Nvidia release their first PCIe HBM2 powered GPU to the market
Nvidia release their first PCIe HBM2 powered GPU to the market
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Nvidia has officially released their first PCIe HBM2 powered GPU, officially beating AMD to the market with the new memory standard.Â
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The Nvidia P100  is Nvidia’s first HBM2 PCIe 3 GPU to be officially released, though this GPU will only come as a Nvidia Tesla model which is designed for workstation use and not gaming. This means that AMD will likely become the first company to release the first a gaming oriented GPU to use HBM2 memory.Â
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Nvidia’s P100 GPU will also come with several different models, releasing with 16GB and 12GB variants that come with memory bandwidths of 732GB/s and 549 GB/s respectively. This means that there will be versions that use four 4GB HBM2 chips while there will be other versions with three active 4GB HBM2 memory chips. Â
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With this new GPU Nvidia are showcasing how scalable their new P100 GPUs can be when used with NV-link, which allows systems to scale to up to 8 P100 GPUs in a single system.Â
Sadly this new PCIe Tesla P100 will be limited to PCIe bandwidth, which will limit the number of GPUs that can be used on a single server and the bandwidth that is available to them for inter-GPU communications.Â
  
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