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NVIDIA ‘Ampere’ 8nm Graphics Cards

Sargatanas2511 said:
It being booked out is unfortunate but I doubt Nvidia had no chance to book TSMC wafers. Samsung 8nm is inferior in every way except cost.
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We know that. But what does that got to do with your original statement?

It's kind of like saying TSMC 7nm is not fit for purpose and that it affirms that AMD messed up by not going 5nm. Surely they could have booked some instead Apple? 7nm is not fit for purpose :p

As we understand it Nvidia took a gamble and it did not turn out as well as they would have wanted. Nothing to do with not being fit for purpose.
 
TNA said:
We know that. But what does that got to do with your original statement?

It's kind of like saying TSMC 7nm is not fit for purpose and that it affirms that AMD messed up by not going 5nm. Surely they could have booked some instead Apple? 7nm is not fit for purpose :p

As we understand it Nvidia took a gamble and it did not turn out as well as they would have wanted. Nothing to do with not being fit for purpose.
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Not at all, Nvidia have pushed Ampere right to the edge and probably got less out of it than they wanted by going for an inferior process. 5nm wasn't available at the time RDNA2 was being planned.

Both the 3080 and the 3090 needed huge expensive coolers made just for them due to being on the process too. I do accept that the FE coolers are very good though.
 
Theophany said:
TSMC 7nm production is booked out, Samsung 8nm was the only other option for this launch window.
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Node decisions would have been made long ago.

People seem to have forgotten Jensen's comments about their 7nm consumer GPUs at GTC 2019 and/or assumed he was talking about what would become the 3080/90 - he wasn't.
 
Sargatanas2511 said:
Not at all, Nvidia have pushed Ampere right to the edge and probably got less out of it than they wanted by going for an inferior process. 5nm wasn't available at the time RDNA2 was being planned.

Both the 3080 and the 3090 needed huge expensive coolers made just for them due to being on the process too.
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I used that to give you an example. The point is your original statement is wrong. There are other reasons why they would have went 8nm.

Why would it affirm it?
 
Theophany said:
TSMC 7nm production is booked out, Samsung 8nm was the only other option for this launch window.
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Looks like 7nm is available.

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https://www.techpowerup.com/273302/nvidia-reportedly-moving-ampere-to-7-nm-tsmc-in-2021
 
TNA said:
As I understand it Nvidia released early to get ahead of AMD and launched with very little stock. Even after a month they are no way near fulfilling pre-orders from launch day. Lol.

So you decided not to upgrade the scubes? Will you be settling for the 2080Ti which will soon be like the 5th or 6th best graphics card? :p;)

For those wondering why I said that, scubes once said he only wanted the best or something along those lines. So I like to tease him about it now and then :D
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A mate very happy with my 2080ti mucka not enough FPS to drive me a a new card and with all the crap wait for new re batches of bag about you mate did you jump for one
 
scubes said:
A mate very happy with my 2080ti mucka not enough FPS to drive me a a new card and with all the crap wait for new re batches of bag about you mate did you jump for one
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Yea. Got the ASUS 3080 TUF. But won't arrive for another month at least it seems and I managed to get my order in within 90 minutes of launch. Just hope it arrives in November as I will be on Cyberpunk 2077 :)
 
TNA said:
Yea. Got the ASUS 3080 TUF. But won't arrive for another month at least it seems and I managed to get my order in within 90 minutes of launch. Just hope it arrives in November as I will be on Cyberpunk 2077 :)
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The wait is a killer mate I went though the same with my 2080ti .at least you got one.
 
TNA said:
The best part of Ampere for me is better than 2080Ti performance for less than half you paid :p
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Or reworded to: The best part of Ampere is its costing the same as what it should have done, but Im really excited as it feels like its a bargain.. :p
 
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