While some earlier rumors suggested that Nvidia might stick with GDDR5 memory for its upcoming Pascal based Geforce series graphics cards, the newest rumor points out that some SKUs, most specifically, the so called GTX 1080, could actually feature faster GDDR5X memory.

A fresh report from Bitsandchips.it, citing a post over at Chiphell.com forums, suggest that Nvidia's GP104-400 GPU, which should be the GPU behind the upcoming GTX 1080, could end up with 8GB of GDDR5X memory on a 384-bit memory interface.

The GP104-200 GPU, which is expected to packs slighlty less CUDA cores and be behind the GTX 1070 graphics card, could be the one to come with 8GB GDDR5 memory on a 256-bit memory interface, which should differentiate those two graphics cards.

The GP104 GPU die was pictured earlier and is expected to pack around 7.4 to 7.9 billion transistors and somewhere around 2560 CUDA cores, depending on the SKU. It is based on the new 16nm FinFET manufacturing process and should offer 2x the performance per Watt compared to current Maxwell GPU architecture.

The new Nvidia Pascal-based Geforce graphics cards are rumored to launch in June at the Computex 2016 show.



Source: Bitsandchips.it.