NVIDIA found itself in a place of problems earlier this year, when reports surfaced that NVIDIA wanted to “jump” AMD to “prevent” from getting bigger.
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What happened? NVIDIA reported “underestimated the impact of AMD embracing TSMC, and made some mistakes in its own plans to migrate to advanced nodes. Moving on to Samsung and venturing into its TSMC strategy, only to return to TSMC later, NVIDIA was unable to secure enough 7nm capacity, resulting in AMD grabbing the spotlight, tarnishing NVIDIA’s market value and its own market share for Increase GPUs“.
Well, that may be the case this year – where AMD’s next-gen RDNA 2-based ‘Great Navi‘Graphics card may be the best AmFere-based GeForce RTX 30 Series graphics card (more about that here). At least, for this year – but do not underestimate NVIDIA and its unrelenting thirst for the best.
According to Tom over at Moore’s Law is Dead, his insiders say that NVIDIA “not worried about AMD beating their top cardsWhat they are worried about is that RDNA 2 could beat the GeForce RTX 3080 – which will be held back because NVIDIA is forced to make it on Samsung 8nm.
But then, when NVIDIA is back to holding hands with TSMC and releasing a high-end Ampere card at 7nm, it would absolutely have to destroy the RTX 3080 and Big Navi. Tom says we should expect:
- GeForce RTX 3080 on Samsung 8nm: 15-25% faster and RTX 2080 Ti
- GeForce RTX 3090 on TSMC 7nm: 45-60% faster and RTX 2080 Ti
- NVIDIA and TSMC issues over 7nm: NVIDIA shifted some of its weight to Samsung in 2019, but AMD soon began to see gains with its effencicy on 7nm TSMC and went back to Ampere. But AMD had secured the gigantic chunk of 7nm TSMC fab time with its various chips. This forced NVIDIA to split between Samsung (RTX 3080 and others) and then TSMC (higher-end RTX 3090, etc.).
- AMD beats all that 7nm up: AMD is gobbling up all that 7nm production at TSMC, between their Ryzen, Threadripper and EPYC Processors – then their Radeon RX series cards (both current and RDNA 2-based next gen cards) like the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X chips are all on display at 7nm at TSMC.
- GeForce RTX 3080 = 8nm with Samsung: This was not intended to happen, but it is – and NVIDIA has no choice but to take action. NVIDIA will use Samsung’s new 8nm node for at least 3 of its Ampere GPUs (you can do that read more about it here), but they will not have the power to completely reverse Big Navi.
- GeForce RTX 3090 = 7nm with TSMC: The GeForce RTX 3090 higher end will, however – but it will launch in Q1 2021. This card is what is referred to in NVIDIA as the Trump card.
- The Trump card from NVIDIA: GeForce RTX 3090 will be made at 7nm with TSMC, and this should be pretty much the monster indeed with the rumor being 45-60% faster than the RTX 2080 Ti. This will be the card that NVIDIA will hit very, very early 2021.
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- Traversal coprocessor: We’ve had more leaks on NVIDIA’s next-gen GeForce RTX 3000 series than any other graphics card before, with an interesting “traversal coprocessor” on the new GeForce RTX 3080 and GeForce RTX 3090 graphics cards. you can read more about it here.
- NVCache: Ampere is meant to have what’s called NVCache, which would be NVIDIA’s own form of AMD’s HBCC (High Bandwidth Cache Controller, more about that here). NVCache would use your system RAM and SSD to optimize super-speed loading of gaming consoles as well as VRAM usage. you can read more about NVCache here.
- Tensor memory compression: NVCache is interesting, but Tensor Memory Compression will be on Ampere, and will most likely use Tensor Cores to compress and decompress items stored in VRAM. This could see a 20-40% reduction in VRAM usage, as more VRAM usage with higher textures in next-gen games and Tensor Memory Compression reduced that VRAM footprint by 20-40%.
- How fast is the GeForce RTX 3090?? Freaks fast according to rumors, with 60-90% more performance than the current Turing-based flagship GeForce RTX 2080 Ti. We could jump this enormous performance into titles of raytracing, but we’ll have to wait a little longer to see how much graphics power NVIDIA craps in these new cards. you can read more about those rumors here.
- Power hungry: In terms of power consumption, GA102 reports 230W – while 24GB GDDR6X (what we should see on the new Ampere-based TITAN RTX) consumes 60W of power. you can read more about it here.
- Production will begin shortly: NVIDIA is reported in the DVT (as Design Validation Test) range of its new GeForce RTX 3000 series graphics cards. Mass production kicks off report in August 2020, with a media event, benchmarks, and more in September 2020 as I predicted many months ago. More about this here.
I’ve already written about rumors of that NVIDIA’s next gen Ampere GPU architecture would be up to 75% faster than GPUs with current gen such as the Turing architecture, right after rumored that Ampere would offer 50% more performance at half the power of Turing. This is very crazy thing right now.
Not only that, but we have something called specifications on the designated GeForce RTX 3080 and GeForce RTX 3070 graphics cards, both of which will be powered by NVIDIA’s new Ampere GPU architecture.
We’ve heard that before Ampere would offer 50% more performance at half the power of Turing, who sent the hairs on my neck. Better yet, you can read about the leaky specs on the proposed Ampere-based GeForce RTX 3080 and GeForce RTX 3070 here.
Read more:
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3000 series announcement announced for September 9th
- NVIDIA stops reporting GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER graphics card
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti: rumored launch September 17th
- AMD Big Navi: 5120 streaming processors plagued RDNA 2’s flagship
- AMD Radeon Instinct MI100 Acturus placed, NVIDIA Ampere Destroyer ?!
- GeForce RTX 3090: 50% faster than RTX 2080 Ti in early benchmarks
- NVIDIA A100 Almost benchmarked, is now the ‘fastest GPU ever recorded’
- Yeah, NVIDIA should release GeForce RTX 3000 series in September
- AMD Big Navi ‘NVIDIA Killer’ flagship card has 16 GB of memory
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 rumored: 20% faster than GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
- The next-gen Ampere DLSS 3.0 from NVIDIA could work on ANY game that uses TAA
- AMD is aiming for Big Navi launch for November as ‘show of strength’ for RDNA 2
- NVIDIA’s next-gen Ampere GeForce RTX 30 series: new 12-pin PCIe power
- AMD’s next-gen RDNA 2 rumored: 40-50% faster than GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
- NVIDIA stops making RTX 20 series, disasters after GeForce RTX 30 series
- GeForce RTX 3060 should cost $ 300- $ 400, here are some cool specs
- NVIDIA bundles Death Stranding with GeForce RTX graphics cards
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, RTX 3070 rumored specs: two sub $ 500 cards
- Do you want the next-gen Ampere GPU from NVIDIA now? You can have it … for $ 12,500
- NVIDIA’s Ampere GeForce RTX rumored: built on Samsung 8nm, not TSMC 7nm
- Say hello to the ASUS GeForce RTX 3080 Ti ROG STRIX, maybe
- NVIDIA’s new A100 PCIe accelerator: 40GB HBM2e memory, PCIe 4.0 tech
- This new leak of GeForce RTX 3090 has it at 26% faster than RTX 2080 Ti
- New GeForce RTX 3090 Leaks: 12GB GDDR6X at Crazy 21Gbps
- GeForce RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 rumored that ‘traversal coprocessor’ would pack
- The next-gen GeForce RTX 3080, RTX 3090 from NVIDIA to enter production shortly
- GeForce RTX 3090: GA102 consumes 230W, 24GB GDDR6 consumes 60W power
- NVIDIA rumored to use HUGE cooling pad on GeForce RTX 3080
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 cooler: rumored to cost $ 150 on its own
- GeForce RTX 3090 rumored: 24GB GDDR6X, would destroy RTX 2080 Ti
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 rumored: up to 60-90% faster than RTX 2080 Ti
- Check out these amazing renderers from NVIDIA’s next-gen GeForce RTX 3080
- This may be our first image of the GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card
- AMD and NVIDIA to launch both GPUs in September 2020
- NVIDIA is likely to drop the Tesla brand, too close to Elon Musk’s Tesla
- NVIDIA amps up battle against COVID-19 with Ampere-based supercomputer
- NVIDIA DGX A100: 8 x A100 Ampere GPUs, AMD CPU, 15TB NVMe SSD
- NVIDIA Ampere A100 specs: 54 billion transistors, 40GB HBM2, 7nm TSMC
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