Over 1500 cores, with new core designs. One core runs the Samaritan demo.
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We've been expecting GPUs based on Kepler — Nvidia's 28nm successor to the Fermi line — since the company first revealed the product's existence back in 2010. Things seem to be getting closer now, with Epic Games showing off a demo on Kepler hardware at this week's Game Developers Conference, and details on the first shipping commercial product starting to leak. Heise Online is reporting that several manufacturers at the CeBIT expo stated that the first Kepler-powered card will be the GeForce GTX 680. Powered by the GK104 core, the card will reportedly ship with 2GB of GDDR5 memory connected via a 256-bit memory controller, and will feature 1536 CUDA cores. A 4GB version will be available at a later date. The card is also said to...