Friday, January 3rd 2020
NVIDIA's Next-Generation Ampere GPUs to be 50% Faster than Turing at Half the Power
As we approach the release of NVIDIA's Ampere GPUs, which are rumored to launch in the second half of this year, more rumors and information about the upcoming graphics cards are appearing. Today, according to the latest report made by Taipei Times, NVIDIA's next-generation of graphics cards based on "Ampere" architecture is rumored to have as much as 50% performance uplift compared to the previous generations of Turing GPUs, while using having half the power consumption.
Built using Samsung's 7 nm manufacturing node, Ampere is poised to be the new king among all future GPUs. The rumored 50% performance increase is not impossible, due to features and improvements that the new 7 nm manufacturing node brings. If utilizing the density alone, NVIDIA can extract at least 50% extra performance that is due to the use of a smaller node. However, performance should increase even further because Ampere will bring new architecture as well. Combining a new manufacturing node and new microarchitecture, Ampere will reduce power consumption in half, making for a very efficient GPU solution. We still don't know if the performance will increase mostly for ray tracing applications, or will NVIDIA put the focus on general graphics performance.
Source:
Taipei Times
Built using Samsung's 7 nm manufacturing node, Ampere is poised to be the new king among all future GPUs. The rumored 50% performance increase is not impossible, due to features and improvements that the new 7 nm manufacturing node brings. If utilizing the density alone, NVIDIA can extract at least 50% extra performance that is due to the use of a smaller node. However, performance should increase even further because Ampere will bring new architecture as well. Combining a new manufacturing node and new microarchitecture, Ampere will reduce power consumption in half, making for a very efficient GPU solution. We still don't know if the performance will increase mostly for ray tracing applications, or will NVIDIA put the focus on general graphics performance.
227 Comments on NVIDIA's Next-Generation Ampere GPUs to be 50% Faster than Turing at Half the Power
How will nVidia tackle this problem?
- lower speeds?
- stronger coolers?
- other?
EDIT
Also: OP states Ampere will use TSMC's 7 nm and not Samsung's.
For gaming it means nothing - all that RTX fad-, but for rendering engines utilizing RTX, Turing leaves old generations in the dust. I'm struggling to contain my urges and this rumor has set me straight. Must not buy. I'll not look at 2080Tis anymore. ;)
Current Turing architecture on Pro side has some merits (but at inflated-monopol-price of course) , but overall if somebody buys Turing solely for gaming, it's utter waste of money.
The future is PoP, MCM, EMIB & 3D stacking ~ www.anandtech.com/show/15270/an-interconnected-interview-with-intels-ramune-nagisetty-a-future-with-foveros
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The future, as Intel have realized, is not with CPU or GPU only solutions. They're just following what you could say AMD showed with Zen. And if Nvidia don't get their act together they'll be caught napping, Nvidia's lead is certainly not infallible with the kind of hardware AMD, Intel have up on the horizon. Ironically their biggest strength in this filed is software i.e. CUDA.
- the density will be higher than "normal" 7 nm meaning even more heat concentration and / or hot spots, unless Samsung's 7 nm EUV is less denser than TSMC's "normal" 7 nm
- possibly a much higher efficiency jump VS current Turing cards, which could actually enable 50% more performance while @ 50% less power
it is confusing,but it seems like a portion of ampere will be made on high perf 7nm euv from samsung.we'll have to wait and see.why can't gpus do the same ?
Yes there's always a first time but as of now AMD & Intel are way ahead in this field. Also Nvidia still lags massively in the CPU dept, that isn't changing anytime soon.
nah,but seriously,I'm confused by this tsmc 7nm mention.
would not be surprised if smaller a107/108 dies went for tsmc,they segmented their production for big and small pascals between tsmc and glofo too IIRC.I bet rdna2 desktop cards would not like to see 3050 and 3060 production get in their way too.
Stop giving it airtime... its really a new level of sadSmaller dies may even just remain DUV as is Navi 1st gen.3070 even?! That will be a repeat if how the 1070 is now not really sufficient for 1440p, then. There are no cards for a specific res. Already we recommend 2070S (1080ti) for smooth high/ultra gaming at that res...
4K will be a struggle for the next decade, make no mistake.
a guy youtubing his commentary for TPU posts,how brave of him to avoid getting into a discussion.I bet that would go well for him.
Personally, I'll favor 1440p 144 Hz over 4K 60 Hz any day, and 4K 144 Hz is out of reach for a card in the upper mid-range for now.
I'm quite happy with 1440p 60 FPS average but even my 980 Ti is inadequate for this resolution with newer games.
That said, it still brings substantial efficiency gains (or performance gains) to the full node.
Just asking... :roll: You can never stay ahead of that techno curve baby
Anything. Even avrona has a yt channel...I'm not surprised to see some other neophyte at it... is anyone?
Double standard my ass... get your head out of the sand.