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NVIDIA ‘Ampere’ 8nm Graphics Cards

Quartz said:
The thing to do will be to abstract it in the driver so that software developers don't need to know.
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Be great if they could come up with a way to drop add-in chips to a premium board instead of relying on PCIe. Even the old dual cards used a PCIe bridge between the chips. Abstraction wouldn't be perfect even then though, you would have to be aware of which workloads are sensitive to travel between fabrics etc.
 
Vertigo1 said:
This just makes me more curious about what exactly the "reference" design is. Are they talking about blocks for the weird PCB with the chevron cut-out at the end? If so then I can't see any third parties using that, in which case the "reference" won't be a very common PCB.
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I'd say it's for the FE reference cards sold by Nvidia and for any cards that follow the reference design. Various blocks for AIB custom cards to follow?
 
Vertigo1 said:
This just makes me more curious about what exactly the "reference" design is. Are they talking about blocks for the weird PCB with the chevron cut-out at the end? If so then I can't see any third parties using that, in which case the "reference" won't be a very common PCB.
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yeah I was wondering that too, also if you can sell the Founders Edition cooler on ;)
 
five8five said:
I'd say it's for the FE reference cards sold by Nvidia and for any cards that follow the reference design. Various blocks for AIB custom cards to follow?
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Yes but, if the rumours are correct and the FE PCB is this weird shaped thing with the 12-pin power connector, virtually no AIB cards are going to use it as it's too expensive to produce.

In that case, what's the "standard" PCB that manufacturers will make blocks for? If hardly anyone has a Founders Edition card and all the AIBs are using their own designs because they're cheaper to manufacture then there's no overriding standard PCB.
 
They wont have decided any prices yet. That much is certain. What is also certain is there will be teams of people from Nvidia scouring the forums, websites, social media, getting a gague for what prices might be tolerated.

And be reading this forum they will be thinking they should price it £1500-£2000 because thats what people have decided it will be!

So calm down people!
 
beany_bot said:
They wont have decided any prices yet. That much is certain. What is also certain is there will be teams of people from Nvidia scouring the forums, websites, social media, getting a gague for what prices might be tolerated.

And be reading this forum they will be thinking they should price it £1500-£2000 because thats what people have decided it will be!

So calm down people!
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Well is $1400 is true then that will be £1250 in the UK for the founders and then the AIB cards will be £1200 (clown card) to £1500 (asus, HOF,EVGA FTW etc)
 
The 3080Ti will be coming id have thought, as from the rumoured pricing, the price gap is too big between the 3080 and 3090, its around $600, where as from the 3060, up to the 3080, its only about $200, so can bet your bottom dollar, another card will be slipped into that $600 gap.
 
beany_bot said:
They wont have decided any prices yet. That much is certain. What is also certain is there will be teams of people from Nvidia scouring the forums, websites, social media, getting a gague for what prices might be tolerated.

And be reading this forum they will be thinking they should price it £1500-£2000 because thats what people have decided it will be!

So calm down people!
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Well if they paid any attention to that they'd price the 3090 at $100 ;).

More likely that they use fully absorbed costs then add a markup and forecast volumes based on expected sales vs. desired markup and aim at the profit maximisation price point.

I don't doubt that market research plays a part, but I don't think forum opinions are anything like as large a part as you portray.
 
Greebo said:
Well is $1400 is true then that will be £1250 in the UK for the founders and then the AIB cards will be £1200 (clown card) to £1500 (asus, HOF,EVGA FTW etc)
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Forgive my ignorance mate I never actually knew what the difference between Founders cards and other cards, I'm sure I read somewhere the founder cards are slightly higher clocked? Maybe I'm mistaken as I need to decide if I'm going to go for one or wait.
Thanks
 
LoadsaMoney said:
The 3080Ti will be coming id have thought, as from the rumoured pricing, the price gap is too big between the 3080 and 3090, its around $600, where as from the 3060, up to the 3080, its only about $200, so can bet your bottom dollar, another card will be slipped into that $600 gap.
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What's the gap between the 2080ti and the Titan RTX?
 
If the "leaked" photos of the 3090 is anything to go by, I'm having serious doubts I can comfortably fit that thing in my case without removing the entire drive rack...and that's just to accommodate the length. The height of the card looks crazy too, especially if the power connector is located on the top.
 
Greebo said:
Well is $1400 is true then that will be £1250 in the UK for the founders and then the AIB cards will be £1200 (clown card) to £1500 (asus, HOF,EVGA FTW etc)
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Ahh the good old clown card! that was from Pascal days no?
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