Monday, August 10th 2020

NVIDIA Starts Ampere Marketing With #Ultimatecountdown

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NVIDIA today shared the first real teaser in what seems to be the start of the Ampere marketing push. A post via Twitter shared an image showing an explosion of cosmic proportions, with a "#theultimatecountdown" tag alongside the "21 days. 21 years" tagline. This is a likely throwback to August 31st 1999, when NVIDIA launched its first GeForce branded graphics card - the GeForce 256 - setting it on its journey to become today's most successful dedicated graphics card maker.

Following the teasers' logic, we should expect some very interesting announcements from NVIDIA come August 31st, 2020 - and with Ampere around the corner, it's highly unlikely we'll be hearing about anything other than that.
Source: NVIDIA @ Twitter

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37 Comments on NVIDIA Starts Ampere Marketing With #Ultimatecountdown

#26
ppn
Forget about this gen. It's Fermi GTX 480 all over again. GTX780 power hog again. 8nm is a 10nm refresh obsolete thing. We deserve 5nm EUV for the hard earned money.
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#27
ViperXTR
Hoping i can get an RTX 3070/3060Super/Ti with double of the performance of my 1070
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#28
Darmok N Jalad
Gives you plenty of time to plan and recover from surgery after your kidney sale. :)
TheLostSwedeThe GeForce 256 SDR wasn't all that great, the DDR version on the other hand was the fastest card you could get when it launched.
Back in the days when there was still competition in the graphics card market. How I wish there would be a return of PowerVR in the desktop market space...
Christ I'm old...
My old Kyro 2 says hi. :)
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#29
timta2
ppnForget about this gen. It's Fermi GTX 480 all over again. GTX780 power hog again. 8nm is a 10nm refresh obsolete thing. We deserve 5nm EUV for the hard earned money.
I loved my GTX 480 on my custom loop, while ignoring all of the obnoxious haters for several years. I'd love to see good times like that again.
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#31
TheLostSwede
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CheeseballCompared with the Riva TNT2 Ultra (Its predecessor), it was pretty fast if I remember correctly (this was 20 years ago LOL). Quake 3 Arena and UT ran very well.

But yeah obviously the DDR version would be better.
Would be? It was. I remember testing these cards when they launched, as I worked at PCW in the UK at the time.
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#32
Spartoz
Geforce 256, 21 August 1999:
256 x 21 = 5376
5376 = max ammount of cuda cores in GA102 (expected)
5+3+7+6= 21
Illuminati confirmed
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#33
TheLostSwede
News Editor
Darmok N JaladMy old Kyro 2 says hi. :)
Remember when the then Videologic PR guy came in with that card for testing. It was a good card for the money, but the drivers were buggy as...
He's now the head of marketing and PR at Imagination Technologies.
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#35
ARF
hardcore_gamerIt should be possible with DLSS. Death Stranding can hit 100fps at 4K on a 2080 Ti.

That's not 4K, that is upscaled 1080p.
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#37
AusWolf
We've been waiting for Ampere for so long only to find out that we'll have to wait 21 more years.
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