with multiple Teslas anyway.
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Terry Suave - Thursday, October 1, 2015 - link
I'm curious to see how the next couple of generations in the workstation market go. Are desktops going to stick around, or are we going to see a lot more notebooks paired with, at least for businesses who need the extra power, a grid server? Personally, I could definitely be persuaded to using the latter approach.ddriver - Thursday, October 1, 2015 - link
Once again, disappointing FP64 performance. FP64 is very important for workstation workloads.Sadly, in order to compete AMD is adopting the same strategy.
extide - Thursday, October 1, 2015 - link
Well, it's been very well known that all the Maxwell parts are 1/32 FP64 so no big surprises there. As many suspect, including myself, this was done because we have been stuck at 28nm for so long, and they preferred to spend the transistor budget on other stuff. There is always still GK110/210 for the heavy hitting FP64 users.MrSpadge - Thursday, October 1, 2015 - link
No, FP64 is essential for many compute loads. Anything graphics related is usually fine with FP32 or something less. Many "workstation" workloads fall into the latter category. And if you use the GPU for compute, chances are you need serious crunching power - so you go for that server with multiple Teslas anyway.Samus - Thursday, October 1, 2015 - link
As NVidia has said, if you need FP64, Tesla is your route.ddriver - Friday, October 2, 2015 - link
Too bad it has the worst price / performance ratio.Meaker10 - Thursday, October 1, 2015 - link
The 980M launched with 8GB of VRAM a year ago, so it's not that recent for the memory.