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NVIDIA ‘Ampere’ 8nm Graphics Cards

dreigns said:
It never does, its not a 1:1 gain so just doubling there count does not mean it will double performance and it never does.
Its all about the efficiency of using the transistors in a way that get you the best ipc gain and they have increased that while keeping power as low as possible 320w vs 225w with a good uplift per clock on a new process is not that bad.
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Also not all transistors that are added in a node shrink combined with the same or larger die size (more raw transistors) are dedicated to raw compute or rasterization. In the case of the 2xxx series for example a large swath of these new transistors were dedicated towards Tensor cores and RT cores which are mostly a benefit to the new features of DLSS and Ray Tracing. Ray tracing especially is incredibly slow on general purpose compute transistors and that's why there's space on the chips dedicated to RT cores, to accelerate the specific calculations needed for this, but aren't really useful for regular rasterization calculations.

Rule of thumb is that general purpose is maximally flexible but lease efficient. Specific optimized designs for specific instructions is faster and more efficient at a hardware level, but can typically be only used for that one type of operation.

HRL said:
These 3090’s are going to need support brackets, aren’t they.

Don’t think the PCI-E slots are going to handle a BFGPU without one.
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That one pictured I think is a 4 slot. One of the benefits of high cards (multi-slot) is that you can add multiple screws on the back panel and those screws all in alignment can stop a lot of the torque a heavy card can have on the PCI-e slot. As long as the PCB is strong.

opethdisciple said:
Don't get people's urgency for these cards. Yes, I have waited for them too, but we have no next gen titles yet.

Offering an extra £200 to bag one instead of waiting a few weeks (if stock dries up) isn't a big deal...

I'm happy to wait until early November to get one just before CyberPunk.
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Various rumours flying around, not just the crypto mining ones, show supply could be a serious problem and that these could sell out day 1 and then not have any more significant availability until basically Q1 2021. That will result in serious price gouging. At this point I plan to camp the Nvidia FE store, but that they'll be gone within seconds of it going live, if the site even stays up.
 
opethdisciple said:
You don't want to wait for the 20GB version?
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Nope, but seems you do :p

Do you seriously think the 20gb version will be £649? Nope will be £749 or more. Why would I want to pay £100 extra for something that I will need in a handful of games from now until the 4080 comes out? £649 is a lot as it is. I can't justify that.
 
PrincessFrosty said:
The point I made a while back was that vRAM isn't free, to just throw a load more onto a card will increase the price, a lot with GDDR6x. I'd be interested to see if the people that were complaining about only 10Gb on the 3080 if they'll put their money where their mouth is and shell out a load more cash for a similar card with more vRAM. I'm betting most wont.
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Will we change our minds if you pluck a figure out of thin air and claim that the +VRAM variants must be +£350 at least?

Funnily enough, no :p

The 3080 Ti might be £999, but it won't just be a VRAM bump.

A 16GB 3070 Ti I wouldn't expect to see north of £600 either.

But what I'd prefer more than anything is for AMD to launch models with a decent VRAM upgrade, so I can give them my money instead.
 
Greebo said:
Prices iof the currency has risen recently which will help that and at triple mining and your quoted 50p per day thats still £45 per month.

But the issue isnt really people buying up stock in the UK for mining, its 1000s getting bought up by farms elsewhere in the world which then leads to not many landing on UK shores for sale. Ethereum prices have soared by 60% recently so I reckon you would make around £2.36 per day atm so £70 per month.

So a 3080 would pay for itself in a year.
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You forgot the electricity bill.
 
robfosters said:
Do you get a converter with those? My PSU only has two PCI-E leads?
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robfosters said:
Surely a Superflower leadex platinum 850W is enough for a 3900X and 3080 combo?
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It's normal 8pin connectors. For your PSU though I suppose you could do still do it, each cable has actually 2 8pin outputs. Not sure I'd personally want to try it, daisy chain PSU cables are never a good idea. 850w is more than enough.

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