Monday, February 26th 2018
NVIDIA to Unveil "Ampere" Based GeForce Product Next Month
NVIDIA prepares to make its annual tech expo, the 2018 Graphics Technology Conference (GTC) action-packed. The company already surprised us with its next-generation "Volta" architecture based TITAN V graphics card priced at 3 grand; and is working to cash in on the crypto-currency wave and ease pressure on consumer graphics card inventories by designing highly optimized mining accelerators under the new Turing brand. There's now talk that NVIDIA could pole-vault launch of the "Volta" architecture for the consumer-space; by unveiling a GeForce graphics card based on its succeeding architecture, "Ampere."
The oldest reports of NVIDIA unveiling "Ampere" date back to November 2017. At the time it was expected that NVIDIA will only share some PR blurbs on some of the key features it brings to the table, or at best, unveil a specialized (non-gaming) silicon, such as a Drive or machine-learning chip. An Expreview report points at the possibility of a GeForce product, one that you can buy in your friendly neighborhood PC store and play games with. The "Ampere" based GPU will still be based on the 12 nanometer silicon fabrication process at TSMC, and is unlikely to be a big halo chip with exotic HBM stacks. Why NVIDIA chose to leapfrog is uncertain. GTC gets underway late-March.
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The oldest reports of NVIDIA unveiling "Ampere" date back to November 2017. At the time it was expected that NVIDIA will only share some PR blurbs on some of the key features it brings to the table, or at best, unveil a specialized (non-gaming) silicon, such as a Drive or machine-learning chip. An Expreview report points at the possibility of a GeForce product, one that you can buy in your friendly neighborhood PC store and play games with. The "Ampere" based GPU will still be based on the 12 nanometer silicon fabrication process at TSMC, and is unlikely to be a big halo chip with exotic HBM stacks. Why NVIDIA chose to leapfrog is uncertain. GTC gets underway late-March.
78 Comments on NVIDIA to Unveil "Ampere" Based GeForce Product Next Month
Expect the usual assortment of people trying to derive gaming numbers while other people point out that HPC != gaming. Yawn.
Personally, I'm not buying a new GPU till prices come back down to reasonable levels, IE what they were in 2017.
So i'm really confused about this. The tesla v100 was available for purchase really really late, (and it's even worse for the titan V). That would be the first time that the consumer side of thing skipped a generation. It would be shocking if ampere was more than a tweaked volta on the same 12nm.
Though , I am still doubtful they will announce anything at all at GTC , maybe another TItan at best.
Worst case scenario the new XX60 will cost around +50$ compared to 1060 MSRP and honestly if Ampere (or whatever the next gen is called ) follows the trend created by Pascal ( 1060 = 980 ) well im ok paying 350-400 bucks for 1080 perf or more knowing 1080's here in France cost as much as 800+ euro .
released/announced in the last years GDC...Who knows, maybe time and Nvidia don't wait for the competition to show up.
And who is to say Nvidia wont speculate this and price their cards absurdly high from the get go and they'll just lower the prices at some point if mining becomes irrelevant.
But like I said, this announcement will be about their top Tesla card, so it will still tell us little about a future gaming card. So I'll just chill for a while longer.
Nvidia claims hard that they doing everything to get GeForce cards on gamers hands where they belong to be . So why would they go and do such a stupid thing ? To loose credibility ? You underestimate big time their marketing team . Nvidia has a simple task . Price correctly next gen and profit a new record breaking year interms of market share and income !A dedicated mining platform will hepl to eliminate such an issue ....... and looks like they're going for it .
There is shortage in supplies (RAM) and massive demand for GPUs on the market. They are not dumb and will most certainly raise the MSRP, and MSRP is only the tip of the iceberg. I would be surprised if next gen GPUs won't cost at least as much as Pascal does now ($100+ over MSRP) when they hit the market. Unless ... they are artificially crippled at mining ...
@kruk Good point. I mean, Nvidia doesn't have that policy that AMD adopted where they are forbiden from selling at more than 7% the manufacturing costs :rolleyes:
Sometimes I wish there was a fanboy tag under someone's name so that I know when to not waste my time trying to discuss something.
My bad , it should have been obvious to me from the very beginning but hey.
Nvidia is in business to make money like ANY company. It doesn’t matter to them who buys their products. The commitment to gamers news conference? PR Stunt.