Monday, June 22nd 2020
NVIDIA GeForce "Ampere" Hits 3DMark Time Spy Charts, 30% Faster than RTX 2080 Ti
An unknown NVIDIA GeForce "Ampere" GPU model surfaced on 3DMark Time Spy online database. We don't know if this is the RTX 3080 (RTX 2080 successor), or the top-tier RTX 3090 (RTX 2080 Ti successor). Rumored specs of the two are covered in our older article. The 3DMark Time Spy score unearthed by _rogame (Hardware Leaks) is 18257 points, which is close to 31 percent faster than the RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition, 22 percent faster than the TITAN RTX, and just a tiny bit slower than KINGPIN's record-setting EVGA RTX 2080 Ti XC. Futuremark SystemInfo reads the GPU clock speeds of the "Ampere" card as 1935 MHz, and its memory clock at "6000 MHz." Normally, SystemInfo reads the memory actual clock (i.e. 1750 MHz for 14 Gbps GDDR6 effective). Perhaps SystemInfo isn't yet optimized for reading memory clocks on "Ampere."
Source:
HardwareLeaks
67 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce "Ampere" Hits 3DMark Time Spy Charts, 30% Faster than RTX 2080 Ti
Game developers target certain resolution, when developing games, with some GPUs taken as baseline.
So there is some GPU taken as "base", some resolution taken as "base" and some framerate taken as "acceptable".
This happens with nearly all games, because higher framerate is a much harder sell than better graphics.
Now, it comes down to what those base GPU, resolution and framerate are.
I would bet on 5700/2070 to be the "base" Cards and, at best, 1440p to be the target resolution.
Now, 4k is 3840x2160, 1440p is 2650x1440 => 4k has 2.17 times more pixels.
Yet the fastest car on the market, 2080Ti, is only 1.3-1.5 times faster than the cards mentioned above.
Conclusion: 4k on xxxxTi is possible with either older games, that were targeting much more modest hardware, or we will need to wait until game developers will start targeting 4k as a base, to even dream of "high fps 4k" on even the obnoxiously priced GPUs.
so take the 2080 ti perf and add 30% and then tell me that the ampere card cant do 4k high refresh.
Which part about "4k is 2.2 times more pixels than 1440p, but 2080Ti is only 1.3-1.5 times faster than 5700/2070" did you not understand?
Wish they'd just release it
Holding off 20 series has been pretty tough.
Performance scaling in games highly depends on the game engine. For starters, the fragment/pixel shaders usually accounts for ~70-80% of the GPU workload, and scales pretty much linearly with pixel count. Vertex shaders, tessellation etc. run however independently of resolution. But then there is the LoD algorithm in the game, which may choose to use different assets at different resolutions with the "same" detail level, when games does this, you'll typically see higher resolutions consume a lot more VRAM and lower than linear performance scaling.
Add 30% and in a fair percentage, they're not going to hit 144Hz.
Still these are rumours, no need to care at this point, hopefully they're sand bagging anyway.
4k is already far more use able then a lot of people believe tbf, I have gamed at 4k 70% of the game's I try, no chance of high FPS for me though obviously.
A 2080ti is already quite capable ,30% would get all game's to run at 4k, still wouldn't mind more than 30% though, fingers crossed.
One or both are true.