NVIDIA Starts Ampere Marketing With #Ultimatecountdown

Raevenlord · Aug 10, 2020

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.

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Legacy-ZA · Aug 10, 2020

Any news on when you will get review samples?

TheLostSwede · Aug 10, 2020

The 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...

agent_x007 · Aug 10, 2020

SDR vs. DDR note : If they do G6X first for Ampere, and then make HBM 2.0 models of the same dies later. That would be interesting

Tomgang · Aug 10, 2020

So now I have to see if it's time to replace my GTX 1080 TI with a RTX 3080. If RTX 3080 TI is priced similar to RTX 2080 TI or even higher, I will have to settle for a RTX 3080 none TI as I am not willing to pay more than around 800 usd for a new gpu.

TheLostSwede said:
The 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...

It not the first time they have done this with memory. GT 1030 came in version with ddr4 memory and one with the much better GDDR memory. Ø

In the past nvidia has properly done this a few times over the past years.

xkm1948 · Aug 10, 2020

GeForce RTX 2190, 2180 Ti and 2180, this is gonna be the 21xx series. Calling it

Wolfkin · Aug 10, 2020

Tomgang said:
It not the first time they have done this with memory. GT 1030 came in version with ddr4 memory and one with the much better GDDR memory. Ø

In the past nvidia has properly done this a few times over the past years.

Actually, that was the very first time they did it.

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.

Fouquin · Aug 10, 2020

Missing a letter there.

Chrispy_ · Aug 10, 2020

Really looking forward to seeing performance/Watt.

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.

Tomgang · Aug 10, 2020

Wolfkin said:
Actually, that was the very first time they did it.

Yeah it seems like it. Althrow there are also 8800 GS. That is a card that dit not come in to good mood by consumers. There where 3 different versions under the same name with different amounts of vram. 256 and 512 mb with the same name also the gpu had some different specs.

dicktracy · Aug 10, 2020

The only PC hardware worth buying this year.

Hotobu · Aug 10, 2020

Add me to team 3080TI or bust. The 1080TI served me well, but with 4K 120FPS being my target I want all the horsepower I can get.

Turmania · Aug 10, 2020

4k 120 fps, probably next gen not this coming gen.

oxrufiioxo · Aug 10, 2020

I'll be grabbing a 2180 ti/3080 ti sometime after the dust settles as well to retire my Titan Xp in my secondary PC.

Turmania said:
4k 120 fps, probably next gen not this coming gen.

I agree the 3080 ti would need to be 100% faster in a lot of games to achieve that although with medium/high settings it will probably be somewhat doable.

moproblems99 · Aug 10, 2020

Awe come on, our thread beat this one. This one should have been merged into ours. :roll:

Hemmingstamp · Aug 10, 2020

Cuda Cores is what I'm after. I won't hold my breath for the prices though. If they are anywhere near the 20 series prices I'll hold off or even pass.

mouacyk · Aug 10, 2020

Tomgang said:
So now I have to see if it's time to replace my GTX 1080 TI with a RTX 3080. If RTX 3080 TI is priced similar to RTX 2080 TI or even higher, I will have to settle for a RTX 3080 none TI as I am not willing to pay more than around 800 usd for a new gpu.

OTOH, I will have to double-down if AI applications are better with it! Gamers are gonna be so ticked off in #21 days when NVidia has nothing new to promote but enhanced AI and charge everyone another premium for it. Now you can upscale your 4K images to 8K at 15fps -- sign me up!

$ReaPeR$ · Aug 10, 2020

"ultimatecountdown" cringe.

ZoneDymo · Aug 10, 2020

not interesting until competition gets around and hte prices are not just what Nvidia wants you to pay (and apperently quite a few of you are baffelingly willing to do).

Sithaer · Aug 10, 2020

3060 or whatever they will call it might interest me if its not completely overpriced, aint paying more than 400$ 'after taxes' for a GPU which is the price range of 5600XT/RTX 2060 'non super' in my country but I would prefer a 8GB card since I plan on keeping it for ~3 years. '2-3 years is normal for me with every card I owned since the 8800 GT era'

Cheeseball · Aug 10, 2020

TheLostSwede said:
The 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.

Compared 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.

Lionheart · Aug 10, 2020

xkm1948 said:
GeForce RTX 2190, 2180 Ti and 2180, this is gonna be the 21xx series. Calling it

Eww hell no.

Cheeseball · Aug 10, 2020

xkm1948 said:
GeForce RTX 2190, 2180 Ti and 2180, this is gonna be the 21xx series. Calling it

Can you imagine this if its true? LOL

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

xkm1948 · Aug 10, 2020

Cheeseball said:
Can you imagine this if its true? LOL

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

No non-RTX version this round. With DLSS2.0 or better, RTX would be on for all this gen.

hardcore_gamer · Aug 10, 2020

Turmania said:
4k 120 fps, probably next gen not this coming gen.

It should be possible with DLSS. Death Stranding can hit 100fps at 4K on a 2080 Ti.

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NVIDIA Starts Ampere Marketing With #Ultimatecountdown

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