Rumor: Nvidia Unveils Mobile Pascal GPUs at Computex 2016

Nvidia is said to be planning to introduce GPUs based on the new Pascal architecture in mid-June during the Computex trade show in Taiwan. It will probably be the mobile variants and not the desktop card version.

The introduction of the first Pascal GPUs will take place in the summer during the Computex and will mainly be aimed at gaming laptops, SweClockers claims based on sources. According to the site, it is not the GP100 GPU for desktop video cards, but a mobile replacement for the GM204 and GM206 GPUs. Those GPUs are still based on the Maxwell architecture and are used for the GTX 965M up to and including the GTX 980.

With Pascal, Nvidia is making the switch from 28nm to the 16nm process with TSMC’s finfet transistors. According to previous rumors, the GP100 will have 17 billion transistors, more than double the GM200 of the Titan X and 980 Ti. In addition, the GPU could be equipped with a maximum of 32GB HBM2 memory, have a 4096-bit wide bus and offer a processing power of up to 12 tflops, Videocardz wrote earlier this month on the basis of an old presentation.

Nvidia could reveal more details about Pascal at its GPU Technology Conference in early April. The CEO of the company will give a keynote there.

Competitor AMD already gave a look at its new Polaris architecture in January, the GPUs of which should appear later in 2016. In April, Lenovo laptops with Radeon 400M GPUs will appear, but it is not known whether these are video chips based on the new architecture.