We'll be getting RT games a plenty when the new consoles arrive, so the next gen cards better be able to handle it.
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System Requirement
- 1000 Watt Power Supply (Recommended)
- 2 x 8-pin Power Connector.
- PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard.
- Minimum 8GB of system memory. 16GB recommended.
Over the past few days, we've heard chatter about a new 12-pin PCIe power connector for graphics cards being introduced, particularly from Chinese language publication FCPowerUp, including a picture of the connector itself. Igor's Lab also did an in-depth technical breakdown of the connector. TechPowerUp has some new information on this from a well placed industry source. The connector is real, and will be introduced with NVIDIA's next-generation "Ampere" graphics cards. The connector appears to be NVIDIA's brain-child, and not that of any other IP- or trading group, such as the PCI-SIG, Molex or Intel. The connector was designed in response to two market realities - that high-end graphics cards inevitably need two power connectors; and it would be neater for consumers to have a single cable than having to wrestle with two; and that lower-end (<225 W) graphics cards can make do with one 8-pin or 6-pin connector.
Graphics card vendors will include ketchup-and-mustard adapters that convert 2x 8-pin to 1x 12-pin
Maybe reference boards?
so what was the part where the translator basically showed the guy had made everything up?
Gamers Nexus confirmed custom = same old connectors.
I'm meaning manufacturers may have to use the 12 pin connector if their card is reference board based.
Gamers Nexus says that it's OEM-only (for pre-built systems) and consumer cards will have standard 2x 8 pin connectors.
Is that the GPU with an SSD on the card?
Have AMD ever made a "Titan" card, something a little special with something a little special about it?
Ampere A100 benchmarks leaking for Octane Render Bench
Stock Ampere A100 scores 446 points in Octane Bench
Stock RTX2080ti scores 300 points, RTX8000 scores 318 points.
https://twitter.com/JulesUrbach/status/1286448029600374784
Not bad I think, yes its 6900 cores but they're slow cores at 1400mhz - scale the cores down to 5300 for the 3080ti but bump the clocks to 1800mhz and that would put the 3080ti a good 50% faster than the 2080ti too.
hilarious. Goodbye customer base if so.
Yes and need to have this (mindest) domino affect from others too. With people still buying 2080+ at the silly prices, its not going to change. The radeon VII was another price point too far so not really much choice but if you own something similar in performance to a vega/1080, the likes of a 5700XT or 2070S is not a good enough leap. We are pretty much at August now so hopefully see what in store so we can eyeball where the next upgrade path will be.
But this would be a huge catch up job by AMD.
Can they really match Nvidia this time round?
It would be like Arsenal winning the league next year if AMD manage it!