Monday, August 10th 2020
Video Memory Sizes Set to Swell as NVIDIA Readies 20GB and 24GB GeForce Amperes
NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 20-series "Turing" graphics card series did not increase video memory sizes in comparison to GeForce GTX 10-series "Pascal," although the memory itself is faster on account of GDDR6. This could change with the GeForce RTX 30-series "Ampere," as the company looks to increase memory sizes across the board in a bid to shore up ray-tracing performance. WCCFTech has learned that in addition to a variety of strange new memory bus widths, such as 320-bit, NVIDIA could introduce certain higher variants of its RTX 30-series cards with video memory sizes as high as 20 GB and 24 GB.
Memory sizes of 20 GB or 24 GB aren't new for NVIDIA's professional-segment Quadro products, but it's certainly new for GeForce, with only the company's TITAN-series products breaking the 20 GB-mark at prices due north of $2,000. Much of NVIDIA's high-end appears to be resting on segmentation of the PG132 common board design, coupled with the GA102 silicon, from which the company could carve out several SKUs spaced far apart in the company's product stack. NVIDIA's next-generation GeForce "Ampere" family is expected to debut in September 2020, with product launches in the higher-end running through late-Q3 and Q4 of 2020.
Sources:
WCCFTech, VideoCardz
Memory sizes of 20 GB or 24 GB aren't new for NVIDIA's professional-segment Quadro products, but it's certainly new for GeForce, with only the company's TITAN-series products breaking the 20 GB-mark at prices due north of $2,000. Much of NVIDIA's high-end appears to be resting on segmentation of the PG132 common board design, coupled with the GA102 silicon, from which the company could carve out several SKUs spaced far apart in the company's product stack. NVIDIA's next-generation GeForce "Ampere" family is expected to debut in September 2020, with product launches in the higher-end running through late-Q3 and Q4 of 2020.
65 Comments on Video Memory Sizes Set to Swell as NVIDIA Readies 20GB and 24GB GeForce Amperes
How about we don't, for once, and show TPU this is not the kind of headlines we need. @btarunr take note
I love how the PG board numbers are added (totally irrelevant) as if that somehow lends more credibility to it all.
Until we have an actual leak of something, we shouldn't assume anything.
And for those wondering; Nvidia can certainly double memory if they want to, but it's getting late in the game to do such changes, as they can't be done after the cards are made.
They post a crappy article then TPU picks it up, then it gets reposted on a bunch of subreddits and then bunch of random tech sites end up quoting TPU as the source.
Such websites and most tech news YouTube channels have the same business model; search Reddit, forums and bulletin boards to see what is trending, and generate something to feed the demand, with some occasional spicy or controversial twist.Yes, so did GTX 280/285.
But I believe it's getting more and more challenging with higher memory speeds.
Memory compression certainly saves some bandwidth and capacity, but this is mostly for sparse data. This is not to be confused with texture compression, which is applied in advance by the game.
Personally i doubt it. I'll believe it when i see it.
Its like saying this graphics card is not new because we had graphics cards before.
Yes a 320bit bus has been done before, but not with this type of memory which calculates differently and its new information for these new cards.
What's really funny I didn't read and see the playboy discussion later in the thread until after I posted.
I really don't see a point in more than 12GB/16GB for this generation.
As i eagerly await for the new products to launch, every little info i can get on them keeps me excited and motivated to keep saving money and resist current bargains.
Even if it is pure speculation i have no problem with it as long as it is clearly stated.
Past experience shows that the closer we get at a product launch, leaks become more and more accurate.
I cannot understand people complaining for this kind of info.
If we follow the path of posting only 100% confirmed news, sites could be inactive/dead for several days or even weeks on the same headlines.
Tech enthusiasts need daily updates for their beloved products and sites need clicks and activity in order to survive.
Feel free to introduce your own boring frozen site and good luck funding it without an active community.
Thank you TPU for keeping us on the very edge of technology :peace: