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Enter the GP104. According to rumours reported on by TweakTown<\/a>, NVIDIA is testing their GP104 GPU alongside a successor to GDDR5 RAM, GDDR5X.<\/p>\n GDDR5X RAM will allow for an estimated bandwidth of 448GB\/sec, faster than even the GTX Titan X<\/a>, but it won\u2019t be able to compete with AMD\u2019s Fury range, so who is GDDR5X for?<\/p>\n The GP104 nomenclature suggests a GPU powering the Pascal equivalent of the GTX 980 and GTX 970, while the GP100 powers the more monstrous GTX Titan X and GTX 980Ti equivalents, but that\u2019s a lot less bandwidth than we were expecting for what is supposed to be high-end graphics cards \u2013 the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070, or whatever they call them.<\/p>\n HBM 2 will more than likely mean a higher price tag, but is the reduced performance worth it, or is NVIDIA shifting gears and targeting these cards at the midrange to high-end while the GP100 cards will be more run-of-the-mill enthusiast cards.<\/p>\n If we think about it a little more, GDDR5X does make a lot of sense. With the greatly increased compute performance of the GP104 over the GM204, the cards it powers will likely reach the performance of the GTX Titan X, or just about, and a noticeable increase in bandwidth over the GTX Titan X should mean removing any bottlenecks.<\/p>\n The immense bandwidth provided by HBM2 will likely be wasted on these cards. And with 440+GB\/sec of bandwidth, these cards should more than handle 4k resolutions as well as VR tech for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n It will mean a much cheaper price tag than if NVIDIA used HBM2, so will it mean seeing cards that are a lot faster than AMD\u2019s Fury X but at a much more affordable price. AMD is in trouble if that\u2019s what happens.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n