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NVIDIA ‘Ampere’ 8nm Graphics Cards

So it will probably be the 3080 launching first with AMD coming a couple of months later with slightly better performance, only to be beaten again by the 3080ti/90 shortly afterwards.

All I know for sure is that I won be upgrading as I have a 2070s, my next upgrade will be a Ryzen CPU to replace my Xenon [email protected], I quite fancy a 12 core next. :)
 
random_matt said:
So that would mean Nvidia can go with one of two strategies. 1) Go cheaper and suck the market dry, 2) Go expensive because it will be the only new thing for buyers.
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Or three get all the cash from the early adopters wait for AMD release see how close it is and drop a super refresh 6 months after the initial release on 7nm devaluing the 1st gen cards.
 
kazuya1337 said:
Or three get all the cash from the early adopters wait for AMD release see how close it is and drop a super refresh 6 months after the initial release on 7nm devaluing the 1st gen cards.
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Would not surprise me at all. I will just get a 3070 so probably won't devalue more than £100.
 
Jay85 said:
I can live with a new cable but not getting a beefier psu! Surely a 750W 80+ gold is still more than enough these days?
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If you don't go for the best (as in OC from the factory + top end GPU) and no heavy OC (basically still ok in terms of efficiency), even lesser PSUs should be fine. I have a Enermax 525W PRO SLI which I think has now around 7-8 years and has no issues with RTX2080, 2600xt, 2x16GB RAM, 3xHDD, 2xSDD, 1NVME + 7 fans (not including the one from the CPU :)) ).

The only way problems could appear if overclocking is involved, plus some 3rd party cards, with higher power/clocks and some Intel CPU with overclock as well.
 
Calin Banc said:
If you don't go for the best (as in OC from the factory + top end GPU) and no heavy OC (basically still ok in terms of efficiency), even lesser PSUs should be fine. I have a Enermax 525W PRO SLI which I think has now around 7-8 years and has no issues with RTX2080, 2600xt, 2x16GB RAM, 3xHDD, 2xSDD, 1NVME + 7 fans (not including the one from the CPU :)) ).

The only way problems could appear if overclocking is involved, plus some 3rd party cards, with higher power/clocks and some Intel CPU with overclock as well.
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Tbh the only thing i overclock these days is the cpu as i feel thats the only thing thats worth doing. GPU these days clock themselves higher dependent on thermals so theres no real need to manually overclock them, ram you just slap on xmp and away you go.
 
Jay85 said:
I would cry if that was the case! Imagine the heat output of a single gpu that requires more than 750w of juice!
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A realistic power limit for a 700W PSU would be a 400W GPU: 250W for the CPU (say a Threadripper or overclocked 10900K), 400W for a GPU, 50W for the motherboard and everything else.
 
Jay85 said:
Tbh the only thing i overclock these days is the cpu as i feel thats the only thing thats worth doing. GPU these days clock themselves higher dependent on thermals so theres no real need to manually overclock them, ram you just slap on xmp and away you go.
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With Ryzen CPU's, RAM overclocking/tightened timings make much more of a difference than CPU overclocking. Intel already has good latency, so RAM doesn't do as much for them.
 
Jacky60 said:
Looks like anyone with less than 1000W should be worried......
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For SLI maybe and only IF you also have a high power draw CPU like a overclocked 10900k/3950x/3960x/10980xe etc

I can imagine someone here will have an overclocked 10980xe and go with 3080ti SLI and overclocked both GPU's.

We're talking 1000w just for the CPU and GPUs lol
 
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