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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has kept the geeks spellbound with the mysterious theme of his speech on May 14, when he will deliver the opening speech for the GTC event. Now we know from this advance that it is the “world’s largest graphics card.”
Huang originally planned to deliver the speech on March 23 at the GTC event in San Jose, California. But the coronavirus pandemic put that speech on hold and Nvidia moved the conference online as GTC Digital. And now Huang will catch up and hit the key note.
In this preview video, Huang says he’s been cooking something for a while in his kitchen. Then he takes out a giant board with multiple graphics processing units (GPUs).
Above: Nvidia’s Jensen Huang has the world’s largest graphics card.
Image credit: Nvidia
Nvidia is not commenting on the ad that accompanies this video. But as you can see from the growl Huang makes when he takes it out of the oven, it’s quite a heavy thing.
Enthusiastic websites have speculated that the new graphics cards will feature a new GPU architecture, called Ampere. These GPUs are expected to be part of the GeForce RTX 3080 and GeForce RTX 3070 cards to come later in the year, and they are expected to be 75% faster than current-generation GPUs based on the Turing architecture. One of the benefits is that they will be built in a 7-nanometer manufacturing process at Nvidia’s TSMC factory partner. These Ampere-based GPUs will have thousands of cores dedicated to non-graphical tasks (CUDA cores), AI work (tensor cores), and real-time ray tracing (RT cores).
The speech will air on YouTube on May 14 at 6 a.m. Pacific time. Nvidia has said Huang will highlight the company’s latest innovations in artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, data science, autonomous machines, healthcare, and graphics during the taped keynote.
