{"id":117519,"date":"2017-05-11T15:43:06","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T13:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=117519"},"modified":"2017-05-11T15:43:40","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T13:43:40","slug":"nvidia-reveals-powerful-volta-graphics-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/117519-nvidia-reveals-powerful-volta-graphics-architecture","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia reveals powerful Volta graphics architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nvidia has launched <a href=\"http:\/\/nvidianews.nvidia.com\/news\/nvidia-launches-revolutionary-volta-gpu-platform-fueling-next-era-of-ai-and-high-performance-computing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Volta<\/strong><\/a>, \u201cthe world\u2019s most powerful GPU computing architecture\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The platform was designed to\u00a0drive the next wave of advancement in artificial intelligence and high-performance computing, said Nvidia.<\/p>\n<p>The company also announced its first Volta-based processor, the Nvidia\u00a0Tesla V100 data cente GPU, which brings \u201cextraordinary speed and scalability for AI inferencing and training\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Volta is Nvidia\u2019s seventh-generation GPU architecture, and is built with 21 billion transistors. It delivers the equivalent performance of 100 CPUs for deep learning, said the company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt provides a 5-times improvement over Pascal in peak teraflops, and 15-times over the Maxwell architecture, launched two years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis performance surpasses by 4-times the improvements that Moore\u2019s law would have predicted,\u201d said Nvidia.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/210356-nvidia-launches-revolutionary-volta-gpu-platform.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MyBroadband<\/a><\/strong> and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/210138-new-alienware-15-gaming-laptops-south-african-pricing.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">New Alienware 15 gaming laptops \u2013 South African pricing<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nvidia has launched Volta, \u201cthe world\u2019s most powerful GPU computing architecture\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":105821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[47,45,22253],"class_list":["post-117519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-gpu","tag-nvidia","tag-volta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}