Written by Hanners
Thursday, 24 December 2009 09:19
Although we won't be seeing products based on "Fermi" (aka GF100) until a few months into 2010, NVIDIA have already announced their first Tesla-based offerings that will be using this architecture. However, what we weren't expecting to see was for these parts to be using a cut-down version of GF100 with fewer Stream Processors - is this a sign of further issues for NVIDIA's latest and greatest architecture, or simply a design decision for these particular parts?
As reported previously, Nvidia Tesla C2050 and C2070 computing processor boards are single-chip cards with 3GB and 6GB (respectively) of on-board GDDR5 memory (with ECC enabled, user available memory will be 2.625GB for a C2050 and to 5.25GB for a C2070) with 384-bit interface operating in the range between 1.80GHz and 2.0GHz. The cards are mostly designed for desktop-based high-performance computing and other compute-intensive applications and are not meant to do perform graphics tasks. Nvidia stated that its new Tesla solutions will deliver double precision performance in the range of 520GFlops – 630GFlops.
Previously it was widely believed that the new Nvidia Tesla C2000 boards based on the Tesla T20 GPUs will feature 512 stream processors at 1.25GHz – 1.40GHz clock-speeds, the fully-fledged configuration of the company’s GF100 chip (also known as NV60, G300, GT300, etc) based on Fermi architecture at slightly reduced clock-speeds. However, Nvidia decided to cut down the Tesla C20 GPU for some undisclosed reasons.
Previously it was widely believed that the new Nvidia Tesla C2000 boards based on the Tesla T20 GPUs will feature 512 stream processors at 1.25GHz – 1.40GHz clock-speeds, the fully-fledged configuration of the company’s GF100 chip (also known as NV60, G300, GT300, etc) based on Fermi architecture at slightly reduced clock-speeds. However, Nvidia decided to cut down the Tesla C20 GPU for some undisclosed reasons.
You can find the full PDF document containing these specifications on NVIDIA's web site, while X-Bit Labs has the full story.