Gamers waiting for a worthy upgrade will soon get it with the upcoming NVIDIA Pascal GPU. With the graphic card's higher bandwidth capabilities and speed, serious video game enthusiasts will soon be enjoying crisper graphics and clearer details.

The NVIDIA Pascal was unveiled last March during the GTC event in San Jose, with the company releasing more details about the Pascal during GTC Japan.

According to "VRWorld," NVIDIA is looking to enhance the already impressive power productivity that its Maxwell based cards offer with the Pascal. With the Pascal GPU, devices can double the output per Watt that the Maxwell architecture now gives, thanks to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) 16nm FinFET process. This is a significant process as it transitions from 2D to 3D transistors, thereby increasing the power saved.

"Wccftech" reported that NVIDIA will cram 17 billion transistors in the Pascal GPU's core, which is twice what's found on the GM200 Maxwell and the Fiji XT GPU. The new graphics chip has been developed by NVIDIA to be the premiere compute focused graphics architecture that will be used by even GeForce, Quadro and Tesla.

The Pascal GPU will reportedly offer 16GB memory plus four 4GB HBM2 memory chips and up to 32Gb of HBM2 memory in their Pascal based products. It's also expected to have 1TB/s on products that carry 16GB HBM2 memory while the internal bandwidth could reach 2 TB/s.

The new GPU will also be introducing the NVLINK, the next-gen Unified Virtual Memory link that boasts of Gen 2.0 Cache features and five to twelve times the bandwidth of ordinary PCIe connections. This is quite an impressive upgrade when compared to what is currently being offered the PLX PCIe Gen3 bridge-chip. The new technology will undoubtedly solve many bandwidth issues that high performance GPUs are facing. The NVLINK will also open the doors for several GPUs to be connected, with gamers able to use up to 8GPUs in their gaming PCs. However, NVIDIA did not share how much memory performance will be reduced by the ECC (Error Correcting Code).

NVIDIA's Pascal GPU might hit the market as early as the second quarter of 2016.