Monday, August 10th 2020
NVIDIA Starts Ampere Marketing With #Ultimatecountdown
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
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.
37 Comments on NVIDIA Starts Ampere Marketing With #Ultimatecountdown
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...
In the past nvidia has properly done this a few times over the past years.
Kidding aside, I hope we will get some nice cards at a resonably price this time, the 2000 series was a little high for the performance.
Missing a letter there.
Nvidia can take the performance crown again this generation for all I care, but if they really do need 400W to do it then that's a big fat "no thanks" from me.
Maybe it's this current heatwave but outside of Jan/Feb I really don't want a half-kilowatt space heater blasting air into a room that's already too hot for my liking. I had to crank my card down to 70% power limit this weekend just to try and take the edge off ambient room temps of 32C, which is about 5C more than I can really handle. I'm a high-metabolism person who wears shorts in the snow, really not keen on sweating it out in the same room as a space-heater.
But yeah obviously the DDR version would be better.
They went from GTX 10-series to 20-series then just decided to do 21-series for sh**s and giggles
And then the non-RTX versions would be the 17-series hahahahahahaha