Since the beginning of this month Nvidia has been giving out the technical paper work about the upcoming Ampere GPU's, partners will be receiving the first reference boards and silicon by the end of this month.
Ampere should please just about everybody, some of the big points that we had communicated to us:
-Significant raster performance increases (higher than Turing gains)
-Massive RT performance increases
-Expanded Vram capacity on the full range of SKU's.
-Dialed down TDP's on many cards in the range (high end remains unchanged at 250w)
-Increased core clocks (healthy 100-200mhz bump over Turing)
That ends the good news.
Bad/neutral news:
-Prices, unchanged on the most popular cards, slight decreases on the unpopular ones. (x80ti and x80's will see a price drop, while x70's and beneath will remain UNCHANGED)
-Overclocking, core clocks stock will be higher than ever, 100-200mhz higher depending on SKU, however this does not mean the 2100-2200mhz ambient cooling upper limit of frequency will be broken when overclocking, which brings me to the next point.
-Voltage limits decreased. We went from 1.2v of Maxwell and previous generation to 1.093v in Pascal (maintained in Turing), we will now see a decrease to sub 1v in Ampere, which will severely limit overclocking frequency, but has a positive impact on power consumption's.
Be aware that no matter how valid this information is today it is subject to change between now and release depending on what Nvidia decide to do, many points are highly sensitive to market forces (Prices, TDP's and vram capacity especially).