At the annual conference at the NVIDIA GPU tech in San Jose, the company introduced its new GPU architecture Volta. According to the manufacturer, Volta represents the world’s most powerful GPU architecture. It is designed to speed up work in the field of artificial intelligence and high performance computing. In addition, he was presented the first to accelerate on the basis of the Volta — Tesla V100, designed for data centers.
Volta is the seventh generation graphics architectures of NVIDIA. It is based on 21 billion transistors, it combines the CUDA kernel and the new kernel Volta Tensor in a unified architecture. According to NVIDIA, the peak performance of Volta 5 times higher architecture Pascal, the current generation of graphics architecture NVIDIA, and 15 times higher than the Maxwell presented two years ago.
Accelerator Tesla V100 is based on the 12-nanometer GPU GV100 with 5376 CUDA cores, 672 cores Tensor, 16 GB of memory HBM2, an updated interface NVLink 2.0 , providing the computing power of 15 TFLOPS.