NVIDIA announced that it plans to integrate a high-speed interconnect, called NVIDIA NVLink, into its future GPUs, enabling GPUs and CPUs to share data five to 12 times faster than they can today. Thi... NVIDIA Launches NVLINK - High-Speed GPU Interconnect
It is talking about a new connection method, which means new motherboard slots, new chipsets etc., as well as the CPU support. It's intention isn't mainstream.
Considering its called NVlink, without any definition as to what NV means, it's easy to assume that this is proprietary. What confuses me is if this actually has intended use with x86 - IBM doesn't support x86 and I haven't heard any sources saying intel or AMD will support it. But what I don't get is why this is necessary. As far as I'm aware, we haven't even saturated PCIe 2.0 yet (at least with modern single-GPU cards). I could understand this fixing latency issues, but I never got the impression latency was all that bad. PCIe should have plenty of bandwidth. I'm not against the idea of having a successor to AGP (PCIe is more of a successor to PCI), but I don't see nvidia getting very far with this in the PC market if they can't at least get intel on board with this. I hope both AMD and intel support it, because this (and DDR4 memory) make a good milestone for me to do a complete system upgrade. I only do full upgrades whenever there's a major system-wide change.
To me it sounds like they are putting an IBM Power CPU on the GPU card to act as a middle-ground between the main GPU functionality and the main CPU. Basically, offload as much as you can and make the GPU its own virtual machine. I am curious how they are going to accomplish the direct main memory access unless they have some new connector, or somehow the GPU will connect directly to the RAM slots.
NV just means Nvidia Also, I'm fairly certain this is mostly intended for large datacenter / supercomputer applications. Not so much PCs.
NvLink = CAPI from IBM ( both Nvidia and IBM have developp it, even if they call it differently ), this is basically the Hypertransport Link from AMD or QPI for Intel.. Anyway AMD have a different system for interconnect the systems ( with Supermicro professional system ). It can be used anyway for do the connection GPU to GPU, but i dont think it will be used this way for SLI ( too costly and useless ) This technology effectively dont look to be made for desktop GPU, this is for supercomputer or HPC professional system. you have a cable "mezzanine" who rely the motherboard of one system to the other motherboard for transfer faster the information between a cpu to cpu, or gpu to gpu in the whole system ... I dont know what to think about it, comparable system is allready existing and if IBM was allready developp it, this mean all other actors of supercomputers, HPC are doing the same if it is not allready the case.
Nice one but still this is NOT FOR DESKTOP PC and NvLink = CAPI is a little to much i think NvLink is way better !
Nvidia and IBM have team up for develop it as mentionned during the conference by Nvidia, IBM will still call it CAPi ( even if in 2016 this will be CAPi "2.0" or who know what version it will be )...
