First details on NVIDIAs next generation GeForce GTX 880 graphics cards are emerging these days. If we believe a report posted on Tyden.cz, then the GTX 880 will be based on NVIDIA's GM204 GPU, which should be quick enough to even outperform today's mighty GK110 chip.


So far it looks like the GM204 is not going to be the most powerfull "Maxwell" based GPU. Judging by the product names NVIDIA is going to play the cards the same way like with their GK100 series VGA's. Ultimately this means, they might als be working on a massive GM210 GPU. Nevertheless the GM204 should be quick enough to outperform a GK110 and it will certainly support DirectX 12. Other than that "Maxwell" architecture will feature SMM (Streaming Multiprocessor Maxwell) SIMD design, which derives from the GeForce GTX 750 Ti. Obviously, there will be more of everything: more transistors, more CUDA cores, more TMUs, more ROPs, ... how much more, that you'll find in the table below:

• 20 nm GM204 silicon
• 7.9 billion transistors
• 3,200 CUDA cores
• 200 TMUs
• 32 ROPs
• 5.7 TFLOP/s single-precision floating-point throughput
• 256-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface
• 4 GB standard memory amount
• 238 GB/s memory bandwidth
• Clock speeds of 900 MHz core, 950 MHz GPU Boost, 7.40 GHz memory
• 230W board power

Source: Tyden.cz