Nvidia has come out with what seems to be the first non-consumer Volta-based Tesla graphics V100 in a launch event this week. CEO Jen-Hsun Huang announced their new product that's primarily intended for high-performance computing. Volta completes Nvidia's current roadmap for consumer graphics.

AnandTech has a detailed report of the new Volta-based Tesla V100 graphics from Nvidia. It's a totally new architecture while retaining the same internal organization but offers a different core layout and memory controllers among many other things. The new Tensor cores work great, especially for machine learning operations.

The Tesla V100 graphics will be having a capacity of 16GB vRAM based on HBM2 technology with a clock speed of 1.75Gbps, a significant improvement by 25% as the report states. An in-depth write-up from Ars Technica about the new volta-based chip clearly mentions that it's an HPC variant card rather than a consumer variant. As per speculations, the consumer chips will likely be unveiled in 2018, since Nvidia's current mainstream graphics lineup is the Pascal-series of graphics card offered in both GDDR5 and GDDR5X architecture.

Nvidia's promotional video on YouTube showcased the capacity of Volta chips especially in machine learning on which the entire video was based on displaying various activities like gaming, Ice Hockey, painting, and music etc. The Tesla V100 graphics will help AI by implementing smart technology on robots that were demonstrated in the video. The field of medicine too will benefit not only in identifying new diseases but will also greatly help in finding cures to existing diseases

Now that the first Volta-based Tesla V100 is released, the gaming industry patiently awaits the arrival of the next generation of consumer grade graphics especially since reports indicate even the consumer variants will feature HBM2. The current lineup of flagship consumer graphics from Nvidia includes the GTX 1080 Ti, and the Titan Xp while the budget-end consumer cards begin at a price of 250$ going up all the way up to 1200$ for the Titan card.