(02-15-2016, 04:44 AM)epixoip Wrote: I would be surprised if it is more than 40% faster.
With the change from 28nm to 16nm I would be surprised to see less than 40%. TDP/performance ratio will be plus 80%, that's almost a fact. So clocks and shaders will go up and/or TDP will go down. DP also takes away some of the advantage. And they might start with smaller die like 500mm² instead of the actual 600mm² to leave some headroom for later and ramp up yield.
The new features like HBM, higher DP rate and Mixed Precision are nothing useful for hashcat as far as I know. Good for games and HPC, no matter for hashcracking. We need higher clocks and shaders, simple as that. And maybe a nice enhancement in the command set.
From what rumors tell and the past has learned us I'd guess the first to come out might be the GP104 to replace the GTX980/970. Logically price and performance should be lower than the Titan X. Maybe we see a reduced GP104 similar to the GTX970 and then they put a Ti version out later when the Titan X is replaced by the new Titan GP100.
They also might start with the GP100 for the professional market, since Maxwell is useless here.
With AMD bringing its Polaris GPUs in 14nm and with GCN 4.0, NVidia can't play around though it's hard to say how much manpower AMD has left to create something completly new and do it bigtime from the beginning. If they don't mess it up, they might be very competitive again.
But clearly nothing will happen in this half of the year.