NVIDIA Could Tease Its Next-Gen Ampere GPU on 7nm at GTC 19

LoadsaMoney · 18 Mar 2019 at 19:03

9pm our time tonight (i think), his keynote.

Randomface74 · 18 Mar 2019 at 19:08

Live stream?

AthlonXP1800 · 18 Mar 2019 at 19:17

billysielu said:
Live stream?

https://www.ustream.tv/gpu-technology-conference

Kaapstad · 18 Mar 2019 at 20:17

billysielu said:
Lie stream?

Fixed that for you.

JediFragger · 18 Mar 2019 at 20:19

Kaapstad said:
Fixed that for you.

It just works

ANDREW GREEN · 18 Mar 2019 at 20:28

Won't 20 series have to be all sold out for this to be worthwhile for Nvidia?

Dalandius · 18 Mar 2019 at 20:31

People thinking that a shrink to 7nm is going to improve performance are in for a disappointment.

Jokester · 18 Mar 2019 at 20:34

Dalandius said:
People thinking that a shrink to 7nm is going to improve performance are in for a disappointment.

Yup, I can see it more that it'll be 2080ti performance for £600 rather than £1000. I doubt they'll do a massive core to give substantial performance boost of the ti, at least not until 18-24months down the line. No doubt there'll be a Titan versus though for £2k+ though.

WantoN · 18 Mar 2019 at 21:17

Thanks for sharing, I always enjoy some tech news.

I’m not hopefull Nvidia will release a product for the people though. They’ll probably proclaim 15 Gigarays per Second, and act like it’s the second coming of Christ, or just use the cost savings to make the same margins, on the same performance, for less money.

Until we have additional serious players in the upper end of this sector, it’ll just be more of the same. We can only hope they want to leave Intel in the dust before they have a chance to get a foothold; then at least we’ll get one more competitive high end card before more of the same.

Randomface74 · 18 Mar 2019 at 21:23

RTX ON
lel

Apone70 · 18 Mar 2019 at 21:23

fingers crossed it will be a huge step up in performance but not in price

JediFragger · 18 Mar 2019 at 21:27

New cards for the Summer? Turing sales *that* bad??? :eek:

Randomface74 · 18 Mar 2019 at 21:31

This is sounding almost as disappointing as the "don't you guys have phones?" presentation.

Dicehunter · 18 Mar 2019 at 21:31

After the urine extraction that was the launch price of the 2080 Ti over the 1080 Ti Nvidia can go whistle Dixie.

Poneros · 18 Mar 2019 at 21:40

That Quake RTX'ed looks straight D O P E! Jensen working hard to make me regret my Vega purchase.

Dirk Diggler · 18 Mar 2019 at 21:43

Kaapstad said:
Fixed that for you.

Brilliant.

Poneros · 18 Mar 2019 at 21:47

Apparently RTX Titans are now down to $1999.

Apone70 · 18 Mar 2019 at 21:49

Poneros said:
Apparently RTX Titans are now down to $1999.

proper bargain lol

Poneros · 18 Mar 2019 at 21:54

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/geforce-gtx-ray-tracing-coming-soon/

In the time since, our software and developer teams have kept working, allowing us to optimize our ray tracing technology, make new software advancements, and help developers further accelerate ray tracing performance in games. Because of this work, we have dramatically sped up ray tracing performance for GeForce RTX GPUs, and can now enable DirectX Raytracing ( DXR ) on GeForce GTX 1060 6GB and higher graphics cards via a Game Ready Driver update, expected in April.

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Dirk Diggler · 18 Mar 2019 at 21:55

What a cringe; he builds it up to deafening silence and then prompts the audience with a "whadda you guys think?"

... A ripple of applause ...

"Yeah!"