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GTC 2014 - TITAN Z, NVIDIA Pascal, Oculus DK2 1080p & Lenovo S9 Smart TV

2014-03-30
hello I'm 33 with Haruka Knox and gtc happen which is the annual GPU technology conference in San Jose they hold many and very interesting and very advanced seminars on how GPUs are applied within all types of sectors so space exploration medicine mobile sector the automotive sector and many many more so it really is a developer's playground to see the direction of GPUs and how they shape this sat technology world so there were a couple of highlights from the show that will go over in this video so the first one is of course in the video announcing the Titans e or times e however you want to call it depending on where you are in the world so Titans that incorporates do gk110 unlocked course so basically to titan blocks combined into one single card with 5760 cuda cores 12 gigabytes of vram so six gigabyte per GPU and they're also tuned to operate at the same frequency to avoid bottlenecks it's a two and a half inch slot card so it's slightly thicker I don't think it was very clear when Jensen was holding it and it will require three PCI slots and it is priced at the whopping wait for it at the whopping three thousand dollars now in the world way you can get to tighten blacks or could potentially get depending on availability for two thousand dollars you can imagine there was a lot of outcry from the community asking about the three thousand dollar price perhaps it has been sprinkled with something very expensive on top of that and videos placing the Titans that within their geforce line which is the gaming line so i would consider this to be more of a computational supercomputer or micro super supercomputer for your needs but they're still placing within the gaming line and you have to ask yourself with 4k still hovering around us to still country trying to break into the consumer market in the video is already pushing towards 5k gaming with it tightens n nvidia also announced their next-generation graphics architecture which is pascal its coordinate pascal incorporates so many cool features like unified memory so it's a shared memory pool between the CPU and the GPU they'll also incorporate 3d memory so it's a married that's stacked on top of each other that allows higher bandwidth much improved energy efficiency and allows for much more capacity to be installed on the GPU board so Pascal we're going to see the actual graphics cards to be smaller perhaps the most smaller form factor but the most interesting thing about Pascal is what Nvidia calls and the link so envy link is the new interface for communication between the CPU and the GPU that will complement pci express bus it will not replace it but allow for five to 12 times bandwidth increase allowing for much faster data share now this of course is very exciting for developers and high-performance crowd who really care about compute as the Nvidia really sort of teases us with what supercomputers are to become in 2016 when Pascal finally rolls out but this doesn't mean that envy link and Pascal are not totally out of the consumer world as envie link as a concept would be ideal and really perfect for SLI configurations as you think about it it will reduce bandwidth and will allow a more seamless communication between the CPU and GPU potentially allowing that Unleashed performance for gaming in sli systems oculus to also made an appearance at gtc this year where they showcasing DK to the development kit to and from I can tell you it is a much needed improvement over dk1 you now have a higher resolution display so pixels are still visible but you can really focus on the graphics of the game rather than checking out the grid lines between pixels the new motion sensor has been added to the actual headset allowing you actual 3d positioning on your head which side to side up and down and really makes it so much more fun and immersive and the fact that DK 2 is here this is very exciting this means that we are so much closer to consumer lease almost two years after the Kickstarter project another awesome thing we saw a GDC on the floor was Lenore's entrance within the North American market with Lenovo s9 smart TV now Lenovo is not very popular with the North American market when it comes to TVs but they're huge in Asia so they're really storming the market the North American market with this awesome smart TV incorporating Tegra so this integration of nvidia's tegra k1 SOC comes in the form of a smart card or a module that you plug into the television at the back and since it's an actual system built into the smart card that features android 4.4 and it has the power to play all of your android games right from your couch lenovo will include a controller plus there's a wireless remote for navigation within the smart menu and the fact that everyone is being integrated into smart TVs is great so giving us the extra power to drive android gaming off your couch of course there are also many cars on the show floor featuring tk1 integration within the automotive industry for self navigation smart assist and many more applications so out of all these announcements which ones did you find most interesting or gulp indulging because I know the Titans that price tag as it was announced on Twitter it was exploding so let us know how you feel about that don't forget to subscribe for more similar content and we'll see you in the next one
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