Nvidia Ampere might launch as GeForce GTX 2070 and 2080 on April 12th

opethdisciple · 18 Feb 2018 at 16:28

daresso · 18 Feb 2018 at 17:14

I hope Nvidia knows that miners are going to cause higher demand than usual

silvagti · 18 Feb 2018 at 18:32

I guess an improvement in performance is a given but does anyone know or care to speculate what other features and standards, if any, the new Nvidia video cards will bring?

V F · 18 Feb 2018 at 19:20

silvagti said:
I guess an improvement in performance is a given but does anyone know or care to speculate what other features and standards, if any, the new Nvidia video cards will bring?

Speculate? :rolleyes:

DarrenM343 · 19 Feb 2018 at 08:21

Improvements to DX12 performance

JediFragger · 19 Feb 2018 at 08:40

DarrenM343 said:
Improvements to DX12 performance

Yeah, it switches to DX11 automatically

orbitalwalsh · 19 Feb 2018 at 08:49

opethdisciple said:
Claims no launch at GDC or GTC.

have stated H2 on here on different threads. wait till leaked vendor roads maps pour out

ubersonic · 19 Feb 2018 at 08:56

DragonQ said:
I agree that PC gaming is a more expensive hobby these days and the lack of overclocking etc. does take some fun out of it.

There isn't really a lack of overclocking, just a lack of a need.

I.E when you buy the Gigabyte Aorus Geforce 1080TI "Xtreme Edition" all you have to do is take it out of the box, install it then load a game and it will overclock itself by ~25% over factory base. Likewise when you install any modern CPU it will overclock itself by 10-20% per core.

Nasher · 19 Feb 2018 at 09:33

Yes and I find nvidia cards degrade and become unstable with that auto overclocking, which you don't seem to be able to disable :/

Similar with auto CPU overclocks, they will often use way to much voltage.

Razor Time · 19 Feb 2018 at 10:09

Nasher said:
Yes and I find nvidia cards degrade and become unstable with that auto overclocking, which you don't seem to be able to disable :/

I have never come across this. :confused:

opethdisciple · 19 Feb 2018 at 10:33

I don't know if it's in Nvidia's interest to launch a new line-up with current GPU prices.

There are arguments for and against it.

JediFragger · 19 Feb 2018 at 10:53

Nasher said:
Similar with auto CPU overclocks, they will often use way to much voltage.

Pascal doesn't like extra volts very much it seems, which is why I never bother with it. As long as I can hit a solid 2Ghz+ on a Pascal card then I'm fine with that, gone are the days of trying to squeeze that last 0.5fps out of a card for the sake of stability!!!

sideways14a · 19 Feb 2018 at 11:01

Would not be surprised if Nvidia doesnt release anything new anytime soon, to be honest all i am expecting this year is a pascal refresh from them - few changes here and there, maybe a node drop or something and ... thats your new gpu.
But meh but AMD is doing the same, says a lot about the state of GPUs this year if this does happen.

JediFragger · 19 Feb 2018 at 12:14

sideways14a said:
to be honest all i am expecting this year is a pascal refresh from them

Tbf a Pascal refresh (with a few tweaks like hardware Async etc) will be all that's needed to bury AMD this year.

Gregster · 19 Feb 2018 at 12:31

Nasher said:
Yes and I find nvidia cards degrade and become unstable with that auto overclocking, which you don't seem to be able to disable :/

Similar with auto CPU overclocks, they will often use way to much voltage.

Really? Never seen this in all my years of owning NVidia.

dits · 19 Feb 2018 at 12:35

personally i don't care if Ampere is dressed up 1080, as long as it's under £699 i'm buying it

FoxEye · 19 Feb 2018 at 12:43

JediFragger said:
Tbf a Pascal refresh (with a few tweaks like hardware Async etc) will be all that's needed to bury AMD this year.

Do nV need to release anything "new" at all to bury AMD this year? They could just keep selling the 10 series and AMD are screwed

sideways14a · 19 Feb 2018 at 12:47

AMD were supposed to be doing a vega shrink were they not? I presume nvidia will do the same.

JediFragger · 19 Feb 2018 at 12:55

FoxEye said:
Do nV need to release anything "new" at all to bury AMD this year? They could just keep selling the 10 series and AMD are screwed

Imagine if they come out and say that the new line-up is going to support Adaptive-Sync/Freesync.... :eek:

Dead.com.

DragonQ · 19 Feb 2018 at 13:59

JediFragger said:
Imagine if they come out and say that the new line-up is going to support Adaptive-Sync/Freesync.... Dead.com.

Quite possibly. The only things AMD really has in its pocket right now are (a) the prospect of more developers utilising Vulkan and DX12 APIs, and (b) nVidia's lack of Adaptive Sync support. Raw performance, particularly in DX11, and power usage are solidly in nVidia's court right now.

Actually thinking about it, I wonder if the mining craze is hurting or helping AMD. If GPU prices were "normal", would nVidia's market share be even higher as Vega holdouts switched camps? Or are the stupid prices and product sell-outs helping AMD?