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here at gtc 2016 where we just saw the keynote from Nvidia's conference and the main item here to talk about today is a new VR demo so it's sort of like the Everest VR demo but the new one is on Mars so this is Mars 2030 and it's an eight square kilometer area that uses photogrammetry from satellite flyovers to actually build the landscape and this is somewhat at a top level similar to what we talked up with the Everest VR previously and you can read about that in some of our CES coverage and items like that but with Mars the demo was actually showcase by Steve Wozniak so that did add a bit of humor to the element we've got the full article below if you want to read more on that but one of the main interactions was when at Steve Wozniak sort of stepped into the rover and there's actually a rover on the surface you can either walk around you can drive around and get it into the rover has some audio files that were recorded by Nvidia at NASA headquarters so they were able to recreate audio more accurately to what's actually going on now in terms of other forms of accuracy within the demo there's a physically accurate representation of the Mars rovers wheels and shocks as it moves around the service so there's a suspension movement as is appropriate for different rocks and other terrain elements and speaking of the rock specifically I don't know if he was exaggerated or not but Nvidia CEO Jensen said that there were a million at rocks and many of them were handcrafted on the surface of the Mars 20 30 demo the next major announcement at the keynote was the introduction of Pascal Tesla p100 so that's the first GPU for Pascal that's being produced on mass and it just entered volume production so that's the p100 GPU and it's in the Tesla p100 card the solution which is not a consumer solution it's not a geforce product sort of a super computes ID but just for sake of reference the new p100 is a 15 billion ish transistor GPU it's got 10.6 teraflops of FP 32 compute more than 20 teraflops of FP 16 making it definitely very powerful it's the largest GPU that enmity has ever produced according to the stage presence here at gtc and that of course leaves the question of where's where's geforce where's the stuff that we care about as gamers and that's not been announced yet here today we obviously no Pascal is forthcoming for gaming hbm 2 is on the Tesla p100 will probably be on the g4 side as well but there's currently a pretty large window for AMD to try and get moving with their Polaris there na'vi and their viga GPU architecture that we talked about a GD c naught t cg DC just a couple weeks ago so right now it's pretty interesting time to keep an eye on polaris and na'vi and then see if Pascal is still going to hit 4 2016 on the game inside on the g4 side and of course if it will include hbm to or if they're going to be using gddr5 x or something similar or both which is the most likely right now from what we've looked at previously all this coverage as always linked below for full details if you want more depth and if you like this type of coverage check out our patreon like the postural video subscribe and we'll see you all next time