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NVIDIA ‘Ampere’ 8nm Graphics Cards

Colonel_Klinck said:
I bought mine for £1k. Yeah it wasn't cheap but my 1080ti was £800. I sold that for £480-ish so it wasn't that expensive an upgrade. It did mean I could turn everything up to max in games where I couldn't with the 1080ti and keep up to my monitors 100fps. I don't regret a penny of the purchase.
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The price itself wasn't the problem for me.We were previously getting our performance increases *at the same price points* of previous generations. That's what progress has usually meant before the 20xx series. I don't have a problem with them making a new price point if they make some sort of a massive leap forward in performance, but 30%? That's not the kind of performance that justifies a new price point.

Like I said, a 30% increase in performance at a given price point is a decent generational improvement, but they failed to deliver that with this generation.

I'm a free market guy though. We all get to "vote" with our wallets. If Nvidia got enough "votes" for this price/performance to make money, then they were "correct" and should just keep doing what the're doing. However, I'm hoping they didn't quite sell as well as they had hoped and thus try offering better value to get more "votes" with the next generation.
 
XeNoNF50 said:
With a 1080ti I'm still in no rush luckily. Suspect coronavirus will slow everything down worldwide, not just graphics card releases.
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yup can see a lot of electronics being later this year and prices will no doubt climb for what little stock there actually is. oh well new gpu next year maybe i guess. on a 1070 now so not in that much of a rush.
 
XeNoNF50 said:
With a 1080ti I'm still in no rush luckily. Suspect coronavirus will slow everything down worldwide, not just graphics card releases.
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it already has for all electronics even monitor global production is down 30% because South Korea has closed factories as well

Ram and nand was predicted to go up this year under normal supply and now we're looking at major supply issues
 
scubes said:
Looks like gdc has been cancelled with the Corona virus. So no 3080 showing. ☹️☹️
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They will probably do an online event/livestream as a replacement, so if they were going to show the 3000 series they still can. However, it may be the case that they change their plans given the wider impact of the cronavirus on supply chains. This will also be influenced by what they think AMD will be doing around the announcement of Big Navi - I imagine Nvidia still want to ensure that they announce the 3000 series before Big Navi so that any AMD claims about it being X% faster than the 2000 series become redundant.
 
Well,considering both AMD and Nvidia have a lot of papers on multi-die GPUs,and Nvidia even showed off an experimental 36 die GPU its plausible:
https://www.pcgamesn.com/nvidia/nvidia-rc-18-ai-deep-learning-accelerator-mcm-multi-gpu
https://research.nvidia.com/sites/default/files/publications/ISCA_2017_MCMGPU.pdf

Nvidia has lots of experience with ARM chips,including custom cores with Tegra. The ARM chip is probably used to synchronise the two GPUs as some sort of system controller.

Just look at Ryzen,there are a lot of advantages for using this approach. AMD recently said it would cost them 2.2X more to make a monolithic 16 core Zen2 CPU,when compared to the approach they eventually used.

Looking at the amounts of VRAM for the leaked GPUs,I would imagine these are for data centre,which has far less problems with multiple GPUs. Don't believe me - lots of supercomputers have 100s or 1000s of dGPUs in them.
 
My guess is Nvidia will take the opportunity to use Covid-19 as an excuse to price the new cards silly again. I mean supply and demand after all. They can then lower prices again later in Q4 just before consoles come out.
 
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