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This Pascal GPU, going by the codename ‘Big Pascal’, is the first in the Pascal family and it’s going to be designed for next-generation high-performance computing and consumer graphics cards.

Of most interest to gamers is that it’s going to be Nvidia’s first GPU to feature High Bandwidth Memory (HBM), rather than the current industry standard - GDDR5. AMD’s upcoming Fiji GPU will be sporting HBM1, but Nvidia is skipping straight to HBM2, which is both faster and allows for 8Hi stacks of memory. Where HBM1 is limited to 4GB HBM per GPU, HBM2 theoretically allows for up to 32GB, with a maximum memory bandwidth of 1.2TB/s.

Taking to the stage earlier this year, during Nvidia’s GTX presentation, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang claimed the Pascal GPU will offer 10x the performance of Maxwell, a staggering achievement if in any way true.

- by Stuart Thomas

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