NVIDIA ‘Ampere’ 8nm Graphics Cards

PainterUK · 1 Sep 2020 at 11:29

smr said:
If the 3080 is £600 I'm going for that. Will be nice to have an even better graphics card than the current gen's top tier, for that price.

Same here. Either that or 2080ti second hand. The issue I'm predicting is that most 2080ti holders will be too attached to what they paid for it, not reducing their prices much, even if the newly launched cards come cheaper/better.

Jono8 · 1 Sep 2020 at 11:32

PainterUK said:
even if the newly launched cards come cheaper/better.

Well that's a given whatever happens.

opethdisciple · 1 Sep 2020 at 11:32

I'd be very happy with a card that performs like a 2080ti in regular rasterization but with 2x RT performance for around £600.

That would be good.

Richdog · 1 Sep 2020 at 11:32

RavenXXX2 said:

Ok this is simply the best Nvidia meme ever created... I genuinely lol'd. Kudos to the guy who came up with that.

Chuk_Chuk · 1 Sep 2020 at 11:34

opethdisciple said:
If AMD can sprinkle even a little Ryzen magic dust on to RDNA2 then they might be able to deliver something significant.

But Nvidia are not Intel. They have not been getting complacent and resting on their laurels. They have more gas in the tank if they need to raise the stakes should AMD deliver a challenge in the market.

They were complacent with Turing. If the rumours surronding the development of Ampere and Nvidias relationship with TSMC are true, they were complacent again with Ampere.

McGraw · 1 Sep 2020 at 11:35

PainterUK said:
Same here. Either that or 2080ti second hand. The issue I'm predicting is that most 2080ti holders will be too attached to what they paid for it, not reducing their prices much, even if the newly launched cards come cheaper/better.

yeah if you’ve got a £1200 2080ti you would have to shift for £600 then find another big chunk of money for a 3080 or 3090, those extra frames don’t seem worth it anymore.

That’s the hole you dig for yourself though when you buy such a poor value card.

HACO · 1 Sep 2020 at 11:35

£1000 is burning a hole in my pocket and I hope I can buy something better than a 3070 with it

Darujhistan · 1 Sep 2020 at 11:35

varkanoid said:
Can you clarify that statement as I dont give a pipers tickle about pricing, VRAM, or performance. Certainly not going to go out and try a pre-order a card. Probably be happy with my 8gb card till next year and will wait till the dust settles. (or the fighting whichever is quicker)

The longer you wait the more you save...

Toothy1911 · 1 Sep 2020 at 11:36

I hope they make it clear there will or wont be TI / super versions of the cards coming.

sprite- · 1 Sep 2020 at 11:37

Chuk_Chuk said:
They were complacent with Turing. If the rumours surronding the development of Ampere and Nvidias relationship with TSMC are true, they were complacent again with Ampere.

I think the big difference in Intel and Nvidia situation is that Intel have exploited the market so long they've put themselves massively behind from an innovation standpoint, with catastrophic fab process failures.

Where Nvidia have just exploited the market, knowing full well they can pull a rabbit out of their hats within 12 months and give us what they're really capable of producing.

Darujhistan · 1 Sep 2020 at 11:37

Toothy1911 said:
I hope they make it clear there will or wont be TI / super versions of the cards coming.

There will be though, what you just bought will have been superceded slightly at a premium a few months later.

McGraw · 1 Sep 2020 at 11:37

Toothy1911 said:
I hope they make it clear there will or wont be TI / super versions of the cards coming.

Would be meaningless. They could change their mind and why would they tell the market it’s worth waiting,.

milky milky

spikerules · 1 Sep 2020 at 11:38

I can't remember with previous launches if overclockers will update their site as soon as the cards are revealed? Will we see them on the site tonight?

Darujhistan · 1 Sep 2020 at 11:40

They'll milk the **** of this series like they did the last one, they're VRAM milking already.

Toothy1911 · 1 Sep 2020 at 11:40

Darujhistan said:
There will be though, what you just bought will have been superceded slightly at a premium a few months later.

2080ti was launched same time as 2080, within a week. And announced at launch. I bought the 2080ti with confidence it wasn't going to be superseded. I hope I can do the same this gen.

beany_bot · 1 Sep 2020 at 11:40

spikerules said:
I can't remember with previous launches if overclockers will update their site as soon as the cards are revealed? Will we see them on the site tonight?

They wont sell Nvidia cards. Partner cards will come later. Nvidia will sell the £100 extra hot and loud cards to the morons first.

spikerules · 1 Sep 2020 at 11:41

beany_bot said:
They wont sell Nvidia cards. Partner cards will come later. Nvidia will sell the £100 extra hot and loud cards to the morons first.

Ah I forgot about the founder editions. So we won't even see preorders today?

wookiee87 · 1 Sep 2020 at 11:41

spikerules said:
I can't remember with previous launches if overclockers will update their site as soon as the cards are revealed? Will we see them on the site tonight?

best off looking and nvidias website, when the 2080ti event was live the cards were revealed a good 15mins on the site before jenson brought them on stage for the first time

McGraw · 1 Sep 2020 at 11:42

beany_bot said:
They wont sell Nvidia cards. Partner cards will come later. Nvidia will sell the £100 extra hot and loud cards to the morons first.

Actually the morons IMO are the people who spend hundreds extra on a bit of noise and temperature reduction and maybe some fancy lights.

Woodsta888 · 1 Sep 2020 at 11:43

beany_bot said:
They wont sell Nvidia cards. Partner cards will come later. Nvidia will sell the £100 extra hot and loud cards to the morons first.

The people who liquid cool are morons? Blower cards also have their place in SFF cases where the heat isn't exhausted off the card directly into the case, rather straight out of the case through the card. What a stupid thing to say.