Tuesday, August 25th 2020
NVIDIA Ampere GA102-300-A1 GPU Die Pictured
Here's the first picture of an NVIDIA "Ampere" GA102 GPU die. This is the largest client-segment implementation of the "Ampere" architecture by NVIDIA, targeting the gaming (GeForce) and professional-visualization (Quadro) market segments. The "Ampere" architecture itself debuted earlier this year with the A100 Tensor Core scalar processor that's winning hearts and minds in the HPC community faster than ice cream on a dog day afternoon. There's no indication of die-size, but considering how tiny the 10.3 billion-transistor AMD "Navi 10" die is, the GA102 could come with a massive transistor count if its die is as big as that of the TU102. The GPU in the picture is also a qualification sample, and was probably pictured off a prototype graphics card. Powering the GeForce RTX 3090, the GA102-300 is expected to feature a CUDA core count of 5,248. According to VideoCardz, there's a higher trim of this silicon, the GA102-400, which could make it to NVIDIA's next halo product under the TITAN brand.
Sources:
ChipHell Forums, VideoCardz, WCCFTech
37 Comments on NVIDIA Ampere GA102-300-A1 GPU Die Pictured
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Meanwhile:
- We continue to have outright broken drivers (for the RX 5000 series) and relatively high fault-rate - I had more issues with with my RX 5600 XT for the five months I had it than I've had with NVIDIA for more than 22 years that I've used NVIDIA's products.
- We continue to have outright broken BIOS releases (read the comments in r/AMD about new BIOS releases for X570/B550 chipsets - I can give the links if you're interested) - random reboots, instability at advertised XMP clocks, etc. - also enjoy this tidbit from an ASUS representative, no, actually read the whole announcement. Sends shivers down my spine.
- We continue to "enjoy" lies about Intel/NVIDIA performance
- We continue to "enjoy" lies about AMD products power efficiency - when in fact NVIDIA on an inferior node is better (the GTX 16XX series)
- AMD has the guts to lie about their CPUs TDP
Let's flood the thread with five dozen more messages and silly pictures how NVIDIA is ripping everyone off. Or this citation taken out of the context, "You save by buying more" which is actually correct if you knew the circumstances. Consider a computational center: when you buy more current-gen NVIDIA GPUs/computational accelerators you ... save on your electricity bills, space (which surprise also costs money), maintenance (less equipment is easier to maintain) and win on performance.It's appalling what has happened to websites like TPU, AnandTech and others. We used to have an intelligent debate, a fair comparison based on merits of respective products.
Nowadays it has all turned to utter crap. AMD fanboys willing to express their inanities and lies everywhere. People voting sane comparisons off (see the recent hardware unboxed poll about which CPU to use in upcoming GPU comparisons - the slower Ryzen 9 3950X has won over the Intel Core i9 10900K which is faster in absolute most games).
WTF is going on? Why don't moderators of the respective websites intervene? A bystander may get the impression that AMD is top of the world, makes best in class, unrivaled products with impeccable quality.
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I've always bought what made sense at the time. Am i completely impartial? Ofcorse not. Everyone has some bias to a degree. I bought Sandy Bridge at the time when AMD CPU's sucked. I bought Pascal when AMD was not competing at that level (sorry but Vega64 was not good enough). Im not buying a product simply because im a fanboy of the company. If a company makes a good product and i need an upgrade i will buy it. Fermi was not a good product. AMD FX was very bad. Turing was dissapointing. Im hoping Samsungs process is good but seeing 3x8pin and massive coolers attached (relative to previous FE models not 3rd party ones) it does not instill confidence.
Because normal sane person wont engage in crazed fan debates. Chill man, let the fanboys burn up themselves
Which statement has triggered them?
on topic, I wonder how much price they asked for this newborn Titan.