NVIDIA has just announced that its next-generation of graphics processor (GPU) architecture codenamed Maxwell. This is in reference to James Clerk Maxwell, a scientist 19th century scientist known for his work on the electromagnetic field (he was the first person to unify optics, magnetism and electricity as being driven by the same phenomenon). NVIDIA has a tradition of naming its GPU architectures from famous scientists which goes all the way back to the NV04 chip which was codenamed Fahrenheit.
The Maxwell GPU design is manufactured on the same 28nm semiconductor process as the previous generation GPU: the NVIDIA Kepler (as seen in the GeForce GTX 680), so the performance improvements come from architectural changes and optimizations, but also from a slightly larger die-size area (148 vs. 118 square millimeters. (more…)
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