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NVIDIA ‘Ampere’ 8nm Graphics Cards

Takes me back to when everyone thought they'd need a new PSU for Vega as well, as 1000w was the recommended :p


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.

:eek: :D
 
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Just remember guys about that 12 Pin rubbish, it was also said it was only the Flounders that had it, the custom cards would be like normal, so if everyones only buying a Flounders, and not a custom, then yep, you'll need a new PSU/12 Pin cable. :p
 
Oh dear, its coming, and to custom cards too, and its a new pin layout, so 2x 6 pins won't work, its a new 2x 6 pin to 12 pin adapter cable for all :/

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.

https://www.techpowerup.com/269957/...r-its-real-and-coming-with-nvidia-ampere-gpus

A massive fail.
 
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Strange, im sure i read on there it was going to be on the custom cards too, but its gone now :p

EDIT: Yeah, sounds like it.

Graphics card vendors will include ketchup-and-mustard adapters that convert 2x 8-pin to 1x 12-pin

If it was just the FE, that wouldn't be saying graphics card vendors would it, as only Nvidia do the FE, don't they ?
 
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Maybe reference boards?

Yeah the FEs are Nvidias reference cards.

so what was the part where the translator basically showed the guy had made everything up?

Yeah there was a translation, with it saying at the bottom, none of this is true, i made it all up, or something like that, but we don't know if that was just added on to it, as Techpowerup are saying, a well placed industry source, has said its real.

Guess we'll just have to wait and see :p
 
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.


https://wccftech.com/amd-radeon-ins...nchmarks-leak-faster-than-nvidia-ampere-a100/

:p
 
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.

Don't know about that, i went form a LC Vega 64 to a 2070 Super, and the performance increase is massive.
 
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