I dunno, I would have thought that AMD announcing that second gen Navi was due in the next 12 months would encourage Nvidia to start launching Ampere GeForce cards sooner rather than later. Maybe not August, but certainly before December.
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Rumor: Nvidia Ampere (RTX 3xxx) 50% faster than current Turing GPUs at half the power consumption
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They mentioned Navi2X, but with no idea of how it performs, Nvidia is keeping things close to the chest. Ampere should at least be detailed, but Geforce pricing can wait a while
Which is pretty late in the grand scheme of things. We were expecting it if not in March then in June at least. Now I'm fairly certain that they won't bother till Sep - because why would they, with no immediate threat?
Nah, I don't expect that either. We may get some info on GA100 (likely available by the end of the year, as usual) in a couple of weeks but that's about it until Siggraph in August probably.
AMD claimed a 50% performance-per-watt increase. Which, if true, would put it right around where I'd expect Ampere to land.
That's what I mean about Ampere being detailed. They're still gonna sell Ampere Tesla, conference or no conference
Yea, but never take marketing slides at face value
Remains to be seen really. GTC has went from an event to a livestream to a series of news posts, and the latter seems a bit too light weight for an announcement of a next gen product. Also if it's anything like it was with GP100 and GV100, there won't be many gaming related info anyhow and the gaming parts themselves are very likely to end up being significantly different.
I suspect we won't be seeing anything from Nvidia until late summer or fall. the COVID-19 could even cause some delays but we have no idea. Also the launch could depend on AMD NAVI 2 hardware and performance. If they match or exceed Nvidia current hardware, there will be more pressure to release the new hardware. Otherwise, Nvidia might drag the current gen GPUs for a bit longer.
So has any more news come up on the potential 3080ti or do I have to start making plans to sell my kidney for a Titan? (which I hope is not $3000usd this time)
This is not how it works. You can't just release new h/w because something is whooping your ass on the market already. It takes at least three years to make a new GPU architecture and build a lineup of products on it. The only thing you can do is adjust the launch frames and tweak new product positions according to current market situation. Whatever NV had in the pipe for 2020 will launch in 2020, barring some end of the world scenario preventing this.
i think youre going to be very disappointed with nvidias next GPUs
I don't know about 70%, but if they don't execute a very large improvement they risk losing the lead to AMD, if XSX spec is legit consider that is an APU & a very limited power spec - they would easily be within reach of 18 tflops+ in a PC card.
Pretty much every leak so far listed ampere with a 50% performance gain over turing with vastly improved RT.
Some new rumors via wccftech just from today
Some new rumors via wccftech just from today
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those specs come from kittycorgi who's not reputable. someone who came out of nowhere claiming things that haven't been corroborated and just seems unlikely
its hard for me to see more than 50% increase at each respective tier and i think thats a best case. i also think prices will be similar to turing launch or go up even more. they arent at risk of losing anything to AMD. highly unlikely big navi can compete with a chip up to 50% faster than a 2080ti
Not quite Ampere but I thought this could be of interest:
videocardz.com
NVIDIA GeForce RTX graphics card to support DirectX 12 Ultimate API - VideoCardz.com
NVIDIA announces GeForce RTX support for DirectX 12 Ultimate. DirectX 12 Ultimate NVIDIA GeForce RTX graphics card will support DirectX 12 Ultimate with ray tracing, variable-rate shading, mesh shader and sampler feedback. Ray tracing is currently only supported by NVIDIA Turing GPUs (Tier 1.1)...
videocardz.com
Eh, kinda. It's just a new D3D12 feature level basically, consisting of everything which is there in Turing and RDNA2.
Technically DX12 doesn't support mesh shaders and sampler feedback right now since this will be added in 2004 update. But these features are here since Turing's launch and are available through VK and NVAPI.
And it's official:
devblogs.microsoft.com
community.amd.com
Announcing DirectX 12 Ultimate - DirectX Developer Blog
It is time for DirectX to evolve once again. From the team that has brought PC and Console gamers the latest in graphics innovation for nearly 25 years, we are beyond pleased to bring gamers DirectX 12 Ultimate, the culmination of the best graphics technology we’ve ever introduced in an...
devblogs.microsoft.com
Powering Next-Generation Gaming Visuals with AMD RDNA 2 and DirectX 12 Ultimate
AMD has long been a strong supporter of next-generation, low-overhead graphics API technologies like Microsoft® DirectX® 12 that help take games to a whole new level. Therefore, we’re pleased to announce that in partnership with Microsoft we will provide full support for DirectX® 12 Ultimate in...
Microsoft Announces DirectX 12 Ultimate: A New Standard for Next-Gen Games, Supported by GeForce RTX
Ray Tracing, Mesh Shading, Sampler Feedback and Variable Rate Shading, features supported since 2018 on GeForce RTX graphics cards, coming to Microsoft’s DirectX 12 Ultimate API, their new standard for next-gen games.
www.nvidia.com
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What/when is that?
If it's going to be more than a few months, I'll probably just grab a 2070S to hold me over. I need something decent to run HL: Alyx.
Late Q3 or Q4 unless plans change again.
I'm expecting gaming Ampere no later than in Aug/Sep but you know, this stuff is in a constant state of flux due to covid these days.
Nvidia postpones 'exciting' product announcements planned for this month
Guess we have to play the waiting game.
Guess we have to play the waiting game.
Guess I will get more miles out of my 2080ti which isn't a bad thing.
Are we expecting them to go back to their original release timelines and hold off on the ti for a while?
Release timelines likely aren't affected, only the announcements of some HPC level stuff, like the GV100 successor and such. Actual products on this chip would still come out in Q4 most likely, even if they'd had announced it during GTC as was planned.
I can't see neither this nor AMD's offering including CPU's being released any time soon. By now, i assume that production has been hit by Covid-19, but even if that isn't the case, the fact that majority of western countries are in early stages of this pandemic would probably put them off.
At this point we don't know how bad it is going to get and for how long, supply chains are already changing to focus mainly on what is necessary, so there would be no point of releasing a product until all this is sorted and markets are back to normality.
At this point we don't know how bad it is going to get and for how long, supply chains are already changing to focus mainly on what is necessary, so there would be no point of releasing a product until all this is sorted and markets are back to normality.
Got it. Guess I will keep an eye on things. Stuff could change in a few hours these days. hopefully things are mostly under control by then....
