Nvidia's Graphics Technology Conference 2014 (GTC 2014) is scheduled to kick off today and according to a report coming from Pro-Clockers forums, we will see some rather interesting novelties, including the 20nm Maxwell GPU architecture with Unified Memory Architecture.

There was a lot of talk regarding the 20nm manufacturing process and the situation where GPU manufacturers might skip it but now it is pretty much confirmed as Nvidia will officially unveil its 20nm Maxwell GPU architecture which will feature the Unified Memory Architecture with Unified Virtual Memory.

We already had a chance to see Nvidia's Maxwell architecture wit the GM107 GPU, which is behind the Geforce GTX 750 and GTX 750 Ti graphics cards, and even at 28nm, this GPU was highly efficient. The Unified Virtual Memory support will allow the GPU and CPU to share both the system and graphics memory but we guess we will know more about the actual performance gains as well as other details once the GTC 2014 kicks off.

In addition to the 20nm Maxwell GPU, Nvidia will showcase several demos based on the DirectX 12 and OpenGL APIs, and although we have already seen the Forza 5 running on DirectX 12, we certainly hope we will see a couple of other demos during GTC 2014.

Nvidia will also show a couple of other interesting things including the new recently mentioned new Geforce driver which Nvidia calls its "best Geforce driver yet" but we will talk about that a bit later.

The live stream for the event will be available via Twitch.tv and kick off today at 9 AM PDT (5PM CET).





Source: Pro-Clockers.com, Twitch.tv/Nvidia.