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JEMC on 11 November 2017
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hinch said:
JEMC said:
^ For the enterprise/supercomputers market, maybe. I doubt they'll reach the consumer market before 2019 when Volta still hasn't done it.

It might be the other way round. Volta staying enterprise and Ampere for the consumer devices.

Ampere could be a stripped down Volta, designed for gaming/mining performance and Volta for big data crunching (servers, AI etc) with its tensor cores. 

We will see early next year.. Want to see how well the GTX 2070/2080 performs.

Possible but, imho, doubtful. Volta can be rolled into consumer products by stripping it from all those tensor blocks it has for compute tasks and pairing it with GDDR5X or 6.

After all, if they can't bring Volta down to the consumer level, they can simply launch a Pascal refresh on a smaller node with faster clocks and still reign over AMD... unless Navi proves to be a surprise hit. That's what they did with Kepler (even without a new node) and it worked really well for them.



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